Templates can pull all the values for parameters from Wikidata, so that instead of writing the template name and a lot of lines with parameters and values, you just write {{Infobox city}}. Unfortunately I don't know of any examples of templates that actually do it, but maybe Wikidata people can provide some.
As a temporary step to that direction, I am proposing to make translating articles with templates easier in the framework of ContentTranslation, with possible help from Wikidata. There is a discussion about it on Wikidata-L right now: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/thread.html
I wish I could say more...
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2015-03-04 15:36 GMT+02:00 Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com:
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}}
Thanks
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