Board Thread:Watercooler/@comment-5590118-20150701035141/@comment-24473195-20151004125750

Cqm wrote: If copying modules from wikipedia becomes a thing, I'd be inclined to copy documentation over from the point it was ported, but have a permalink back to the original, i.e. ?oldid=123456 so maintainers can tell what's changed. I'd do the same for the module code itself to be honest. So you mean that we copy the whole module's documentation here based on the revision id? That sounds reasonable, I'm not sure the wayback machine will always work anyway.

The question is where do we actually put the link, in our list of lua modules or in the module documentation page itself, or both?

As far as code is concerned, I typically attribute the code in a revision summary using the revision's old-id. In many cases we have to change the original module so that it works  because of things that Wikia's scribunto version lacks.

It will be interesting if/when we get an API for these infoboxes,  it will make it rather easy to query them and update a lot of information automatically, so we don't have to duplicate documentation or links.