On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > 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}}
This is exactly what Wikidata is for. And the reason you can't access data from arbitrary items right now isn't some weird security reason. It is not being able to purge pages as data changes. The mechanism for that is being rolled out now but will still take a while to get to your wiki. You want to track https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49930 Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
