Author: Gerard.meijssen
Description:
entering a full url when specifying a site link, instead of picking the page title from a suggestion list will save a lot of hassle ..
At the moment I use http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9458#sitelinks and remove http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/ to get the specific value I need.
Thanks,
Gerard
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | |
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| Invalid | None | T70903 [Story] Implement new SiteLink UI | ||
| Open | None | T112241 [Story] Using copy-pasted source URLs while editing Wikidata items | ||
| Open | None | T49983 sitelinks ui: accept a link instead of a value from the dropdown box | ||
| Resolved | thiemowmde | T144310 [Task] Select site in siteselector based on pasted subdomain | ||
| · · · |
So instead of picking a siteid and article name combination you could simply specificy a link such as 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple' and wikidata would convert that into 'enwiki' and 'Apple'?
Nice idea for an enhancement, I like such features. It would be fairly easy to do with a single regular expression. Basically assuming every site link follows the enwiki URL schema (which it does, but ...).
The right way to do it would be to iterate all of [[w:d:Special:Interwiki]]. We do have mw.config.get( 'wbSiteDetails' ) and could try to iterate it and use it to parse what the user entered. Can we rely on this and use it?
I've had a discussion about this with the designers. Let's talk before we move forward with this please.