Hi all! I would like to share an editing technique that's in use in the Spanish Wikipedia and I think should be in use everywhere.
It's basically a template https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantilla:Extracto that transcludes the introduction (or any section) of an article into another article.
So for example, the Spanish article on Science https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciencia transcludes the introductions of the more specific articles on the scientific method, the history of science, scientific laws, etc. Check it out! https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciencia?action=edit
Currently there're 375 articles using excerpts https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor%C3%ADa:Wikipedia:Art%C3%ADculos_con_extractos and counting, on topics as diverse as science, philosophy, logic, history, countries, sports and TV shows.
Excerpts could save tremendous amount of work, avoid inconsistencies throughout the encyclopedia, funnel collaboration, improve content through the merging process that the use of the template leads to, and other benefits.
I created an English version of the template https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Excerpt but I never got to use it. There's also some English documentation on the technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cascading_content, for anyone interested.
Kind regards,
Felipe Schenone, 06/09/19 02:11:
It's basically a templatehttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantilla:Extracto that transcludes the introduction (or any section) of an article into another article.
Thank you. I do like content transclusion; it's used most often in Wikibooks and Wikisource I'd say. On the (English) Wikipedia, most talk about content transclusion has revolved around portals (how to make sure they add value and remain fresh without having an enormous maintenance cost).
Federico
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