Templates can pull all the values for parameters from Wikidata, so that
instead of writing the template name and a lot of lines with parameters and
values, you just write {{Infobox city}}. Unfortunately I don't know of any
examples of templates that actually do it, but maybe Wikidata people can
provide some.

As a temporary step to that direction, I am proposing to make translating
articles with templates easier in the framework of ContentTranslation, with
possible help from Wikidata. There is a discussion about it on Wikidata-L
right now:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/thread.html

I wish I could say more...


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2015-03-04 15:36 GMT+02:00 Petr Bena <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry, I know I asked about this thing recently, but I can't remember
> what the outcome was.
>
> I know it's currently not possible to create cross wiki templates, but
> is there any plan to implement this feature? For example pages like
> http://enwp.org/Linux contains "Latest version" and probably many
> other pages reference this latest version. Not only on english
> wikipedia, but many other wikis as well.
>
> We have the people to update all wikis when new version is out, but we
> don't have them for every piece of software on the planet, so having a
> central template that would contain DATA * that could be accessed
> anywhere would be nice.
>
> * Now why I highlighted DATA? Because I was thinking that project
> called "wikidata" would actually fit this purpose. Unfortunatelly it's
> not. The internal API's of wikidata do not allow for some weird
> security reasons to access data for any article from article with
> different name. So if there was entry in wikidata for linux, and I
> wanted to access property "version" in article [[Linux kernel
> history]] I wouldn't be able to do that. {{FIXME}}
>
> Thanks
>
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