Hi, See you see a fix that could be made for this "user issue" rather than
"bug"?
The fix required is: when rendering **history** states of pages, rendering contemporary
history state of any {{transclusions}}, rather than latest state, as happens now. This
would make a lot of editors happier, and some less concerned about "banning" the
use of inter-article transcludes.
See below at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Transclusio…, and
other links contained.
Best, Trev M.
== Transclusion History ==
See
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Summary_style#Problems_with_par…
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Sometimes editors involved in disputes want to see an article as it was a while ago, and
then look at the changes made. If the article transcludes content from another article,
they will see the old version of the article but the current version of the transcluded
content, which is confusing. Is there a way in which they could see the old version of the
article with the transcluded content as of the date/time that version was created? This
could be a big improvement. Thanks, [[User:Aymatth2|Aymatth2]] ([[User
talk:Aymatth2|talk]]) 23:28, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
:ItÅås not possible as the software is currently written, though I agree it would be a
useful feature. Designing a gadget which re-parses from old template revisions using
javascript and the API might be (remotely) feasible (albeit madnessyet IÅåm not above
attempting a proof-of-concept if/when I find the time). Å\[[User talk:AoV2|AoV©]] 14:21,
21 March 2010 (UTC)
It doesn't seem that difficult (easy for me to say). The change would be: "when
transcluding content into a historical view of a page, select the most recent version of
the source page that was created no later than the date of the target page". That way
the historical view would show the page as it really looked at that time, rather than a
jumble of past and present. Many editors would be deeply grateful for the improvement!
[[User:Aymatth2|Aymatth2]] ([[User talk:Aymatth2|talk]]) 16:13, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
*Posting a summary of this and links at the
'''bugzilla.wikimedia.org''' mailing list, see what interest
appears from those with their finger on the wiki software pulse. <span
style="font-family: 'Brush script MT',
cursive;font-size:1.5em;vertical-align:middle;"> [[User:Trev M| Trev M ]]
[[User_talk:Trev_M| ~ ]]</span> 19:47, 21 March 2010 (UTC)