Stupid question: would it be possible to write {{bio}} so that you could use:
{{bio|Q12345678}}
and have the template pull out all the data for Q12345678 rather than
the linked page? If so that would seem to handle this particular
problem...
Andrew.
On 15 September 2014 17:05, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Permanently looming above us:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Filling_red_links_with_Wikidata
>
> Thomas Douillard, 06/09/2014 12:51:
>> One other solution could be to allow to associate items to yet non
>> existing articles to "reserve" them, allow redlinks into the Wikidata
>> interwiki list ?
>
> This is something I've been wondering about as well. Once {{bio}} on
> it.wiki fetches data from Wikidata (sorry, always the same example!), I
> could produce a decent stub just by pasting "{{bio}}" in a red link,
> (preview and) continue from there.
> Currently, however, I'd have to create a placeholder page, associate it
> to the Wikidata item, see what happened, continue from there; or pretend
> Wikidata doesn't exist, do useless manual business as usual, let a bot
> clean up the excess work.
> A middle way is to let me associate the page *while* creating it, so
> that I can preview.
>
> Nemo
>
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