How: URL referencing

At the suggestion of @dazzaji, @yaoe added a bit of code that allows a document to include lists from other web sites.

Yesterday, I used this to make a couple of docs.

We refer to the full URL - and precede the reference with a question mark.

• =?http://mysite.com/someURL

Here are some examples:

• http://commonaccord.org/index.php?action=list&file=/about/URL/

Note that many of these references are to fixed versions of the lists hosted elsewhere. In fact, the reference to the list at Github includes the hash in the URL, and is therefore unfalsifiable. Of course, as soon as we push the doc to Github, we can reference that list, too, by a hash. The entire doc becomes unfalsifiable.

As for the Mediawiki references, those are to the fixed "oldid" versions of the pages. They are as good as (not better than) the reliability of the host. As a practical matter, if the host is independent, the link is likely to be provable.

If you have any concerns, you can, of course, also save a copy of the rendered doc as a blob at the tail end of the list, or put it in a document management system or file drawer.

We'll expand this discussion of versioning and proof in a new wiki page. Soon.