Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24531999-20160403193123/@comment-24473195-20160409193537

Retrieving data from another page is possible without any special jquery or JS. This can be done using either very complicated templates, or just Lua. Generally speaking the pages are stored in something like a data module, see w:c:dev:Module:Country/data, and then retrieved using the main module (w:c:dev:Module:Country).

Retrieving data from a page in the main namespace is generally a bad idea because a random user can change or break the table, and cause errors elsewhere. Javascript is also not rendered on mobile devices, and that limits that number of people that can see and help improve that content.