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In the interest of keeping different versions of this template/module somewhat synchronised, I've been adding IDs to Wikisource's equivalent of the module and it currently has a lot more than en.wp. I'm not sure if you want any of these but you seem to be omitting the following: China Academic Library & Information System (CALIS, P270), China Biographical Database (CBDB, P497), Digital Library for Dutch Literature (DBNL, P723), Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (PTBNP, P1005), Dutch Nationale Thesaurus Auteursnamen (NTA, P1006), Vatican Library (BAV, P1017), National Library of Israel (NLI, P949), National Library of China (NLC, P1213), Narodowy Uniwersalny Katalog Centralny (NUKAT, P1207), Internet Broadway Database (IBDB, P1220), Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB, P1233), Find a Grave (Grave, P535), Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP, P549), Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD, P650), Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE, P950), National Library of Romania (NLR, P1003), French National Assembly (Sycomore, P1045), and Catholic Hierarchy (CH, P1047). Anyway, if there is any interest, there's a full list here (NB: the template is used for books and subjects too, but they have separate lists) and the code is here. - AdamBMorgan ( talk) 00:48, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
Please see discussion at Template talk:Infobox artist#DAAO record in infobox. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:51, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
I would like to suggest that the EIDR schema is added to the /info/en/?search=Template:Authority_control. EIDR is an industry-standard database (see http://eidr.org/membership/) that might provide a controlled vocabulary for media assets. ISAN is part of many of the cross-referenced IDs. BrillLyle ( talk) 20:57, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
I shall be attending the ORCID Outreach Meeting and Codefest in Chicago on 21-22 May; in part to speak about the use of ORCID in Wikipedia & Wikidata. If anyone has any suggestions or questions, I'll be happy to raise them there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:47, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
In the Roud Folk Song Index, traditional folk songs are given unique identifying numbers. Our articles about these songs are listed at List of folk songs by Roud number. Would anyone be interested in adding this functionality to this template? — Scott • talk 21:41, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I'm wondering if this template be a sensible place to add Scopus author identifiers? See e.g. Template:Scopus. Duncan.Hull ( talk) 12:40, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
A version of this template is now on Wikidata, for use on the user pages of those of you who edit there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:20, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
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lccnLink()
generates an incorrect URL for subject heading IDs which should link to .../subjects/foo.html
instead of .../names/foo.html
.
To fix this, lccnLink()
should become:
function lccnLink( id )
local parts = splitLccn( id )
if not parts then
return false
end
type = parts1 ~= 'sh' and 'names' or 'subjects'
id = parts1 .. parts2 .. append( parts3], '0', 6 )
return '[http://id.loc.gov/authorities/' .. type .. '/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']' .. getCatForId( 'LCCN' )
end
EdwardH
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type
is the name of a built-in function in Lua, which your code would clobber. Please pick a different variable name. Also, make sure you declare it with local before using it to avoid polluting _G. (Instead of posting your fixed function here, edit the one in
the sandbox.)
Jackmcbarn (
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EdwardH
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Discogs is a massive open recorded music database, could it not be added to the AC template much in the same way the much smaller MusicBrainz db has been? Perhaps with the same or similar restrictions on usage as per the AC template help? Jimthing ( talk) 22:43, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
The inclusion of botanical names in this template duplicates that in {{ Botanist}}. Please join discussion of how to resolve this. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:49, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
This template is not displaying, on our mobile site, nor in the new Android app. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:16, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Anyone? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:50, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
What do you think about including Pleiades: [1]? See also someone's note down meta:Talk:Requests for comment/How to deal with open datasets. trespassers william ( talk) 20:32, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
I've just found - and fixed - articles ( George Segal, Illeana Douglas) with ISNI's entered as ORCIDs (or twice, as each). Can we test for and fix this? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:49, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Can anyone help with this, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:04, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
An interesting version of this template is being used on the Russian Wikipedia; for example on [2]. What do folk think of that? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:51, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Can we make this template not display, if there is no data? That way, we could include it in articles and it would magically appear when a value is added to Wikidata. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:44, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
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The requested code has been placed in the sandbox, in this . This request is fairly uncontroversial, given both that no-one has opposed to Andy´s request and that Edgars2007 posted the same request below at #Empty template.-- Snaevar ( talk) 16:13, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Done — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 08:16, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
I think there should be check in module if there is some data to show, so that articles with empty authority control could be tracked down and/or hidden. See this article for example. -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 10:51, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
The markup of the HTTPS link in this template looks confusing. VIAF link is HTTPS and is shown with a lock symbol. WorldCat and MusicBrainz are also HTTPS links BUT NO lock symbol?! Would be nice if somebody could dive into the source code and spot the error? 78.35.214.148 ( talk) 21:54, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
A version of this template is now available, for taxonomic authors, and on user pages, on Wikispecies. As there is not yet any Wikidata integration with that project, values must be entered manually. Please see species:Template:Authority control. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:24, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
There is a field that displays as "(data)" but when you click on it, it shows a 404 error message. It is for the French National Library. If the person is not in the database we need to show nothing, not a link to a 404 message. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 18:07, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
The list of Languages links for this template is very long. As our version provides its two links for more and more authorities, I like it less and less.
Thousands of Norwegian NO.wiki pages transclude template no:Mal:Autoritetsdata. Its display differs radically from ours in handling all of the authority targets as we handle the WorldCat link alone. The ID string is not shown and the authority label, like our 'WorldCat', links to that authority's page for the person rather than to a Wikipedia article about the authority. The Norwegians link only the word 'Autoritetsdata' to an article about it. Example: no:George Orwell#Eksterne lenker.
The French fr:Notices d’autorité (1000s of transclusions) template display suppresses ID strings, as the Norwegian does, but uses full names of the authorities rather than abbreviations, such as 'Bibliothèque du Congrès' rather than 'LCCN'. Example: fr:Jeremy Bentham#Liens externes.
The Greek and Swedish templates (immediately above) follow ours --and the Russian ( discussed above) and the German-- in providing two links for each authority. -- P64 ( talk) 19:38, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Versions of this template are now available in the Greek (el) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias. Both call data from Wikidata, and could use bots to deploy them, subject to local agreement. I can put any interested bot-owners in touch with English-speaking editors on those projects. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:48, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
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Line 298: { 'RID', ' ResearcherID', 0, ridLink },
Replace with { 'RID', ' ResearcherID', 1053, ridLink }, GZWDer ( talk) 06:21, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Please check nclLink(). I don't think you can retrieve the page with the id. -- Kovl ( talk) 06:06, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add OCLC to the authority control template and transclude it from Wikidata? Leutha ( talk) 11:48, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
I think we should add Scopus Author IDs (Wikidata property P1153). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:25, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm trying to configure the Module on Wiki-cy, so as to turn off the Categories with one simple touch of a button. Any ideas please? This is a a short term step until we've worked out how to hide them. Lua certainly complicates things, as this would have been very simple on an ordinary template. Many thanks. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 18:00, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
__HIDDENCAT__
onto the category page. On en.WP, we do this using {{Wikipedia category|hidden=yes}}
. See {{
Wikipedia category}}, and the source of
Category:User pages with ORCID identifiers, for instance.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 21:35, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Where I have been unsuccessful finding a VIAF record, I am looking to utilise "no value" statement. The LUA module isn't coping with "no value" so I am wondering whether we are able to modify the script to manage this circumstance. I am less concerned about the authorities utilised as they can be left empty, however, VIAF is the central coordinating reference. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:11, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
I just disabled the MusicBrainz Wikidata property requirements whitelist. It's too tedious to maintain manually IMO. If anyone disagrees, I'm happy to put it back and discuss this further. Legoktm ( talk) 23:40, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm working with a number of editors on non-English Wikipedias, to have {{ Authority control}} and its sub-templates and module(s) imported into their projects. A couple are getting errors which they can't resolve (they both speak English, thankfully!). Could anyone kindly assist them, if I point them here? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:46, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Now resolved. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:42, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello, using this template in its simple form, allowing it to read from wikidata is terrific. I propose to extend its use to automatically provide categories of birth / death. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the techniques used, so I only give my proposal here. -- FocalPoint ( talk) 16:06, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
User:Magnus Manske has created a new tool which lets you check whether an authority control identifier is used on Wikidata, and thus in Wikipedia (including non-English Wikipedias). I wrote about it in http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/finding-orcid-wikidata-wikipedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:50, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
This Coen brothers article seems to be the only bio of these brothers, so I added two Authority control templates for them. I don't know whether that might not be a problem. There are two redirects from their individual names ( Ethan Coen and Joel Coen), but it seemed even worse to add them to the redirect pages. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 03:14, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that the article on Alpha Phi Omega has an Authority control that has both VIAF and LCCN
Should the Usage table in the doc for the LCCN and VIAF be changed so that they are no longer restricted to people, or is this caused by the fact that there is a book where the organization is listed as an author? Naraht ( talk) 16:49, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
User:Magnus Manske, User:Pigsonthewing: The values in Wikidata are false. The actual value conforms to /[0-9]{15}[0-9X]/ but it is stored with spaces. This is bad for queries. Unfortunately, some people there blocked my fix, and blocked me. John B. Sullivan ( talk) 12:47, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
The OP has been blocked per checkuser. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:05, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Currently the VIAF system links to English Wikipedia. That excludes other Wikipedias. Why is this not done via Wikidata? John B. Sullivan ( talk) 12:49, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
The OP has been blocked per checkuser. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:06, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Where editing was allowed (Wikipedia ... anyone can edit?), I changed the USA bias and put ISNI before LCCN. I could not change
In the module source code:
{ 'LCCN', ' LCCN', 244, lccnLink }, { 'ISNI', ' ISNI', 213, isniLink },
John B. Sullivan ( talk) 13:06, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
User:Pigsonthewing moved ISNI behind LCCN in several places [3], thus, enlarging the cultural bias. Any reason why? John B. Sullivan ( talk) 15:04, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Dear all, there are many more English speaking libraries, even in VIAF there are many more. Singling out the USA-LCCN and put them first IS cultural bias. The ISNI pages are in English language too. John B. Sullivan ( talk) 15:48, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Now mentioned at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering systemic bias#Bias preferring USA based LCCN over ISNI. John B. Sullivan ( talk) 13:19, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Let me see if I have the arguments correctly: on the one side, John B. Sullivan is saying that the ISNI is an international number, while the LCCN is a national number. On the other side, Andy and Robert are saying that the LCCN is more used in English than the ISNI? Is that correct? Are there Wikipedia: Reliable sources that someone can cite that compare them, or is this all personal opinion? -- GRuban ( talk) 14:33, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
The OP has been blocked per checkuser. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:06, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I'm working on authority control on Wikidata and one of the things we've added a lot is RKDartists (P650). It's similar to ULAN and maintained by the Netherlands Institute for Art History. Currently just under 15.000 items on Wikidata have a link and just under 10.000 items are linked to an article here. For the table:
As a link https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/<id> should be used to force the interface language to English. Multichill ( talk) 21:31, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
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Done. Merry Christmas! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:07, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Can the template configured so that the template support Wikidata property P345? — Revi 16:01, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Just wondering if there is a reason why WorldCat doesn't have a link in the template when all the other identifiers do? -- WOSlinker ( talk) 16:57, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
schema:creator < http://viaf.org/viaf/12872178> rdf:type schema:Person schema:familyName "Quedens" schema:givenName "Jens" schema:name "Quedens, Jens" schema:sameAs < http://d-nb.info/gnd/109339878>
On the other hand OCLC 848002910 has a not-so-tidy "experimental" record for an in-progress effort
schema:creator < http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1359428010#Meeting/convention_of_religions_in_india_calcutta_1909> rdf:type bgn:Meeting rdf:type schema:Event schema:name "Convention of Religions in India, Calcutta, 1909."
It is not wrong to have both, it is just that they fill different needs. LeadSongDog come howl! 21:16, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Does anyone here know how to find the WorldCat top page for someone, or multiple people with the same name, without any LCCN? Lacking that, I have added a worldcat search report to section External links with a warning that WorldCat does (or may, if I don't know) report hits for multiple people with the same name. -- P64 ( talk) 17:42, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Have you considered adding a link to the wikidata entry in the Authority control box. This would take a user directly to the source of much of the data used in the box. Please ignore me if this has been discussed before.
Billingd ( talk) 16:43, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Have you considered adding the People Australia identifier (P1315) to the template. This provides a link into the Trove database at the National Library of Australia. I would hope this is in addition to, and before, the older NLA identifier (P409).
Comparing the generated URLs, for Ida Lee we get
Further information on the identifier is available from the NLA
Billingd ( talk) 16:35, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
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Use formatter URL (P1630) for creating the links in a similar fashion as MediaWiki:Gadget-AuthorityControl.js (but in lua instead of js) instead of all the hard coded URLs in link functions. This would likely require some sandbox work to get right. 50.126.125.240 ( talk) 22:30, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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Template:Infobox medical condition has been nominated for merging with Template:Authority control. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Alakzi ( talk) 21:52, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
There is a pending TfD merge proposal involving this template @ Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 February 25#Template:Infobox medical condition. Will someone with the template editor bit please add the required TfD notice template? Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 13:21, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
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Would someone please be able to add "DAAO identifier" ( d:Property:P1707) to the module/template. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:59, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Why don't we add the IMDB and IBDB profile number to the template? Currently it may appear in WIkipedia as a reference or as an external link, and as an external link it may or may not use the standard IMDB or IDBD template. We would then be the primary database that links VIAF to IMDB and IBDB numbers. We would tie together another authoritative source and standardize the display. The links as sources and external links can remain. It should be easy to migrate the numbers from the existing template automatically. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 18:19, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
"We would then be the primary database that links VIAF to IMDB and IBDB numbers." Wikidata evidently hopes to be that database. ISFDB, IMDB, and IBDB identifiers are now within its scope.
I would prefer more progress there (where data entry is not yet the primary need, if i understand correctly, because basic points need resolution first). And someday see a more economical Authority control template message here. -- P64 ( talk) 01:27, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
@ Legoktm, Jackmcbarn, and Tpt: Would one of you mind implementing "no value" in the VIAF identifier component as an acceptable value within the controlling module? It is an accepted value at Wikidata where a tracking date is added. If you are looking for a local page where you can see it in action please see Samuel Dyer. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
If I understand correctly, German DE.wiki tracks such search failures for the value of parameter GND in its Normdaten template de:Vorlage:Normdaten. Having updated several, I initiated one last month: illustration: GNDfehlt; GNDCheck (revision since approved by another editor). The last two parameters report that someone looked and didn't find a GND value on 2015-02-06 (did find only the antepenultimate nameholder). These last three parameters (last and thus easy to find in the illustrated layout that everyone seems to follow) do not affect the template message but they inform editors who read the code. Perhaps they are used to generate some reports too. -- P64 ( talk) 22:02, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
We are still displaying a 404 error to a French database. See Clarence Whitehill, for example. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 19:35, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
How many databases should I be searching in? I see that sometimes the VIAF number forces other database identifiers to display. For other people I have to do a second search in the LCCN database, and then that forced WorldCat to display. What other databases should I be searching? -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 21:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
np-lastname,%20firstname
or viaf-[VIAF cluster number]
--with a notice that WorldCat lists works by distinct people who share the name, if appropriate. Example:
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-macleod,%20iain/ * {{WorldCat id|np-macleod,%20iain|Iain MacLeod}}
generates
Should a maintenance category be added to this template, similar to Category:Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, so editors can review and make the appropriate fixes? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 21:33, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
The BNF parameter is not being imported from Wikidata properly and displays a second time as "(data)". I don't know how the template is importing that parameter, but it should be easy to fix. See Lawrence Kolb -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 23:33, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Please add also the NLA Persistent Identifier ( P1315) to this module. Regards, -- T.seppelt ( talk) 16:29, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Shouldn't the template link to Wikipedia:Authority control instead of Authority control? Erpert blah, blah, blah... 07:08, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
CRISTIN (Current Research Information SysTem in Norway, which also includes the Norwegian Scientific Index) should be added to the template. A person entry (in English) looks like this http://www.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/1/wa/personVis?type=PERSON&pnr=39812&la=en where 39812 is the identifier (in this case, of Edvard Moser). CRISTIN is the major Norwegian documentation system for academic publications of all sorts, and complements BIBSYS which mainly covers books. Bjerrebæk ( talk) 16:33, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
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I would like this Deleted> "For the past twenty years he has been associated with L'abri Fellowship and is currently living and teaching at L'Abri in Huémoz, Switzerland." 2A02:120B:2C7A:90A0:19E4:2BD2:4242:1D2F ( talk) 19:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
{{
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. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. That text is in the
Greg Laughery article (which is not protected), and has been since its creation in 2006.
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{ 'TLS', '
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Change "0" to "1362".
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Some errors found in instances of this template are being discussed at User talk:T.seppelt. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:47, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Can you please add the tracking category for SBN identifiers (i.e. libraries in Italy)?
Category:Wikipedia articles with SBN identifiers
See also the relevant Wikidata item to be connected ( d:Q18174792)
Thanks, best regards, -- Accurimbono ( talk) 10:37, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Already mentioned earlier on this talk page. I think it's time to take the next steps in usage of this authority control template. I see two main steps:
Second part is probably the easiest part. I played around with Autolist2 a bit and got a list of about 50.000 articles that have viaf, but no {{ Authority control}} here. Should the template be added here? Anyone feel like firing up a bot or should I give it a shot?
Moving the data consists of several parts. I'll take {{ Commons category}} as an example, because for that template this has been setup already:
This way it's possible for humans and bots to follow the progress and know what pages/items to work on. I would propose to setup a similar system for this template. The four states we should track with categories: Local, both same, both different, Wikidata. Take for example viaf:
We need to do this for the other types too, but we can just start with a couple. Would love to have a tracker category like Category:Wikipedia articles with authority control completely from Wikidata that would be added when the template doesn't have any local data anymore. Any opinions on this structure? The names of the tracker categories are just suggestions. We can bikeshed about the exact names later ;-) Multichill ( talk) 13:22, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
I think you guys will be interested to know that T.seppelt will be operating Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KasparBot. Please let me know of how the Bot Approval Group could help you further. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:44, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
@
Multichill: In your first post in this section you asked "Should the template be added here?"
. The answer is: "yes, please!"
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
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The equivalent template used in Commons allows automatic localization according to the user's profile. Could that feature be implemented here?
Also, do the Wikipedias in other languages share this template? -- AngelHerraez ( talk) 16:39, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
I followed the template addition instructions on Grand Lodge of Massachusetts; I added an empty parameter version but got nothing at all om preview or display, despite finding both a Wikidata and VIAF entry for it. Has something changed in the formatting? MSJapan ( talk) 19:30, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
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In the interest of keeping different versions of this template/module somewhat synchronised, I've been adding IDs to Wikisource's equivalent of the module and it currently has a lot more than en.wp. I'm not sure if you want any of these but you seem to be omitting the following: China Academic Library & Information System (CALIS, P270), China Biographical Database (CBDB, P497), Digital Library for Dutch Literature (DBNL, P723), Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (PTBNP, P1005), Dutch Nationale Thesaurus Auteursnamen (NTA, P1006), Vatican Library (BAV, P1017), National Library of Israel (NLI, P949), National Library of China (NLC, P1213), Narodowy Uniwersalny Katalog Centralny (NUKAT, P1207), Internet Broadway Database (IBDB, P1220), Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB, P1233), Find a Grave (Grave, P535), Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP, P549), Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD, P650), Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE, P950), National Library of Romania (NLR, P1003), French National Assembly (Sycomore, P1045), and Catholic Hierarchy (CH, P1047). Anyway, if there is any interest, there's a full list here (NB: the template is used for books and subjects too, but they have separate lists) and the code is here. - AdamBMorgan ( talk) 00:48, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
Please see discussion at Template talk:Infobox artist#DAAO record in infobox. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:51, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
I would like to suggest that the EIDR schema is added to the /info/en/?search=Template:Authority_control. EIDR is an industry-standard database (see http://eidr.org/membership/) that might provide a controlled vocabulary for media assets. ISAN is part of many of the cross-referenced IDs. BrillLyle ( talk) 20:57, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
I shall be attending the ORCID Outreach Meeting and Codefest in Chicago on 21-22 May; in part to speak about the use of ORCID in Wikipedia & Wikidata. If anyone has any suggestions or questions, I'll be happy to raise them there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:47, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
In the Roud Folk Song Index, traditional folk songs are given unique identifying numbers. Our articles about these songs are listed at List of folk songs by Roud number. Would anyone be interested in adding this functionality to this template? — Scott • talk 21:41, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I'm wondering if this template be a sensible place to add Scopus author identifiers? See e.g. Template:Scopus. Duncan.Hull ( talk) 12:40, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
A version of this template is now on Wikidata, for use on the user pages of those of you who edit there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:20, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
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lccnLink()
generates an incorrect URL for subject heading IDs which should link to .../subjects/foo.html
instead of .../names/foo.html
.
To fix this, lccnLink()
should become:
function lccnLink( id )
local parts = splitLccn( id )
if not parts then
return false
end
type = parts1 ~= 'sh' and 'names' or 'subjects'
id = parts1 .. parts2 .. append( parts3], '0', 6 )
return '[http://id.loc.gov/authorities/' .. type .. '/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']' .. getCatForId( 'LCCN' )
end
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type
is the name of a built-in function in Lua, which your code would clobber. Please pick a different variable name. Also, make sure you declare it with local before using it to avoid polluting _G. (Instead of posting your fixed function here, edit the one in
the sandbox.)
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Discogs is a massive open recorded music database, could it not be added to the AC template much in the same way the much smaller MusicBrainz db has been? Perhaps with the same or similar restrictions on usage as per the AC template help? Jimthing ( talk) 22:43, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
The inclusion of botanical names in this template duplicates that in {{ Botanist}}. Please join discussion of how to resolve this. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:49, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
This template is not displaying, on our mobile site, nor in the new Android app. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:16, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Anyone? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:50, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
What do you think about including Pleiades: [1]? See also someone's note down meta:Talk:Requests for comment/How to deal with open datasets. trespassers william ( talk) 20:32, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
I've just found - and fixed - articles ( George Segal, Illeana Douglas) with ISNI's entered as ORCIDs (or twice, as each). Can we test for and fix this? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:49, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Can anyone help with this, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:04, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
An interesting version of this template is being used on the Russian Wikipedia; for example on [2]. What do folk think of that? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:51, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Can we make this template not display, if there is no data? That way, we could include it in articles and it would magically appear when a value is added to Wikidata. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:44, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
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The requested code has been placed in the sandbox, in this . This request is fairly uncontroversial, given both that no-one has opposed to Andy´s request and that Edgars2007 posted the same request below at #Empty template.-- Snaevar ( talk) 16:13, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Done — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 08:16, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
I think there should be check in module if there is some data to show, so that articles with empty authority control could be tracked down and/or hidden. See this article for example. -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 10:51, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
The markup of the HTTPS link in this template looks confusing. VIAF link is HTTPS and is shown with a lock symbol. WorldCat and MusicBrainz are also HTTPS links BUT NO lock symbol?! Would be nice if somebody could dive into the source code and spot the error? 78.35.214.148 ( talk) 21:54, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
A version of this template is now available, for taxonomic authors, and on user pages, on Wikispecies. As there is not yet any Wikidata integration with that project, values must be entered manually. Please see species:Template:Authority control. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:24, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
There is a field that displays as "(data)" but when you click on it, it shows a 404 error message. It is for the French National Library. If the person is not in the database we need to show nothing, not a link to a 404 message. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 18:07, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
The list of Languages links for this template is very long. As our version provides its two links for more and more authorities, I like it less and less.
Thousands of Norwegian NO.wiki pages transclude template no:Mal:Autoritetsdata. Its display differs radically from ours in handling all of the authority targets as we handle the WorldCat link alone. The ID string is not shown and the authority label, like our 'WorldCat', links to that authority's page for the person rather than to a Wikipedia article about the authority. The Norwegians link only the word 'Autoritetsdata' to an article about it. Example: no:George Orwell#Eksterne lenker.
The French fr:Notices d’autorité (1000s of transclusions) template display suppresses ID strings, as the Norwegian does, but uses full names of the authorities rather than abbreviations, such as 'Bibliothèque du Congrès' rather than 'LCCN'. Example: fr:Jeremy Bentham#Liens externes.
The Greek and Swedish templates (immediately above) follow ours --and the Russian ( discussed above) and the German-- in providing two links for each authority. -- P64 ( talk) 19:38, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Versions of this template are now available in the Greek (el) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias. Both call data from Wikidata, and could use bots to deploy them, subject to local agreement. I can put any interested bot-owners in touch with English-speaking editors on those projects. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:48, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
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Line 298: { 'RID', ' ResearcherID', 0, ridLink },
Replace with { 'RID', ' ResearcherID', 1053, ridLink }, GZWDer ( talk) 06:21, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Please check nclLink(). I don't think you can retrieve the page with the id. -- Kovl ( talk) 06:06, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add OCLC to the authority control template and transclude it from Wikidata? Leutha ( talk) 11:48, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
I think we should add Scopus Author IDs (Wikidata property P1153). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:25, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm trying to configure the Module on Wiki-cy, so as to turn off the Categories with one simple touch of a button. Any ideas please? This is a a short term step until we've worked out how to hide them. Lua certainly complicates things, as this would have been very simple on an ordinary template. Many thanks. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 18:00, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
__HIDDENCAT__
onto the category page. On en.WP, we do this using {{Wikipedia category|hidden=yes}}
. See {{
Wikipedia category}}, and the source of
Category:User pages with ORCID identifiers, for instance.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 21:35, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Where I have been unsuccessful finding a VIAF record, I am looking to utilise "no value" statement. The LUA module isn't coping with "no value" so I am wondering whether we are able to modify the script to manage this circumstance. I am less concerned about the authorities utilised as they can be left empty, however, VIAF is the central coordinating reference. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:11, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
I just disabled the MusicBrainz Wikidata property requirements whitelist. It's too tedious to maintain manually IMO. If anyone disagrees, I'm happy to put it back and discuss this further. Legoktm ( talk) 23:40, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm working with a number of editors on non-English Wikipedias, to have {{ Authority control}} and its sub-templates and module(s) imported into their projects. A couple are getting errors which they can't resolve (they both speak English, thankfully!). Could anyone kindly assist them, if I point them here? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:46, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Now resolved. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:42, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello, using this template in its simple form, allowing it to read from wikidata is terrific. I propose to extend its use to automatically provide categories of birth / death. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the techniques used, so I only give my proposal here. -- FocalPoint ( talk) 16:06, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
User:Magnus Manske has created a new tool which lets you check whether an authority control identifier is used on Wikidata, and thus in Wikipedia (including non-English Wikipedias). I wrote about it in http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/finding-orcid-wikidata-wikipedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:50, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
This Coen brothers article seems to be the only bio of these brothers, so I added two Authority control templates for them. I don't know whether that might not be a problem. There are two redirects from their individual names ( Ethan Coen and Joel Coen), but it seemed even worse to add them to the redirect pages. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 03:14, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that the article on Alpha Phi Omega has an Authority control that has both VIAF and LCCN
Should the Usage table in the doc for the LCCN and VIAF be changed so that they are no longer restricted to people, or is this caused by the fact that there is a book where the organization is listed as an author? Naraht ( talk) 16:49, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
User:Magnus Manske, User:Pigsonthewing: The values in Wikidata are false. The actual value conforms to /[0-9]{15}[0-9X]/ but it is stored with spaces. This is bad for queries. Unfortunately, some people there blocked my fix, and blocked me. John B. Sullivan ( talk) 12:47, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
The OP has been blocked per checkuser. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:05, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Currently the VIAF system links to English Wikipedia. That excludes other Wikipedias. Why is this not done via Wikidata? John B. Sullivan ( talk) 12:49, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
The OP has been blocked per checkuser. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:06, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Where editing was allowed (Wikipedia ... anyone can edit?), I changed the USA bias and put ISNI before LCCN. I could not change
In the module source code:
{ 'LCCN', ' LCCN', 244, lccnLink }, { 'ISNI', ' ISNI', 213, isniLink },
John B. Sullivan ( talk) 13:06, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
User:Pigsonthewing moved ISNI behind LCCN in several places [3], thus, enlarging the cultural bias. Any reason why? John B. Sullivan ( talk) 15:04, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Dear all, there are many more English speaking libraries, even in VIAF there are many more. Singling out the USA-LCCN and put them first IS cultural bias. The ISNI pages are in English language too. John B. Sullivan ( talk) 15:48, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Now mentioned at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering systemic bias#Bias preferring USA based LCCN over ISNI. John B. Sullivan ( talk) 13:19, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Let me see if I have the arguments correctly: on the one side, John B. Sullivan is saying that the ISNI is an international number, while the LCCN is a national number. On the other side, Andy and Robert are saying that the LCCN is more used in English than the ISNI? Is that correct? Are there Wikipedia: Reliable sources that someone can cite that compare them, or is this all personal opinion? -- GRuban ( talk) 14:33, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
The OP has been blocked per checkuser. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:06, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I'm working on authority control on Wikidata and one of the things we've added a lot is RKDartists (P650). It's similar to ULAN and maintained by the Netherlands Institute for Art History. Currently just under 15.000 items on Wikidata have a link and just under 10.000 items are linked to an article here. For the table:
As a link https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/<id> should be used to force the interface language to English. Multichill ( talk) 21:31, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
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Done. Merry Christmas! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:07, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Can the template configured so that the template support Wikidata property P345? — Revi 16:01, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Just wondering if there is a reason why WorldCat doesn't have a link in the template when all the other identifiers do? -- WOSlinker ( talk) 16:57, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
schema:creator < http://viaf.org/viaf/12872178> rdf:type schema:Person schema:familyName "Quedens" schema:givenName "Jens" schema:name "Quedens, Jens" schema:sameAs < http://d-nb.info/gnd/109339878>
On the other hand OCLC 848002910 has a not-so-tidy "experimental" record for an in-progress effort
schema:creator < http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1359428010#Meeting/convention_of_religions_in_india_calcutta_1909> rdf:type bgn:Meeting rdf:type schema:Event schema:name "Convention of Religions in India, Calcutta, 1909."
It is not wrong to have both, it is just that they fill different needs. LeadSongDog come howl! 21:16, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Does anyone here know how to find the WorldCat top page for someone, or multiple people with the same name, without any LCCN? Lacking that, I have added a worldcat search report to section External links with a warning that WorldCat does (or may, if I don't know) report hits for multiple people with the same name. -- P64 ( talk) 17:42, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Have you considered adding a link to the wikidata entry in the Authority control box. This would take a user directly to the source of much of the data used in the box. Please ignore me if this has been discussed before.
Billingd ( talk) 16:43, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Have you considered adding the People Australia identifier (P1315) to the template. This provides a link into the Trove database at the National Library of Australia. I would hope this is in addition to, and before, the older NLA identifier (P409).
Comparing the generated URLs, for Ida Lee we get
Further information on the identifier is available from the NLA
Billingd ( talk) 16:35, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
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Use formatter URL (P1630) for creating the links in a similar fashion as MediaWiki:Gadget-AuthorityControl.js (but in lua instead of js) instead of all the hard coded URLs in link functions. This would likely require some sandbox work to get right. 50.126.125.240 ( talk) 22:30, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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Template:Infobox medical condition has been nominated for merging with Template:Authority control. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Alakzi ( talk) 21:52, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
There is a pending TfD merge proposal involving this template @ Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 February 25#Template:Infobox medical condition. Will someone with the template editor bit please add the required TfD notice template? Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 13:21, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
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Would someone please be able to add "DAAO identifier" ( d:Property:P1707) to the module/template. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:59, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Why don't we add the IMDB and IBDB profile number to the template? Currently it may appear in WIkipedia as a reference or as an external link, and as an external link it may or may not use the standard IMDB or IDBD template. We would then be the primary database that links VIAF to IMDB and IBDB numbers. We would tie together another authoritative source and standardize the display. The links as sources and external links can remain. It should be easy to migrate the numbers from the existing template automatically. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 18:19, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
"We would then be the primary database that links VIAF to IMDB and IBDB numbers." Wikidata evidently hopes to be that database. ISFDB, IMDB, and IBDB identifiers are now within its scope.
I would prefer more progress there (where data entry is not yet the primary need, if i understand correctly, because basic points need resolution first). And someday see a more economical Authority control template message here. -- P64 ( talk) 01:27, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
@ Legoktm, Jackmcbarn, and Tpt: Would one of you mind implementing "no value" in the VIAF identifier component as an acceptable value within the controlling module? It is an accepted value at Wikidata where a tracking date is added. If you are looking for a local page where you can see it in action please see Samuel Dyer. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
If I understand correctly, German DE.wiki tracks such search failures for the value of parameter GND in its Normdaten template de:Vorlage:Normdaten. Having updated several, I initiated one last month: illustration: GNDfehlt; GNDCheck (revision since approved by another editor). The last two parameters report that someone looked and didn't find a GND value on 2015-02-06 (did find only the antepenultimate nameholder). These last three parameters (last and thus easy to find in the illustrated layout that everyone seems to follow) do not affect the template message but they inform editors who read the code. Perhaps they are used to generate some reports too. -- P64 ( talk) 22:02, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
We are still displaying a 404 error to a French database. See Clarence Whitehill, for example. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 19:35, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
How many databases should I be searching in? I see that sometimes the VIAF number forces other database identifiers to display. For other people I have to do a second search in the LCCN database, and then that forced WorldCat to display. What other databases should I be searching? -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 21:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
np-lastname,%20firstname
or viaf-[VIAF cluster number]
--with a notice that WorldCat lists works by distinct people who share the name, if appropriate. Example:
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-macleod,%20iain/ * {{WorldCat id|np-macleod,%20iain|Iain MacLeod}}
generates
Should a maintenance category be added to this template, similar to Category:Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, so editors can review and make the appropriate fixes? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 21:33, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
The BNF parameter is not being imported from Wikidata properly and displays a second time as "(data)". I don't know how the template is importing that parameter, but it should be easy to fix. See Lawrence Kolb -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 23:33, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Please add also the NLA Persistent Identifier ( P1315) to this module. Regards, -- T.seppelt ( talk) 16:29, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Shouldn't the template link to Wikipedia:Authority control instead of Authority control? Erpert blah, blah, blah... 07:08, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
CRISTIN (Current Research Information SysTem in Norway, which also includes the Norwegian Scientific Index) should be added to the template. A person entry (in English) looks like this http://www.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/1/wa/personVis?type=PERSON&pnr=39812&la=en where 39812 is the identifier (in this case, of Edvard Moser). CRISTIN is the major Norwegian documentation system for academic publications of all sorts, and complements BIBSYS which mainly covers books. Bjerrebæk ( talk) 16:33, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
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I would like this Deleted> "For the past twenty years he has been associated with L'abri Fellowship and is currently living and teaching at L'Abri in Huémoz, Switzerland." 2A02:120B:2C7A:90A0:19E4:2BD2:4242:1D2F ( talk) 19:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
{{
Authority control}}
. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. That text is in the
Greg Laughery article (which is not protected), and has been since its creation in 2006.
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{ 'TLS', '
TLS', 0, tlsLink },
Change "0" to "1362".
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Some errors found in instances of this template are being discussed at User talk:T.seppelt. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:47, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Can you please add the tracking category for SBN identifiers (i.e. libraries in Italy)?
Category:Wikipedia articles with SBN identifiers
See also the relevant Wikidata item to be connected ( d:Q18174792)
Thanks, best regards, -- Accurimbono ( talk) 10:37, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Already mentioned earlier on this talk page. I think it's time to take the next steps in usage of this authority control template. I see two main steps:
Second part is probably the easiest part. I played around with Autolist2 a bit and got a list of about 50.000 articles that have viaf, but no {{ Authority control}} here. Should the template be added here? Anyone feel like firing up a bot or should I give it a shot?
Moving the data consists of several parts. I'll take {{ Commons category}} as an example, because for that template this has been setup already:
This way it's possible for humans and bots to follow the progress and know what pages/items to work on. I would propose to setup a similar system for this template. The four states we should track with categories: Local, both same, both different, Wikidata. Take for example viaf:
We need to do this for the other types too, but we can just start with a couple. Would love to have a tracker category like Category:Wikipedia articles with authority control completely from Wikidata that would be added when the template doesn't have any local data anymore. Any opinions on this structure? The names of the tracker categories are just suggestions. We can bikeshed about the exact names later ;-) Multichill ( talk) 13:22, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
I think you guys will be interested to know that T.seppelt will be operating Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KasparBot. Please let me know of how the Bot Approval Group could help you further. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:44, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
@
Multichill: In your first post in this section you asked "Should the template be added here?"
. The answer is: "yes, please!"
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 20:37, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
The equivalent template used in Commons allows automatic localization according to the user's profile. Could that feature be implemented here?
Also, do the Wikipedias in other languages share this template? -- AngelHerraez ( talk) 16:39, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
I followed the template addition instructions on Grand Lodge of Massachusetts; I added an empty parameter version but got nothing at all om preview or display, despite finding both a Wikidata and VIAF entry for it. Has something changed in the formatting? MSJapan ( talk) 19:30, 17 May 2015 (UTC)