Brion-
Fred Bauder wrote:
I have edited
Booksources and put a functioning link in that searchs ABE
for ISBN. It links to advanced search page and is also functional for
searching for books without ISBNs. However the ISBN link does not reach the
edited page unless it has a valid ISBN. Please consider allowing access to
the page using some link like ISBN n/a
[[Special:Booksources]] should do it.
Hmm, for some reason this doesn't display the
custom text unless an ISBN
has been given. Erik?
Most of the URLs on [[Wikipedia:Book sources]] stop working properly if
they do not get passed the MAGICNUMBER variable. Therefore the
[[Wikipedia: Book sources]] text is only displayed when an ISBN number is
passed, otherwise the hardcoded text is used. An alternative would be an
additional dynamically fetched page like [[Wikipedia:Book links]] for
linking to booksellers without specifying an ISBN. My preference would be
to hide the special page from the list of special pages, since I do not
see why a static list should be handled in the form of a special page at
all (and why it should deserve exposure in our list of special pages);
[[Wikipedia:Book links]] could be created by anyone so inclined without it
being dynamically fetched.
Regards,
Erik