Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Wikisource/improve external link

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improve external link

  • Problem: in italian version it is a problem to make too much link to Wikidata in a single page. But this is necessary to improve te use of Wikisource books out of is ouwn platform: on tablet, pc: The presence of links to Wikidata make the books an hipertext much more usefull.
  • Who would benefit: Every readers
  • Proposed solution: I am not a tecnic so I have only needs e not solutions ;-)
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  • Proposer: Susanna Giaccai (talk) 11:22, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@Giaccai: Can you give specific examples of pages where this is currently a problem ? —TheDJ (talkcontribs) 12:57, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is the only one page with a Lua error: it:s:Ricordi di Parigi/Uno sguardo all’Esposizione. IMHO it's a Lua "not enough memory" issue, coming from Lua exausted space: you can see "Lua memory usage: 50 MB/50 MB" into NewPP limit report. --Alex brollo (talk) 14:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weren't the links to Wikidata to be used only in case of author's names? --Ruthven (msg) 18:45, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No, presently there are tests to link to wikidata other kinds of entities (i.e. locations); wikidata is used to find a link to a wikisource page, or to a wikipedia page, or to wikidata page when both are lacking (dealing with locations, usually the resulting link points to wikipedia). --Alex brollo (talk) 07:17, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I just investigated the error. The "not enough memory" issue is caused by s:it:Modulo:Wl and s:it:Module:Common. @Alex brollo: What is going on is that the full item serialization is loaded into Lua memory twice per link, once by local item = mw.wikibase.getEntity(qid) in s:it:Modulo:Wl and once by local item = mw.wikibase.getEntityObject() in s:it:Module:Common. You could probably avoid both of this calls by relying on the Wikibase Lua functions that are already used s:it:Modulo:Wl and, so, limit a lot the memory consumption of the module. Tpt (talk) 16:08, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Tpt: Thanks! I'll review the code following your suggestions. --Alex brollo (talk) 14:26, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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