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Bug 45849 - Property type for referencing a page on Wikipedia
Property type for referencing a page on Wikipedia
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
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Reported: 2013-03-07 16:05 UTC by jeblad
Modified: 2013-11-04 14:46 UTC (History)
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Description jeblad 2013-03-07 16:05:16 UTC 
There should be a way to reference a single page on Wikipedia. The most important use case is for giving a reference for some kind of information, where the information exist on Wikipedia but another source is not known for the moment or can't easily be stripped out from Wikipedia.

The value type should probably be able to point to other projects than Wikipedia, by giving a prefix. For example "w:en:Oslo" could point to the article about Oslo on the English Wikipedia, while "mw:Extension:Wikibase" points to the page about Wikibase on Mediawiki.org.

The implementation would be very close to whats done for the type "Commons media file".
Comment 1 Nikola Smolenski 2013-03-07 16:17:37 UTC 
A single page and a single revision of it.

But is there any idea yet on how is referencing in general going to look like? Whatever system is made could also be reused for Wikipedia.
Comment 2 jeblad 2013-03-07 16:30:34 UTC 
Referencing can use all types, but I guess it will usually be an URL. I would like a quote with an URL where that quote should exist, but I'm probably the only one fiddling with such things.
Comment 3 Lydia Pintscher 2013-11-04 14:46:25 UTC 
I actively want to discourage sourcing from Wikipedia.
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