https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35363
--- Comment #3 from drfree <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > > The ability > > to link directly to that sentence is an essential first step in creating a > > Semantic Wikipedia. Currently no facility exists to point to that specific > > information. > > Couldn't you use the Wikipedia API and take the first delivered paragraph? > I don't yet understand the reasoning for this request. My objective for the request is to be able to open a small window (or frame) to present to the users of my website a precise definition or description of a topic mentioned on one of my pages. My goal is that the user be able to view that definition in the context of my discussion of that topic. Opening the definition in a new window or tab (although the user would have the option of doing so) would defeat the goal of seeing the definition in context. The closest I have been able to get to that first sentence using the Wiki API has been to attach the standard URN "#firstHeading" to the URL. When the result is displayed in the 1" panel I've allocated for such displays, half the space is taken up by the title and Wikipedia's brand. If there were a standard identifier (such as, for example, "#firstSentence") that pointed to what Wikipedia already regards as a significant element of its object model, the use would be able to see twice as much of that important paragraph. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
