The generic "fetch property values" that I wrote is capable of replacing #property in a more intelligent manner - documented at: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: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.--RexxOn 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?
>
> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noimage.svg
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.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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