[Bug 7777] New feature idea: Wiki data storage and dynamic table display
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7777
------- Additional Comments From nospam.bugzilla@...
2006-11-01 01:31 UTC -------
That would definitely make it even more useful. Though I can see two disadvantages to a common data centre.
First, it would make it more difficult for a casual editor to see how to change the data.
More importantly, there would be a maintainability issue when changes are made to the data in the common
database.
If someone decides that "goals" is too general and splits the data into "kicked goals", "headbutts",
"penalties",
etc. and they only think that one article uses this data, it could break the tables in other articles that use
this data. If the data and table description are obligatorily in the same page, then the editor will see the
full
effect of their changes right away.
Looking at the problem from a different angle, editors should feel confident that they can make changes
without
breaking something. Otherwise, they might be discouraged from adding useful information.
But on the positive side, it is a very attractive idea to have all this data centralised so that different
pages
(on different subjects, or the same subject in different languages) call the same unique data. So maybe
there is
a way to work around the problems...
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