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== Src ==<br />
A citation that is also structured data.<br />
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Each <code>{{tl|Src}}</code> renders a small marker the reader can follow, '''and''' records the citation as a Semantic MediaWiki subobject. The second half is the point: rendering a footnote is easy, but asking ''"every claim on this wiki attested by somebody who was actually on the record"'' needs structure behind the marker.<br />
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=== Source types ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Type !! Parameters !! Cites<br />
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| <code>video</code> || <code>cid=</code>, <code>t=</code> || A specific moment in an archived video<br />
|-<br />
| <code>edit</code> || <code>oldid=</code>, <code>by=</code> || A particular revision, by someone in a position to know<br />
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| <code>chain</code> || <code>tx=</code> ''or'' <code>block=</code> || An on-chain fact<br />
|-<br />
| <code>testimony</code> || <code>by=</code>, <code>rel=</code> || First-party assertion<br />
|-<br />
| <code>recording</code> || <code>page=</code>, <code>label=</code> || A release or recording as a whole<br />
|-<br />
| <code>published</code> || <code>url=</code>, <code>title=</code> || An ordinary off-wiki source<br />
|}<br />
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=== Usage ===<br />
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<pre><br />
He tunes down a half step for this one.{{Src|video|cid=Bafybei...|t=14:32}}<br />
He's played the Loar since 2019.{{Src|testimony|by=JMyles|rel=participant}}<br />
The token was minted before the festival.{{Src|chain|block=25763516}}<br />
Corrected by someone who was there.{{Src|edit|oldid=5401|by=JMyles}}<br />
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=== On timecodes ===<br />
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<code>t=</code> accepts <code>14:32</code>, <code>1:02:03</code>, or a bare number of seconds. Following a video citation lands on the Release page with the player already seeked to that second, via the <code>#t=</code> fragment that the HLS player gadget reads.<br />
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An unparseable <code>t=</code> degrades to a citation without a timecode rather than breaking the page — a typo should not cost the reader the sentence.<br />
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=== Why not <nowiki><ref></nowiki> ===<br />
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A named <code><nowiki><ref></nowiki></code> is byte-identical everywhere it is reused, so it cannot express ''"this video at 14:32"'' and ''"the same video at 21:07"''. Resource-plus-offset is the ordinary case on PickiPedia, not an edge case.<br />
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=== Testimony is a first-class type ===<br />
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<code>testimony</code> exists so that ''"this is my band and I know we're playing Bob's next Tuesday"'' can be recorded honestly as what it is, rather than either excluded or dressed up as a published source. Its weight comes from ''who'' said it — which is what the trust graph is for.<br />
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=== See also ===<br />
* [[Module:Src]] — the implementation<br />
* [[Template:HLSVideo]] — embeds a player, optionally at a given moment<br />
* [[Property:Has source type]]<br />
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[[Category:Citation templates]]<br />
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