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Bug 21233 - allow or document linking to "Book Sources" with alternate display text
allow or document linking to "Book Sources" with alternate display text
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Special pages (Other open bugs)
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: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-10-22 13:23 UTC by Tom Roche
Modified: 2009-10-22 14:10 UTC (History)
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Description Tom Roche 2009-10-22 13:23:48 UTC
summary: please either 

* enable a user-friendly way to link from an article's text to Book
  Sources such that the link in the article displays the book's title
  (or other text), not the ISBN.

* if already enabled, show how to do so in How_to_edit_a_page

details:

Given an article that mentions a given book, I'd like to better link
from the article to resources about that book. I (et al) have in the
past made links from articles to the Amazon page for a given book.
That allows links that displays a book's title, or other desired
article text, but has obvious problems (e.g. dependence on and
possibly implied preference for a particular vendor). Linking to Book
Sources seems an obvious solution, but its linking currently seems
inflexible. Consider the following usecase:

I read an article about an author that mentions a book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_van_Heerden
> For a time LSU told him not to talk to the media, amid concerns that
> his book The Storm was endangering federal grant money flowing to

The citation above had no link, so I sought to add one. I know the
book's ISBN=0670037818 and I verified that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0670037818

works. So I try editing as follows:

editor
> amid concerns that his book [[0670037818|''The Storm'']] was

fails

editor
> amid concerns that his book [[ISBN 0670037818|''The Storm'']] was

fails

editor
> amid concerns that his book [[BookSources:0670037818|''The Storm'']] was

fails

editor
> amid concerns that his book
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ABookSources&isbn=0670037818
> ''The Storm''] was

Works, so I went with that, despite being IMHO a kludge. Please allow
a (or document existing) better alternative.
Comment 1 enomil 2009-10-22 13:51:24 UTC
You have to write the Namespace for Special:BookSources. This works:

> [[Special:BookSources/0670037818|The Storm]]
Comment 2 Chad H. 2009-10-22 13:53:15 UTC
Resolving WFM.
Comment 3 Tom Roche 2009-10-22 14:10:32 UTC
added documentation to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#booksources

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