Best way to cite the source of WikiText snippets?

Si

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Jul 28, 2021, 9:09:59 AM7/28/21

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Much of my wiki is made up of snippets of WikiText that I have taken from other sources, in particular public wikis (e.g. https://zettelkasten.sorenbjornstad.com/) and from threads in this group.

I want to make sure that I keep track of where I get these snippets from for two reasons:

to make my life easier if I ever want to look at the original source of some code in my wiki.
in case I ever publish something online, I want to ensure that I have property attributed the original author of any code that I use.

So I'm just wondering what is the best practice here? I can't link to the source within the text because most of the time we are talking about system tiddlers, but at the same time using a "source" field does not make it clear exactly which part of the source came from where.

Example: I have a style-sheet tiddler with loads of rulesets, and just one of those many rulesets was taken from Soren's wiki, and it's not clear to me what the best way to keep track of this is.

Soren Bjornstad

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Jul 28, 2021, 9:13:56 AM7/28/21

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I use a comment with the link:

Currently you can't use comments until you reach the end of the pragmas in a tiddler, but that's slated to be fixed in 5.2.0.

Si

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Jul 28, 2021, 3:56:37 PM7/28/21

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Thanks Soren, I will do that!

TW Tones

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Jul 29, 2021, 3:08:51 AM7/29/21

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Si,

I have a field I create in any tiddler relating to discussions we have here in GG. In edit mode I just create the "discussion" field and past the link to the GG item.

I have a small viewTemplate that displays the link as "discussion" at the bottom of any tiddler found like that.

In the near future I intend provide an opportunity to drop one or more links on a tiddler and create one or more fields with the suffix "-link", then the caption for such a link can be anything before the "-link" in 5.2.0 and its new field naming freedom.

Your stylesheet example however may best be handled using Sorens suggested comments areas. Keep in mind you can build a way to find and display such comments from any tiddler especially if you make a de facto standard;

eg

Then you can search for tiddlers with lines beginning "<!-- source" use the name with the url and follow this with the notes.

To simplify the search you could add a field called contains-sources=yes

You could even display this At the bottom of each tiddler containing such comments.