//A suggested [[wiki:requirements-commons|requirement]] for a living knowledge commons wiki//

====== Drag and drop from other pages ======

This may not be in the [[wp>Minimum viable product|MVP]]. If possible, carry over provenance information along with selected text, so that is automatically included in the wiki you are creating. For browsers displaying local files, allow only relative links.

===== Why is this desirable? =====

This goes along with [[author attribution]] tracking. As there, the easier it is to do, the more likely people are to do it, and therefore to allow the system to track attribution easily.

===== How it could work, and issues =====

I don’t know whether selecting text from a browser automatically includes URL information or not. If not, then perhaps all distributed wiki sites could include that in the client-side code? I would not include editing history with this. Editing history can be kept at the source server.

In principle, I would guess this would depend on the [[wp>Document Object Model|DOM]].

===== Evaluation, or existing implementations =====

**Fedwiki** allows something similar, but its document model is incompatible with the DOM on the rest of the web.