Hi! I just wanted to say that in principle, I'm a huge fan of this sort of "refactoring" (as developers might call it). However I've often worried about widespread use of it in the article space, because it makes it harder for instance to fix vandalism, and it's more difficult to find attribution of the visible content. I suppose that's a natural consequence, though, and probably doesn't outweigh the benefits.
Kind regards, ~MA On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 4:50 PM Felipe Schenone <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! I would like to share a simple editing technique that's in use on > the Spanish Wikipedia and I think should be in use on other Wikipedias and > Wikimedia projects. > > It's basically a template > <https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantilla:Extracto> that > transcludes the lead section (or any section) of a page into another page. > > So for example, the Spanish article on Science > <https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciencia> transcludes the lead section of > the > more specific articles on the scientific method, the history of science, > scientific laws, etc. Check it out! > <https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciencia?action=edit> > > Currently there're 380 articles using excerpts > < > https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor%C3%ADa:Wikipedia:Art%C3%ADculos_con_extractos > > > and > counting, on topics as diverse as science, philosophy, architecture, > history, countries, sports and TV shows. > > Using excerpts could save tremendous amount of work, avoid inconsistencies, > funnel collaboration, and other benefits. > > I created an English version of the template > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Excerpt> but I never got to use > it. > There's also some English documentation on the technique > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cascading_content>, for anyone > interested. > > Kind regards, > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
