Thanks, Rexx, that is very helpful!
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:28 PM, rexx rexx@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
The generic "fetch property values" that I wrote is capable of replacing #property in a more intelligent manner - documented at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Wikidata
For simple cases though, #property will work - for example if you paste the following into any section of an article and **preview** it, it will return the image from Wikidata:
{{#if: {{#property:p18}} | [[File:{{#property:p18}}|thumb]] |}}
Similarly, in an infobox, just using |image = {{#property:p18}} will work fine.
However, Wikidata can store multiple image filenames, so the question is: how do you want to deal with those cases?
Building a Lua call to return an image or something like Noimage.svg is a trivial job : I've made a demo module at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Sandbox/RexxS/Images
If you paste {{#invoke:Sandbox/RexxS/Images|getImage}} into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka and preview it you'll see "Kafka portrait.jpg"
If you paste {{#invoke:Sandbox/RexxS/Images|getImage}} into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangthwaite and preview it you'll see " Noimage.svg"
Obviously calls can be buried inside templates to hide them from editors - either an infobox or create a template to make the image as a thumb outside of an infobox, etc.
-- Rexx
On 3 September 2014 12:42, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 3 September 2014 04:51, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
I would like the same sort of thing for use on the English Wikipedia for pictures, so for example if you link to the Wikidata item image
property and
this is filled with a value, it will present the image that is on
Wikidata,
and if not, will present an alternate such as [1]. Has anyone built
such a
thing?
No, but people have written templates that pull in other Wikidata values, so it's certainly possible.
I'm blind-copying this to someone who may be able to help.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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