Author: mediazilla
Description:
In Wikipedia there is a problem that occurs very often. A user wants to move Article A to Destination B and Copies &
Pastes it, thereby the Version-History goes lost which is an offend to the GNU-FDL (and other license-modells). That
problem has been solved technically, the "move"-feature was introduced that also moves the version history etc.
My idea now is, that {{subst:}} should do the same, let me explain why:
If often occurs that a passage from one article has to be moved to another article. At the time you have to copy (or
cut) that passage and paste it into the other article. If the passage is long enough that it can be protected this
will be the same offend to the GNU-FDL as the above. Most users don't know about this, even if they are aware of the
problem as mentioned above. The solution to the "skilled" user is to add a note where he got it into the "summary /
sources" what-youve-done-version summary, linking the article where he got it via a wiki link (this is possible). But
that's a bit annoying :)
The more important thing is that if you include something via subst: basically the same problem occurs, but here most
of the users are even more unaware as {{subst:}} is a part of MediaWiki (or WIkipedia for them) and it is not believed
to produce licensing-breaking situations.
So my feature-request is that {{subst:}}-includings automatically add an additional explanation to the
version-history, auto linking where it was substituted from.
To be usefull {{subst:}} needs to be able to include other pages partly, for example via "article#section". Example:
<Page A>
C
ccc
D
ddd
</Page A>
<Page B>
{{subst:Page_A#C}}
</Page B>
so Page B will be: "ccc"
(i've testet this in current [[:de:Benutzer:Warhog/Sandbox|German Wikipedia]] where it does not work, so i guess it
isnt implemented yeat (i'm speaking of the {{subst:article#section}}-behaviour}}.
I've filed the bug having high priority as i believe that this is an important feature. (Bug #6785)
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement