Reference Wikipedia in Obsidian
Hotkeys
Three are currently set.
Quick verdict
None are perfect. I prefer #2, but it doesn't work for anything but English except the language is force changed (see 2a below). 🤷
1. Insert Link Text and Link
- Works for any language
- Prefix
zh:
fr:
, defaulten:
- Prefix
#resultof/command Wikipedia Search: Search Article > menu > enter zh:唐裝
2. Insert the first paragraph for the search term
- English only
- Note that the first word repeats the search term
tangzhuang
, in lowercase, followed by>
and then the actual Wikipedia, unbolded.
#resultof/command get wikipedia for search term > menu > enter tangzhuang
tangzhuang> Tangzhuang (Chinese: 唐裝; pinyin: Tángzhuāng; lit. 'Chinese suit'), sometimes called Tang suit,: 50 is a kind of Chinese jacket with Manchu origins and Han influences, characterized with a mandarin collar closing at the front with frog buttons. It is an updated form of the Qing magua, itself a more fashionable adaptation of the riding jacket once worn by Manchu horsemen. Nowadays, the tangzhuang is one of the main formal clothing worn by Chinese men on various occasions; overseas Chinese also wear it as a form of fashion or to express their cultural identity.: 191
2a. Insert the first paragraph for the search term
- *(Onetime) force change the community plugin
(Obsidian) Wikipedia
settings to usezh
language prefix (default isen
) - Note that the quoted result is always the default in Simplified Chinese (唐装...) despite the search term being Traditional Chinese
唐裝
. At least, using TC search term works. - Despite the now
zh
setting, the #1 methodctrl-shift-W
search can still useen:
to find English articles, and insert the link. All is not lost.
#resultof/command get wikipedia for search term > menu > enter 唐裝
唐装,台灣又稱漢衫、唐山衫,是清代至現代华人的一種傳統服飾。特点是立领及盘扣,1950年代之後,一些唐裝又吸收了一些西式裁剪的特点,例如立體剪裁、在肩膀部接袖等。港澳、台灣所指的唐裝包括男裝的長衫,男女通用的對襟衫、大襟衫等等。
3. Insert the first paragraph for the current note title
- English only
- Same as #2 above except the exact casing of the note title is used, without the actual Wikipedia title. Compare the following two, where the difference is in the casing of the note's title.
#resultof/command get wikipedia for active note title Tangzhuang
Tangzhuang (Chinese: 唐裝; pinyin: Tángzhuāng; lit. 'Chinese suit'), sometimes called Tang suit,: 50 is a kind of Chinese jacket with Manchu origins and Han influences, characterized with a mandarin collar closing at the front with frog buttons. It is an updated form of the Qing magua, itself a more fashionable adaptation of the riding jacket once worn by Manchu horsemen. Nowadays, the tangzhuang is one of the main formal clothing worn by Chinese men on various occasions; overseas Chinese also wear it as a form of fashion or to express their cultural identity.: 191
#resultof/command get wikipedia for active note title tangzhuang
tangzhuang (Chinese: 唐裝; pinyin: Tángzhuāng; lit. 'Chinese suit'), sometimes called Tang suit,: 50 is a kind of Chinese jacket with Manchu origins and Han influences, characterized with a mandarin collar closing at the front with frog buttons. It is an updated form of the Qing magua, itself a more fashionable adaptation of the riding jacket once worn by Manchu horsemen. Nowadays, the tangzhuang is one of the main formal clothing worn by Chinese men on various occasions; overseas Chinese also wear it as a form of fashion or to express their cultural identity.: 191