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.
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