"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@culture-libre.org
> To: wikidata-l@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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