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@mikepeel.net> wrote:

On 26 Jul 2017, at 12:06, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> 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.

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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}}.

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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

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