https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21233
Summary: allow or document linking to "Book Sources" with
alternate display text
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Special pages
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
summary: please either
* enable a user-friendly way to link from an article's text to Book
Sources such that the link in the article displays the book's title
(or other text), not the ISBN.
* if already enabled, show how to do so in How_to_edit_a_page
details:
Given an article that mentions a given book, I'd like to better link
from the article to resources about that book. I (et al) have in the
past made links from articles to the Amazon page for a given book.
That allows links that displays a book's title, or other desired
article text, but has obvious problems (e.g. dependence on and
possibly implied preference for a particular vendor). Linking to Book
Sources seems an obvious solution, but its linking currently seems
inflexible. Consider the following usecase:
I read an article about an author that mentions a book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_van_Heerden
> For a time LSU told him not to talk to the media, amid concerns that
> his book The Storm was endangering federal grant money flowing to
The citation above had no link, so I sought to add one. I know the
book's ISBN=0670037818 and I verified that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0670037818
works. So I try editing as follows:
editor
> amid concerns that his book [[0670037818|''The Storm'']] was
fails
editor
> amid concerns that his book [[ISBN 0670037818|''The Storm'']] was
fails
editor
> amid concerns that his book [[BookSources:0670037818|''The Storm'']] was
fails
editor
> amid concerns that his book
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ABookSources&isbn=0670037818
> ''The Storm''] was
Works, so I went with that, despite being IMHO a kludge. Please allow
a (or document existing) better alternative.
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