"Enabling a template inclusion to be automatically rewritten during a save has no
precedent, so it would require a lot of community support to push the feature
through."
"The correct solution would be to change the behavior of the renderer to look for old
versions of templates and data items, but Wikidata wouldn't be pressured to do this
until Wikipedia changed the way it renders templates. To pressure Wikipedia into changing
the way it renders templates you will need more people that want think this feature is
important. The only time I ever look at old versions of articles is when I'm looking
at a change from my watchlist or looking for the most recent change that wasn't
vandalized if I randomly come across vandalism."
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 11:07:21 +0200
From: psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org
To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Page history and properties
Le 2013-04-05 23:19, Michael Hale a écrit :
I'm not saying it is easy to use #property to
refer to a particular
article revision. I'm saying it is impossible and should stay that
way.
As far I understand, I totaly disagree. We have to provide a way to
obtain the page as it was when a user made a commited it. Otherwise you
will provide false attribution statements.
Argumentum ad populum is not an acceptalbe here.
To enable the scenario you describe with wiki
markup syntax would
require something like
{{#property:population|values_revisions=300000000,1739242,280000000,1344282}},
Well, that should obviously be an automaticaly generated things.
Knowing the date of a particular wikipedia revision page, you will also
be able to compute which wikidata revision the proprety call should
return.
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