Tim Starling wrote:
A lot of bible references don't have a link at all. Maybe we could add a magic link feature, like we have for RFC and PMID. Then whenever someone types something that looks like a bible verse reference in plain text, MediaWiki would automatically convert it to a link. For cultural neutrality it would obviously have to be internationalised and support a number of other religious texts. Not impossible though.
The technical hurdles are undoubtedly less onerous than the socio-cultural ones. For the English Bible agreement on one version would be tough. There are other situations where the desired version may be very specific.
Wikisource also hosts the Qur'an.
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