Template talk:MWSD

Speedy deletion

This template was just nominated for speedy deletion. It's not very different from other templates like Template:SOWL. It inserts a reference to the most commonly used Sanskrit dictionary. It's going to be useful for the thousands of India-related articles that include claims about meanings of various Sanskrit words. I've started to slowly take avail of it when cleaning up articles on given names. Uanfala (talk) 18:45, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Cite book?

Jonesey95, why is there a need to be changing from {{cite encyclopedia}} to {{cite book}}? I also don't understand why |chapter-url= was removed. – Uanfala (talk) 17:13, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

A change in the CS1 citation module code was making red error messages appear when there was no article title. {{cite book}} functions just fine with only a book title, and also with a chapter title if one is offered. As for |chapter-url=, it was mapped to the article name, and I thought it would not work after my change. I was wrong. I have restored it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:56, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

URL

The default URL for this doesn't seem very helpful. Ideally this template would link a reader directly to the relevant entry or page of the dictionary, but Koeln.de doesn't provide a way to do so (as far as I know). For example, sanskritdictionary.com and andhrabharati.com/dictionary/sanskrit/index.php both allow a specific entry in the MWSD to be directly linked. – Scyrme (talk) 18:47, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Koeln.de provides a "Cologne record id" for each entry, but I've not found a way to link to an entry from that id. Maybe there is a way, but I've not figured out what it is.

The closest thing to directly linking an entry seems to be linking to the relevant scanned page that has the entry, which definitely is possible through Koeln.de and in-fact isn't an option with those other two sites I linked (above). It seems to be as simple as appending the page number to the end of:

https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/csl-apidev/servepdf.php?dict=MW&page=

Incorporating a link to the page in some way would certainly be helpful if specific entries can't be linked, particularly as the template already accepts |page=. Taking the page for the URL straight from |page= might not be the best way to implement it though, at least not indiscriminately, in-case a range of pages is specified (which would break the URL). – Scyrme (talk) 19:06, 5 April 2023 (UTC)