Template talk:Wikipedia

Extension request

I think this template needs to be extended so a date can be included. For example, under Bywater BASIC, this template reads as follows:

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Bywater_BASIC. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Rosetta Code, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.

What I'd like to see is something that lets users add an optional date that indicates when the WP edits are from, something like this:

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Bywater_BASIC, and the date of the text used is 11 May 2009. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Rosetta Code, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.

...or something like that. I don't know how to do it or I'd do it myself. -- Erik Siers 18:24, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

When someone works on this, note that we nowhere use the second parameter (the language code) any more. The only case where it was present and not the default was to an article (in German) that happened to be less informative than the English version. –Donal Fellows 02:49, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

I vote keep the language parameter; it seems potentially-useful to me. -- Erik Siers 22:11, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Why Wikia link?

Unrelated to the above, is there a reason the GNU FDL text links to Wikia, rather than the FSF? The FDL is here, and I think it would make better sense to link directly to it; I'm just wondering if there's a reason to leave it as-is. -- Erik Siers 18:24, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

I never noticed it. I didn't create the template. Fixed. --Michael Mol 00:35, 16 January 2011 (UTC)