Last modified: 2011-04-14 15:11:19 UTC
Hi, Please See Bug #6785 and Bug #6786 it will help you understanding for what this here is good for. If you've read the bugs mentioned above than you might now also think that it would be very usefull to have a tool that does the "cut and paste" for you when moving sections of pages. The exact functionality i'm thinking of: {{grab:Article#Section}} will be substituted with the source-section from the source-article. Than that section will be removed from the source-article. As like Bug #6786 {{grab:}} should also automatically add version-history informations to comply with the recommendations of the GNU-FDL. It logically would have to add such information to both articles as both are changed. There is one technical thing about i'm worrying.. is the summary for what you edit large enough to store maybely large informations about {{grab:}} using? On the side of the page where the text is cutted that's no problem as it will surely be multiple edits (by wikipedia itself, i guess there needs to be a system-account when or something like that, a notice that this was grapped by the software itself... the changing user of course would be the author of that version-change.). But the page where you use {{grab:}} might not be able to store that information if you use {{grab:}} very often (for example when you grab 3 paragraphs).
i've filed a new bug for my worried.. would also be a nice enhancement independently from this here. See Bug #6788
The exact syntax used isn't really relevant to the point of this bug, I think, so I've changed the summary to emphasize the goal over the method (and removed the dependencies, which are potentially related but not necessarily relevant once you view this as just moving sections and not as any particular implementation of moving sections).
