Good work with the person infobox. On 26 July 2017 at 16:45, Robin Owain <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have the new Template:Infobox_person/Wikidata on around 150 articles > on cywiki, which was added a few days agor. See: > > https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley > > and it works a treat; Mike Peel helped us a few weeks ago. Thanks > Mike! Mike's South Pole Telescope was our first, which we copied on cywiki > following last year's AGM at Birmingham. > > The automatic taxo box is also on all 10,000 living bird articles and > another 7,000 on female biogs, thanks to our wiki group at my home town of > Ruthin. Altogether there are 17,000 articles taking live feed from > Wikidata. And then of course we have Wikidata Lists (kept up to date using > Lysteria) in mainspace articles... > > Robin > > On 26 July 2017 at 16:09 Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 26 Jul 2017, at 12:06, Gordon Joly <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 26/07/17 09:07, geni wrote: > > Template vandalism on. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Official_URL > > If you are still getting issues purge the page. > > Thanks. Now fixed. > > ***** > > This template is for use in infoboxes. It links to property P856 > (official website) at Wikidata to retrieve the website and displays in > the same way as {{URL}}. > > ***** > > There has been some discussion on Facebook (and elsewhere?) about the > current trend to feed data from Wikidata directly in Wikipedia's Infoboxen. > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/ > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_person/Wikidata > > Usage: > > {{infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}} > > I have suggested on Facebook that this might be putting a Infobox > editing beyond the reach of certain people, like me. I have yet to start > editing Wikidata. > > If you can figure out how to edit infoboxes at the moment, with all of the > wikicode that's needed, then you'll find editing them through Wikidata a > bit simpler. ;-) In the long run, hopefully Wikidata editing can be done > directly from Wikipedia. > > But for my canonical example of a Wikidata infobox: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope > Have a look at how the data is stored at: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1513315 > Hopefully you'll agree it's clearer than wikicode, and the way to edit the > info is a bit clearer. > > Thanks, > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > -- Richard Nevell Project Coordinator Wikimedia UK - sign up to our newsletter <http://eepurl.com/cnYOw5> +44 (0) 20 7065 0921 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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