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It'd be interesting if Wikipedia had a git-style interface where someone can just "git push" and hundreds of articles get updated (any one that mentions The Que

• raybb 4y ago
  That would be pretty cool. As far as I know the closest they have are bots but the bots mostly do super simple things. Then other less common tasks people will write their own little tool for to go manually fixup all the instances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots
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• mormegil 4y ago
  It's not a problem of git, but a problem of abstraction and modularization, isn't it. In principle, this is partly doable with Wikidata (or old-school templates), e.g. some information in infoboxes and country flags are retrieved from a central location and by editing this single location, you'd change the relevant information on all pages simultaneously. However, use of such abstractions is fairly limited (especially usage of Wikidata on enwiki), basically country flags and similar are the only such usage, I'd say. In the future, this exact problem is one the primary goals of the Abstract Wikipedia project (see https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia). But again, I don't think enwiki would use this very much, anyway.