On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Sorry, I know I asked about this thing recently, but I can't remember what the outcome was.
I know it's currently not possible to create cross wiki templates, but is there any plan to implement this feature? For example pages like http://enwp.org/Linux contains "Latest version" and probably many other pages reference this latest version. Not only on english wikipedia, but many other wikis as well.
We have the people to update all wikis when new version is out, but we don't have them for every piece of software on the planet, so having a central template that would contain DATA * that could be accessed anywhere would be nice.
- Now why I highlighted DATA? Because I was thinking that project
called "wikidata" would actually fit this purpose. Unfortunatelly it's not. The internal API's of wikidata do not allow for some weird security reasons to access data for any article from article with different name. So if there was entry in wikidata for linux, and I wanted to access property "version" in article [[Linux kernel history]] I wouldn't be able to do that. {{FIXME}}
This is exactly what Wikidata is for. And the reason you can't access data from arbitrary items right now isn't some weird security reason. It is not being able to purge pages as data changes. The mechanism for that is being rolled out now but will still take a while to get to your wiki. You want to track https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49930
Cheers Lydia