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This seems to be false, as of a few days ago. E.g., Graph theory, Real number, Integer, Number theory, Diophantine approximation, Division (mathematics), Numeral system, Binomial, Number, Angle, Equation, Arithmetic, Logarithm. Is this intentional, or has KasparBot run off the rails? Sławomir Biały ( talk) 13:52, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Just tried an LCSH entry as a LCCN parameter for "Hoe (tool)" - it produces a useful LCCN link, but a bad WorldCat link. Could the WorldCat link be suppressed for 'sh...' formatted (ie subject heading) type control numbers? Batternut ( talk) 22:24, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Per the discussion here and at AN, I have boldly pointed the header link to Help:Authority control. Alakzi ( talk) 15:25, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
I'd like to suggest adding the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile authority control IDs to this template. There is plenty of Chileans (and non-Chileans too) who have a record in their catalog, and also of an infinity of publications, including newspapers, magazines, maps, and photographies, recordings, etc. I have already proposed the creation of a Wikidata property. -- Diego Grez ( talk) 03:18, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
I try to clean up
Category:Pages using authority control with parameters. Many of those pages use the parameter TSURL
. What does it stand for and why do we need it? Can I just deleted it? Thank you, --
T.seppelt (
talk) 17:42, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
Wolf Bachofner is in Category:VIAF different on Wikidata yet checking WD against the value in the template... they're the same value. Can someone check my sanity please?-- Izno ( talk) 15:01, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Links to data.bnf.fr doesnt have the same format as other entrys, e.g. The_Village_Fête_(Rubens) - no explanation what it is, just an external link named data and no link to a wikipedia article either. Christian75 ( talk) 22:52, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
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I see the LCAuth linking logic has been updated to support LCSH (and not just LCNAF):
local function lccnLink( id )
local parts = splitLccn( id )
if not parts then
return false
end
local lccnType = parts1 ~= 'sh' and 'names' or 'subjects'
id = parts1 .. parts2 .. append( parts3], '0', 6 )
return '[http://id.loc.gov/authorities/' .. lccnType .. '/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']' .. getCatForId( 'LCCN' )
end
However this needs to propagate to the Worldcat linking that falls back for using this. Can we get this:
--Worldcat
if parentArgs'WORLDCATID' and parentArgs'WORLDCATID' ~= '' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'WORLDCATID', '', parentArgs'WORLDCATID'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/' .. parentArgs'WORLDCATID' .. ' WorldCat]', false ) ) --Validation?
elseif parentArgs'LCCN' and parentArgs'LCCN' ~= '' then
local lccnParts = splitLccn( parentArgs'LCCN' )
if lccnParts then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'LCCN', '', parentArgs'LCCN'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-' .. lccnParts1 .. lccnParts2 .. '-' .. lccnParts3 .. ' WorldCat]', false ) )
end
end
updated to this:
--Worldcat
if parentArgs'WORLDCATID' and parentArgs'WORLDCATID' ~= '' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'WORLDCATID', '', parentArgs'WORLDCATID'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/' .. parentArgs'WORLDCATID' .. ' WorldCat]', false ) ) --Validation?
elseif parentArgs'LCCN' and parentArgs'LCCN' ~= '' then
local lccnParts = splitLccn( parentArgs'LCCN' )
if lccnParts and lccnParts1 ~= 'sh' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'LCCN', '', parentArgs'LCCN'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-' .. lccnParts1 .. lccnParts2 .. '-' .. lccnParts3 .. ' WorldCat]', false ) )
end
end
This should remove the WorldCat link for articles like: Automata theory. Thanks. 50.126.125.240 ( talk) 12:32, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
sh
); these links were dead. The change as implemented detects whether the LCCN ID is a SH, and thus bypassing the WorldCat step.
Alakzi (
talk) 21:39, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikidata#Edit in Wikidata links. Thanks. Evad37 [ talk 01:38, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
I see that WD has set up a new " BestStatements" that takes the preferred field. This would be excellent for this template as there can often be duplicate fields, eg. VIAF, that exist and we need to target the preferred data rather than the lowest number. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:19, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
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I noticed multiple discussions about wrong AC information transcluded by blank {{ Authority control}}. A edit on Wikidata would prevent such discussions and redirect the editors directly to the corresponding Wikidata item. A possible implementation would be [[d:Special:ItemByTitle/enwiki/{{FULLPAGENAME}}|edit on Wikidata]]. T.seppelt ( talk) 16:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
It seems to me we would only want to display such a link for each specific parameter which the template is getting directly from WD i.e. where the local page definition has not overridden the value.
Administratively, I'm closing the edit request since neither implementation nor requirements are fully laid out in your request per the edit protected template documentation. -- Izno ( talk) 23:19, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Please have a look at
Category:Wikipedia articles with authority control information. Many subcategories (NDL, NSK, BNE, LNB) contain nearly no articles. As far as I understand the module getCatForId( id )
must be called at the link printing functions. Can somebody please implement this? We should consider whether getCatForId( id )
can be called generally and not separately at the ...link( id )
functions. Thanks, --
T.seppelt (
talk) 17:10, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
English Wikipedia links to http://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/ much shorter would be http://isni.org/
Note also, that viaf.org links to http://isni.org/isni, which is already on the shorter domain, but still has the "/isni".
Eldizzino ( talk) 15:01, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
https://isni.org/[isni]
could be the unified URL.
Eldizzino (
talk) 10:22, 23 June 2015 (UTC)Hello, I know that maybe this is not right place where I can posted about this problem, but we are facing with huge problem on our Wikipedia. So, we receive this message about module: Грешка во Lua во Модул:Navbox, ред 16: Tried to write global trim ("Error in Lua in Module:Navbox, section 16: Tried to write global trim". We tried to use new version in this module from English Wikipedia, but then we are facing with another problem, because we don`t see any templates at all. If you know what is the problem or you know someone who has any idea how to be fixed this, please contact us. Thanks and sorry for bringing this to this talk page. -- Ehrlich91 ( talk) 20:19, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
I set up a tool where you can find all problems which occurred while moving AC information to Wikidata: https://tools.wmflabs.org/kasparbot/ac.php. You can select the projects and the types of problems. The data set is refreshed periodically by my bot. Any feedback is welcome. Regards, -- T.seppelt ( talk) 08:33, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
enwiki Jessica Ahlberg no wikidata item 2015-07-05 19:57:52 [search Wikidata] [create item] "
These have Wikidata items but are redirects on en.Wikipedia ( d:WD:Bonnie and Clyde), which is not obviously an error. Marking these as resolved is I feel incorrect, however. (Perhaps there is another wiki with these as individual pages?) -- Izno ( talk) 13:22, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
click on the ISNI number for Abraham Lincoln and tell me if you get an error message or some data. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 01:48, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Cat Rambo#External links now shows the template message without WorldCat and LCCN links. Twenty hours ago I added the LCAuth identifier (P244)=no2008028612 at Wikidata D:Q5051056. Then our template message included the WorldCat and LCCN links on "Show preview", yet not after "Save page" (same as now). -- P64 ( talk) 17:27, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
In
Module:Authority control, it appears that line 50 generates a link that starts with http://research.archives.gov/person/
and line 54 generates a link that starts with http://research.archives.gov/organization/
. Would it please be possible to use
protocol-relative URLs for these links? Thanks. --
Elegie (
talk) 17:49, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
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return '[http://research.archives.gov/person/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']'
return '[https://research.archives.gov/person/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']'
return '[http://research.archives.gov/organization/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']'
return '[https://research.archives.gov/organization/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']'
Would anyone object to merging the functionality of {{ Library resources box}} into this template? — Ruud 17:35, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I have been using this template for artists and want to use it now for their artworks as well. I just added RKDimages to the sandbox (P350), which uses the same format as RKDartists (the potential of the db is about 250,000 records and currently about 1200 are linked on Wikidata). I would also like to add the " Cultural Objects Name Authority" called CONA, which is the same idea, but for ULAN ( Getty Research Institute database already in authority control). Jane ( talk) 08:47, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
-- so User:Jane023 suggests, or proposes, concerning template {{ Authority control}} at WT:Wikidata#Revamp the Authority control template. -- P64 ( talk) 20:36, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
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Can someone please implement this simple edit in the Module to have the SBN categories as already requested/discussed in April?
Categories has been created: Category:Pages with SBN identifiers
Thanks. -- Accurimbono ( talk) 08:28, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
What do folk think of adding IMDb person identifiers to this template, with a view to replacing {{ IMDb name}} in biographies? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:15, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
We use this template in Redirects from people; its use in other redirects may be forthcoming. What follows this paragraph therefore pertains to template {{ Authority control}} as well as to categories and interlanguage links. (I would argue against mentioning AC along with cats and ills in the instruction that is underlined below, or equivalent instruction, analogous suggestion, etc, because I don't consider this template useful to readers.)
For discussion elsewhere, eg WT:RE#Redirects in article categories, workaround, I provided illustration of one line at the end of an article that instructs concerning substantial incoming redirects.
Thus, voila, navigation at one remove to Category:Kate Greenaway Medal winners (Janet) and Category:British children's book illustrators (Janet and daughter Jessica Ahlberg), no:Allan Ahlberg and pl:Allan Ahlberg.
That indented line is the illustration, now to be found also at Janet and Allan Ahlberg; version now, end of page --following any stub tags, which the example page does not include. But I revert the Ahlbergs joint biography momentarily.
-- P64 ( talk) 23:11, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
This hour I visited several categories of the Kasparbot report that T.seppelt links above and I settled on "regex doesn't match" as a small one (here at EN.wiki) that I might cover. (Done)
I noticed that 4 of 5 cases included assignment of BNF identifier without the final character, in all these cases one lowercase letter that follows 8 numerals. Meanwhile at VIAF i noticed that this 8-digit number is precisely what VIAF displays on mouseover. For example see VIAF 120705005 and point to the French tricolor flag: '13942457'. But select the French flag; thus visit > https://viaf.org/processed/BNF%7C13942457 > line 009 displays the correct eddress http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13942457h from which we must take the final nine characters, with closing lowercase letter 'h' but without lowercase prefix 'cb'.
Is there some reason VIAF cannot display the ninth character on mouseover back on the preceding page? Fewer of us would then give 8-digit values here or at Wikidata.
Good night. -- P64 ( talk) 00:00, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
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@ Pigsonthewing: Hi everyone,
In order to fulfil the agenda in Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/Status I would like to propose a new Authority control template for the user namespace.
The problem is the following: the Authority control information in namespace 2 cannot be moved to Wikidata. In future the main namespace could renounce the local parameters (of course only if all differences and issues are solved [2]). In future we will need to templates:
To prepare this step I would like to introduce
Version 682964469 to
Module:Authority control.
Template:Authority control won't be affected. A future {{
User Authority control}} would just look like {{#invoke:Authority control|userAuthorityControl}}
. Finally: Until
function p.authorityControl( frame )
return authorityControl(frame:getParent().args) -- in future: authorityControl({})
end
is replaced by
function p.authorityControl( frame )
return authorityControl({})
end
nothing would change. What do you think?
Regards, -- T.seppelt ( talk) 06:52, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Why focus on the user namespace? I have used the template on many talk pages, usually biographies and recently under section heading Identities. Many of these are now redundant to article space (personal redirects if not articles, eg Talk:Janet and Allan Ahlberg#Authority control data) but many are not.
Offhand I suppose that the talk-space templates should continue to function either way; more important than the user space function, I think, altho there are hundreds of instances in my user space.
(The linked talk section is redundant to Wikidata, as well as to our article space, because I created a Wikidata item for daughter Jessica Ahlberg D:Q19842025, which is exceptional for me where the personal redirect is routine. Are we moving toward creation of Wikidata items for VIAF identities that are not Wikipedia people?) -- P64 ( talk) 18:06, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
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I would like to update the ref list for this artist.
This is a substantial interview in the Brooklyn Rail on recent work that might fit nicely (footnoted) in the opening paragraph: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/09/art/eve-andre-larame-with-ann-mccoy
Add an image from Wikimedia Commons, near the Major Works section: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eve_Andree_Laramee_Apparatus_for_the_Distillation_of_Vague_Intuitions.jpg
Fix one citation - number 14. The date is showing up with a red error message.
Donkrug (
talk) 01:52, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
{{
Authority control}}
. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned.
Jackmcbarn (
talk) 03:57, 10 November 2015 (UTC)Hello. I would like to suggest that Discogs is added to the template -- it is a similarly user-curated open database and would be immeasurably helpful to build a pathway for music-related content. -- Erika aka BrillLyle ( talk) 00:56, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Would it be possible to add this to the explanation on the Template page. I tried but it didn't show up.
Thanks! -- Erika aka BrillLyle ( talk) 00:58, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
For ISNI IDs we're linking to, say:
but presumably should be linking to:
Can this be changed? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:52, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
WorldCat parameter in the article Madonna (entertainer) produces link that doesn't work:
Correct link would be: https://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-59270244/. Is there a way to fix this? -- Triggerhippie4 ( talk) 01:02, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Would it be possible to add AllMusic as an authority control parameter? Ping me back. Cheers! {{u|
Checkingfax}} {
Talk}
12:59, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
I've started an RfC about Authority Control at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 125#RfC on Wikipedia:Authority Control, you are all invited to comment of course. Fram ( talk) 17:09, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Can we include CRIStin ID (Wikidata Property:P2287)? (It is Norway's national research information system). It is currently included on this project using Template:Cristin. Wikidata uses http://www.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/wa/personVis?type=PERSON&action=sok&pnr=$1 as the formatter URL, however http://www.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/wa/personVis?type=PERSON&action=sok&pnr=$1&la=en will deliver an English version. Bjerrebæk ( talk) 23:07, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Where there is more than one VIAF number recorded in Wikidata, the module seems to return the number of the first hit, rather than the value that has been marked preference. Would someone please make the required change so that the "preferred rank" VIAF identifier is chosen as the priority. An example is John Scotus Eriugena which shows the VIAF 264883161, whereas the preferred ranking I have set to 90633393 (lower number, to where VIAF merges).
Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:11, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
The links to Bibsys are broken. The current format looks like this example: http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=BIBSYS&vid=BIBSYS&search_scope=blended_scope&query=lsr39,exact,90885361 -- Bjerrebæk ( talk) 09:50, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
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I found VIAF links do not work. For an example, https://viaf.org/viaf/9917892 produces "ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH" error. But http works fine. We need to change the protocol. -- Cheol ( talk) 13:33, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Several people have commented to me, recently, that the template's wording, "Authority control", means nothing to them. Some have suggested alternatives, such as "Library catalogue IDs (Authority control)" or "External IDs (Authority control)". Any thoughts? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:46, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
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I made some code changes to allow VIAF-based linking into WorldCat and made this linkage be prioritized over using LCCN-based linking:
This allows more articles to be automatically linked, including ones with VIAF ID (P214) but without Library of Congress authority ID (P244) Wikidata properties (but still works if the opposite is true). It also allows automatic linking in cases where WorldCat uses VIAF as their key instead of LCCN. For example, the Madonna article would not need to provide template arguments to override the WorldCat link like it currently does (since the new code would instead link like this: WorldCat). I did testing and the results look good but there are some detrimental cases where we have different VIAF IDs linked than the ones that WorldCat uses to link to their records. When looking at Template:Authority control/testcases one can see where two entries are now WorldCat linked where they were not before and if you look hard you can find one case where the VIAF-based linkage fails over what was provided before. I believe this is the best that can be attained but feedback is welcome. Thank you. 15.65.244.12 ( talk) 03:19, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sent here from Wikidata where I asked why, on pages: Harmonices Mundi and Mysterium Cosmographicum, Authority control adds a link to Worldcat, that leads to nothing. ..... Any clue? Thanks,-- DDupard ( talk) 18:03, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Categories are named like Category:Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers. Why is the word "Wikipedia" added? Some over-enwiki reason? - DePiep ( talk) 18:04, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
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For links of the form
http://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx where xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx is an ORCID, it appears that HTTPS is supported. It should be possible to generate HTTPS links by editing the code in
Module:Authority control. Specifically, line 201 should be changed from
return '[http://orcid.org/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']' .. getCatForId( 'ORCID' )
to
return '[https://orcid.org/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']' .. getCatForId( 'ORCID' )
instead. Given the move towards
HTTPS by default on WP, this would seem to be a useful change. Thanks. --
Elegie (
talk) 08:08, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
A one-off issue with VIAF is no reason not to protect our readers from snooping. It's also not true that ORCID serve HTTP by default:
$ curl -I http://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu) Content-Type: text/html Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 10:55:16 GMT Location: https://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx Connection: keep-alive Set-Cookie: X-Mapping-fjhppofk=...; path=/ Content-Length: 193
Now done. Izkala ( talk) 10:57, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
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This is a request to edit the Module, not the Template, but they share this Talk page.
I
marked up the Module’s sandbox with a change that should generally be invisible: it wraps each property–value pair between <span style="white-space:nowrap;">
and </span>
. The result is visible on the
Template’s testcases page, depending on your browser window’s width. For example, in the second testcases pair, it’s always:
“ LCCN: n79113947”, and prevents
“
LCCN:
n79113947” (with a line break), a scenario whose probability increases toward the bottom of the page. Thank you. —
LLarson (
said &
done) 22:56, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
<span class="nowrap">...</span>
, because it's what {{
Nowrap}} does anyway? Something like "thisisastring(s)" may still wrap (although it's an invalid case here). Any objections to just nowrap it all? —
Andy W. (
talk ·
ctb) 00:56, 18 May 2016 (UTC)This
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Current Members in the band Bohemiasub ( talk) 15:33, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
{{
Authority control}}
. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned.
Izno (
talk) 15:53, 27 May 2016 (UTC)This is styled like part of a navbox template for some reason. I propose the style below:
Authority control |
KATMAKROFAN ( talk) 16:44, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
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I updated the module’s sandbox
[6] with my proposal to link to English Wikipedia’s new
Base Léonore article instead of its
French‑language counterpart. I also updated the URI protocol in the corresponding link to the Ministère de la culture’s website: https:
→ http:
until they repair their certificate. —
LLarson (
said &
done) 04:06, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
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Sandbox edit: Can we include "INSPIRE-HEP" from INSPIRE-HEP author ID (P2930)? It's a major database for high energy physics, and provides author profiles for physicists, especially in the particle physics field. The formatter url is https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/$1 . Example: https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Fabiola.Gianotti.1 – Danmichaelo ( talk) 22:12, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
At Johannes Gehrts#External links this template generates WorldCat link to
where VIAF 5684137 is correct for Gehrts, but that auto-generated URL yields "404: Document not found" rather than a working route to his page at WorldCat
where LCCN n79007641 is correct for him.
The VIAF and LCCN id and Wikipedia links are correctly entered at Wikidata d:Q6216686.
What's up? -- P64 ( talk) 19:03, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-gehrts,%20johannes/
, which I considered adding to the biography footer, evidently redirects via
VIAF
95844706 (which i missed last hour).Same as the preceding section, the revised version of this template generates bad links to WorldCat by relying on Wikidata VIAF id rather than LCCN.
-- P64 ( talk) 20:36, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
The problem is not entirely "data-driven". Previously this template generated WorldCat links from LCCN. That version would, presumably did, generate working links for both McCarthy and Nesbit, because n88654900 and n85097242 are both [a] incorporated in good URL for McCarthy and Nesbit (displayed above) and [b] the unique or preferred of first-listed LCCN wikidata has on file for them.
Has anyone assessed coverage by the new version of the template and compared it with coverage by the old version? Can anyone characterize the class of people for whom the new version decisively provided adequate WorldCat links?
Some have argued that this template has made {{
worldcat id}} redundant. Three years ago EN.wiki, mainly biography pages, showed 52,000 uses of the latter. One year ago there were only 4,417 uses of {worldcat id}.
--So reported by me (P64) and Andy Mabbett (
User:Pigsonthewing), with explanation in reply by
User:Green Cardamom of recently stripping 10,000 instances in favor of this template. See
Template talk:Worldcat id#Current use in articles, with all contributions during the time when this template generated WorldCat links from LCCN. --
P64 (
talk) 19:12, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Incidentally, the last two also have LCCNs but are not indexed in WorldCat Identities by such (so the first three did not used to have such links and the last two used to have broken links).
It should be noted that though I would recommend against such, it is possible to change the priority of the linkage by rearranging the statements added in 710098539. For example from the current:
--Worldcat
if parentArgs'WORLDCATID' and parentArgs'WORLDCATID' ~= '' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'WORLDCATID', '', parentArgs'WORLDCATID'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/' .. parentArgs'WORLDCATID' .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) ) --Validation?
elseif parentArgs'VIAF' and string.match( parentArgs'VIAF'], '^%d+$' ) then -- Hackishly copy the validation code; this should go away when we move to using P1793 and P1630
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'VIAF', '', parentArgs'VIAF'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/containsVIAFID/' .. parentArgs'VIAF' .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) )
elseif parentArgs'LCCN' and parentArgs'LCCN' ~= '' then
local lccnParts = splitLccn( parentArgs'LCCN' )
if lccnParts and lccnParts1 ~= 'sh' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'LCCN', '', parentArgs'LCCN'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-' .. lccnParts1 .. lccnParts2 .. '-' .. lccnParts3 .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) )
end
end
to something like:
--Worldcat
if parentArgs'WORLDCATID' and parentArgs'WORLDCATID' ~= '' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'WORLDCATID', '', parentArgs'WORLDCATID'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/' .. parentArgs'WORLDCATID' .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) ) --Validation?
elseif parentArgs'LCCN' and parentArgs'LCCN' ~= '' then
local lccnParts = splitLccn( parentArgs'LCCN' )
if lccnParts and lccnParts1 ~= 'sh' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'LCCN', '', parentArgs'LCCN'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-' .. lccnParts1 .. lccnParts2 .. '-' .. lccnParts3 .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) )
end
elseif parentArgs'VIAF' and string.match( parentArgs'VIAF'], '^%d+$' ) then -- Hackishly copy the validation code; this should go away when we move to using P1793 and P1630
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'VIAF', '', parentArgs'VIAF'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/containsVIAFID/' .. parentArgs'VIAF' .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) )
end
Authority control seems to return the MusicBrainz ID for only the Artist ID, whereas there are several additional MusicBrainz Identifiers, all of which are specified in Wikidata, including for example: artists, release groups, releases, recordings, works, labels, areas, places, series, etc. It would make sense that Authority control did not limit itself to just one MusicBrainz Identifier. -- Iantresman ( talk) 09:53, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
I have added {{ authority control}} to Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods and nothing has happened. Could someone who understands this stuff please take a quick look? Josh Milburn ( talk) 23:09, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
{{Authority control|VIAF=123455}}
) the template gets its information from
Wikidata. You should add the identifiers preferably there. (
I did it for this article now). Warm regards, --
T.seppelt (
talk) 17:12, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
Why is WorldCat in e.g. Bosnia and Herzegovina leading to broken URL https://www.worldcat.org/identities/containsVIAFID/112144648462347215522 (404: Document not found, OCLC SRW/SRU Server) instead of I guess correct (or, at least, working) one https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81035836/?
Is mistake in the module or Wikidata entry is wrong (maybe there is LCCN identifier on Wikidata and VIAF one has deprecated value right now, really don't understand these...)?
Also, I've noticed that many links get redirected to some other URL (I think all of them in e.g. Bosnia and Herzegovina – VIAF, GND, BNF and NDL) i.e. they are not formed in module for Authority control as they are in reality (e.g. we get on Wikipedia http://d-nb.info/gnd/4088119-2 but it transforms into https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D040881199 in reality).
I've also noticed that https://viaf.org/viaf/112144648462347215522 gets redirected to http://viaf.org/viaf/316422510/ instead of https://viaf.org/viaf/316422510/ (it should have been formed in module already as https://viaf.org/viaf/316422510/ but if it is not – it should at least go to https because viaf.org uses secure protocol). -- Obsuser ( talk) 11:26, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
We're part way adding an initial batch of 128K Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) IDs to Wikidata. These are already matched by SNAC to Wikipedia articles. Later we'll work on matching another ~1 million SNAC IDs to Wikidata items. An example is w6f18z52 for Ezra Pound. To quote from the Wikidata property proposal:
"The Social Networks Archival Context project comes out of the archival community. This project is an aggregator of biographical information about people who are documented in archival resources. Individuals are assigned unique IDs and then links to archival material across different institutions are presented for the individual. This could be a great complement to the number of external IDs we have for people who have published works because it focuses on people documented in archives."
SNAC is a partnership with highly reputable members. For background, see [7]. I propose that we display those IDs in this template. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:49, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
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The purpose of this edit is to use an HTTPS link for
SUDOC. The site that the SUDOC link leads to
supports HTTPS, and using an HTTPS link instead of the current HTTP link should provide increased privacy and security for users. In
Module:Authority control, on line 110, please change http://www.idref.fr/
to https://www.idref.fr/
instead. Thanks. --
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Please fix the BIBSYS linkage. I have provided the update in the sandbox (but it is for scn and not autid which normally differs by a leading 'x'; it should be noted that Wikidata NORAF ID (P1015) uses scn and not autid which is the VIAF component (Q26921380) so regardless we probably ought to move to that anyway despite my needing to update the example in Template:Authority control/testcases from using an autid with a leading 'x'). You can use Michael Goldsmith (computer scientist) (not to mention most of what is in Category:Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers) as an actual test case. We probably need to also hunt out all the autid uses and update them to scn but that is a larger issue for another day. Thank you. 50.53.1.33 ( talk) 03:34, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello -- due to GerardM's great outreach work with Open Library, the Open Library authority control, which makes discoverable the largest resource of freely licensed books online, is now available. I would like to ask for this Open Library ID to be included in the Authority control -- and specifically the Authority control template in English (and other) Wikipedias.... -- Erika aka BrillLyle ( talk) 07:15, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
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This seems to be false, as of a few days ago. E.g., Graph theory, Real number, Integer, Number theory, Diophantine approximation, Division (mathematics), Numeral system, Binomial, Number, Angle, Equation, Arithmetic, Logarithm. Is this intentional, or has KasparBot run off the rails? Sławomir Biały ( talk) 13:52, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Just tried an LCSH entry as a LCCN parameter for "Hoe (tool)" - it produces a useful LCCN link, but a bad WorldCat link. Could the WorldCat link be suppressed for 'sh...' formatted (ie subject heading) type control numbers? Batternut ( talk) 22:24, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Per the discussion here and at AN, I have boldly pointed the header link to Help:Authority control. Alakzi ( talk) 15:25, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
I'd like to suggest adding the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile authority control IDs to this template. There is plenty of Chileans (and non-Chileans too) who have a record in their catalog, and also of an infinity of publications, including newspapers, magazines, maps, and photographies, recordings, etc. I have already proposed the creation of a Wikidata property. -- Diego Grez ( talk) 03:18, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
I try to clean up
Category:Pages using authority control with parameters. Many of those pages use the parameter TSURL
. What does it stand for and why do we need it? Can I just deleted it? Thank you, --
T.seppelt (
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Wolf Bachofner is in Category:VIAF different on Wikidata yet checking WD against the value in the template... they're the same value. Can someone check my sanity please?-- Izno ( talk) 15:01, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Links to data.bnf.fr doesnt have the same format as other entrys, e.g. The_Village_Fête_(Rubens) - no explanation what it is, just an external link named data and no link to a wikipedia article either. Christian75 ( talk) 22:52, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
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I see the LCAuth linking logic has been updated to support LCSH (and not just LCNAF):
local function lccnLink( id )
local parts = splitLccn( id )
if not parts then
return false
end
local lccnType = parts1 ~= 'sh' and 'names' or 'subjects'
id = parts1 .. parts2 .. append( parts3], '0', 6 )
return '[http://id.loc.gov/authorities/' .. lccnType .. '/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']' .. getCatForId( 'LCCN' )
end
However this needs to propagate to the Worldcat linking that falls back for using this. Can we get this:
--Worldcat
if parentArgs'WORLDCATID' and parentArgs'WORLDCATID' ~= '' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'WORLDCATID', '', parentArgs'WORLDCATID'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/' .. parentArgs'WORLDCATID' .. ' WorldCat]', false ) ) --Validation?
elseif parentArgs'LCCN' and parentArgs'LCCN' ~= '' then
local lccnParts = splitLccn( parentArgs'LCCN' )
if lccnParts then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'LCCN', '', parentArgs'LCCN'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-' .. lccnParts1 .. lccnParts2 .. '-' .. lccnParts3 .. ' WorldCat]', false ) )
end
end
updated to this:
--Worldcat
if parentArgs'WORLDCATID' and parentArgs'WORLDCATID' ~= '' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'WORLDCATID', '', parentArgs'WORLDCATID'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/' .. parentArgs'WORLDCATID' .. ' WorldCat]', false ) ) --Validation?
elseif parentArgs'LCCN' and parentArgs'LCCN' ~= '' then
local lccnParts = splitLccn( parentArgs'LCCN' )
if lccnParts and lccnParts1 ~= 'sh' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'LCCN', '', parentArgs'LCCN'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-' .. lccnParts1 .. lccnParts2 .. '-' .. lccnParts3 .. ' WorldCat]', false ) )
end
end
This should remove the WorldCat link for articles like: Automata theory. Thanks. 50.126.125.240 ( talk) 12:32, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
sh
); these links were dead. The change as implemented detects whether the LCCN ID is a SH, and thus bypassing the WorldCat step.
Alakzi (
talk) 21:39, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikidata#Edit in Wikidata links. Thanks. Evad37 [ talk 01:38, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
I see that WD has set up a new " BestStatements" that takes the preferred field. This would be excellent for this template as there can often be duplicate fields, eg. VIAF, that exist and we need to target the preferred data rather than the lowest number. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:19, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
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I noticed multiple discussions about wrong AC information transcluded by blank {{ Authority control}}. A edit on Wikidata would prevent such discussions and redirect the editors directly to the corresponding Wikidata item. A possible implementation would be [[d:Special:ItemByTitle/enwiki/{{FULLPAGENAME}}|edit on Wikidata]]. T.seppelt ( talk) 16:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
It seems to me we would only want to display such a link for each specific parameter which the template is getting directly from WD i.e. where the local page definition has not overridden the value.
Administratively, I'm closing the edit request since neither implementation nor requirements are fully laid out in your request per the edit protected template documentation. -- Izno ( talk) 23:19, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Please have a look at
Category:Wikipedia articles with authority control information. Many subcategories (NDL, NSK, BNE, LNB) contain nearly no articles. As far as I understand the module getCatForId( id )
must be called at the link printing functions. Can somebody please implement this? We should consider whether getCatForId( id )
can be called generally and not separately at the ...link( id )
functions. Thanks, --
T.seppelt (
talk) 17:10, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
English Wikipedia links to http://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/ much shorter would be http://isni.org/
Note also, that viaf.org links to http://isni.org/isni, which is already on the shorter domain, but still has the "/isni".
Eldizzino ( talk) 15:01, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
https://isni.org/[isni]
could be the unified URL.
Eldizzino (
talk) 10:22, 23 June 2015 (UTC)Hello, I know that maybe this is not right place where I can posted about this problem, but we are facing with huge problem on our Wikipedia. So, we receive this message about module: Грешка во Lua во Модул:Navbox, ред 16: Tried to write global trim ("Error in Lua in Module:Navbox, section 16: Tried to write global trim". We tried to use new version in this module from English Wikipedia, but then we are facing with another problem, because we don`t see any templates at all. If you know what is the problem or you know someone who has any idea how to be fixed this, please contact us. Thanks and sorry for bringing this to this talk page. -- Ehrlich91 ( talk) 20:19, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
I set up a tool where you can find all problems which occurred while moving AC information to Wikidata: https://tools.wmflabs.org/kasparbot/ac.php. You can select the projects and the types of problems. The data set is refreshed periodically by my bot. Any feedback is welcome. Regards, -- T.seppelt ( talk) 08:33, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
enwiki Jessica Ahlberg no wikidata item 2015-07-05 19:57:52 [search Wikidata] [create item] "
These have Wikidata items but are redirects on en.Wikipedia ( d:WD:Bonnie and Clyde), which is not obviously an error. Marking these as resolved is I feel incorrect, however. (Perhaps there is another wiki with these as individual pages?) -- Izno ( talk) 13:22, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
click on the ISNI number for Abraham Lincoln and tell me if you get an error message or some data. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 01:48, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Cat Rambo#External links now shows the template message without WorldCat and LCCN links. Twenty hours ago I added the LCAuth identifier (P244)=no2008028612 at Wikidata D:Q5051056. Then our template message included the WorldCat and LCCN links on "Show preview", yet not after "Save page" (same as now). -- P64 ( talk) 17:27, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
In
Module:Authority control, it appears that line 50 generates a link that starts with http://research.archives.gov/person/
and line 54 generates a link that starts with http://research.archives.gov/organization/
. Would it please be possible to use
protocol-relative URLs for these links? Thanks. --
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return '[http://research.archives.gov/person/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']'
return '[https://research.archives.gov/person/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']'
return '[http://research.archives.gov/organization/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']'
return '[https://research.archives.gov/organization/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']'
Would anyone object to merging the functionality of {{ Library resources box}} into this template? — Ruud 17:35, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I have been using this template for artists and want to use it now for their artworks as well. I just added RKDimages to the sandbox (P350), which uses the same format as RKDartists (the potential of the db is about 250,000 records and currently about 1200 are linked on Wikidata). I would also like to add the " Cultural Objects Name Authority" called CONA, which is the same idea, but for ULAN ( Getty Research Institute database already in authority control). Jane ( talk) 08:47, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
-- so User:Jane023 suggests, or proposes, concerning template {{ Authority control}} at WT:Wikidata#Revamp the Authority control template. -- P64 ( talk) 20:36, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
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Can someone please implement this simple edit in the Module to have the SBN categories as already requested/discussed in April?
Categories has been created: Category:Pages with SBN identifiers
Thanks. -- Accurimbono ( talk) 08:28, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
What do folk think of adding IMDb person identifiers to this template, with a view to replacing {{ IMDb name}} in biographies? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:15, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
We use this template in Redirects from people; its use in other redirects may be forthcoming. What follows this paragraph therefore pertains to template {{ Authority control}} as well as to categories and interlanguage links. (I would argue against mentioning AC along with cats and ills in the instruction that is underlined below, or equivalent instruction, analogous suggestion, etc, because I don't consider this template useful to readers.)
For discussion elsewhere, eg WT:RE#Redirects in article categories, workaround, I provided illustration of one line at the end of an article that instructs concerning substantial incoming redirects.
Thus, voila, navigation at one remove to Category:Kate Greenaway Medal winners (Janet) and Category:British children's book illustrators (Janet and daughter Jessica Ahlberg), no:Allan Ahlberg and pl:Allan Ahlberg.
That indented line is the illustration, now to be found also at Janet and Allan Ahlberg; version now, end of page --following any stub tags, which the example page does not include. But I revert the Ahlbergs joint biography momentarily.
-- P64 ( talk) 23:11, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
This hour I visited several categories of the Kasparbot report that T.seppelt links above and I settled on "regex doesn't match" as a small one (here at EN.wiki) that I might cover. (Done)
I noticed that 4 of 5 cases included assignment of BNF identifier without the final character, in all these cases one lowercase letter that follows 8 numerals. Meanwhile at VIAF i noticed that this 8-digit number is precisely what VIAF displays on mouseover. For example see VIAF 120705005 and point to the French tricolor flag: '13942457'. But select the French flag; thus visit > https://viaf.org/processed/BNF%7C13942457 > line 009 displays the correct eddress http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13942457h from which we must take the final nine characters, with closing lowercase letter 'h' but without lowercase prefix 'cb'.
Is there some reason VIAF cannot display the ninth character on mouseover back on the preceding page? Fewer of us would then give 8-digit values here or at Wikidata.
Good night. -- P64 ( talk) 00:00, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
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@ Pigsonthewing: Hi everyone,
In order to fulfil the agenda in Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/Status I would like to propose a new Authority control template for the user namespace.
The problem is the following: the Authority control information in namespace 2 cannot be moved to Wikidata. In future the main namespace could renounce the local parameters (of course only if all differences and issues are solved [2]). In future we will need to templates:
To prepare this step I would like to introduce
Version 682964469 to
Module:Authority control.
Template:Authority control won't be affected. A future {{
User Authority control}} would just look like {{#invoke:Authority control|userAuthorityControl}}
. Finally: Until
function p.authorityControl( frame )
return authorityControl(frame:getParent().args) -- in future: authorityControl({})
end
is replaced by
function p.authorityControl( frame )
return authorityControl({})
end
nothing would change. What do you think?
Regards, -- T.seppelt ( talk) 06:52, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Why focus on the user namespace? I have used the template on many talk pages, usually biographies and recently under section heading Identities. Many of these are now redundant to article space (personal redirects if not articles, eg Talk:Janet and Allan Ahlberg#Authority control data) but many are not.
Offhand I suppose that the talk-space templates should continue to function either way; more important than the user space function, I think, altho there are hundreds of instances in my user space.
(The linked talk section is redundant to Wikidata, as well as to our article space, because I created a Wikidata item for daughter Jessica Ahlberg D:Q19842025, which is exceptional for me where the personal redirect is routine. Are we moving toward creation of Wikidata items for VIAF identities that are not Wikipedia people?) -- P64 ( talk) 18:06, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
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I would like to update the ref list for this artist.
This is a substantial interview in the Brooklyn Rail on recent work that might fit nicely (footnoted) in the opening paragraph: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/09/art/eve-andre-larame-with-ann-mccoy
Add an image from Wikimedia Commons, near the Major Works section: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eve_Andree_Laramee_Apparatus_for_the_Distillation_of_Vague_Intuitions.jpg
Fix one citation - number 14. The date is showing up with a red error message.
Donkrug (
talk) 01:52, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
{{
Authority control}}
. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned.
Jackmcbarn (
talk) 03:57, 10 November 2015 (UTC)Hello. I would like to suggest that Discogs is added to the template -- it is a similarly user-curated open database and would be immeasurably helpful to build a pathway for music-related content. -- Erika aka BrillLyle ( talk) 00:56, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Would it be possible to add this to the explanation on the Template page. I tried but it didn't show up.
Thanks! -- Erika aka BrillLyle ( talk) 00:58, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
For ISNI IDs we're linking to, say:
but presumably should be linking to:
Can this be changed? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:52, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
WorldCat parameter in the article Madonna (entertainer) produces link that doesn't work:
Correct link would be: https://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-59270244/. Is there a way to fix this? -- Triggerhippie4 ( talk) 01:02, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Would it be possible to add AllMusic as an authority control parameter? Ping me back. Cheers! {{u|
Checkingfax}} {
Talk}
12:59, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
I've started an RfC about Authority Control at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 125#RfC on Wikipedia:Authority Control, you are all invited to comment of course. Fram ( talk) 17:09, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Can we include CRIStin ID (Wikidata Property:P2287)? (It is Norway's national research information system). It is currently included on this project using Template:Cristin. Wikidata uses http://www.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/wa/personVis?type=PERSON&action=sok&pnr=$1 as the formatter URL, however http://www.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/wa/personVis?type=PERSON&action=sok&pnr=$1&la=en will deliver an English version. Bjerrebæk ( talk) 23:07, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Where there is more than one VIAF number recorded in Wikidata, the module seems to return the number of the first hit, rather than the value that has been marked preference. Would someone please make the required change so that the "preferred rank" VIAF identifier is chosen as the priority. An example is John Scotus Eriugena which shows the VIAF 264883161, whereas the preferred ranking I have set to 90633393 (lower number, to where VIAF merges).
Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:11, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
The links to Bibsys are broken. The current format looks like this example: http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=BIBSYS&vid=BIBSYS&search_scope=blended_scope&query=lsr39,exact,90885361 -- Bjerrebæk ( talk) 09:50, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
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I found VIAF links do not work. For an example, https://viaf.org/viaf/9917892 produces "ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH" error. But http works fine. We need to change the protocol. -- Cheol ( talk) 13:33, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Several people have commented to me, recently, that the template's wording, "Authority control", means nothing to them. Some have suggested alternatives, such as "Library catalogue IDs (Authority control)" or "External IDs (Authority control)". Any thoughts? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:46, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
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I made some code changes to allow VIAF-based linking into WorldCat and made this linkage be prioritized over using LCCN-based linking:
This allows more articles to be automatically linked, including ones with VIAF ID (P214) but without Library of Congress authority ID (P244) Wikidata properties (but still works if the opposite is true). It also allows automatic linking in cases where WorldCat uses VIAF as their key instead of LCCN. For example, the Madonna article would not need to provide template arguments to override the WorldCat link like it currently does (since the new code would instead link like this: WorldCat). I did testing and the results look good but there are some detrimental cases where we have different VIAF IDs linked than the ones that WorldCat uses to link to their records. When looking at Template:Authority control/testcases one can see where two entries are now WorldCat linked where they were not before and if you look hard you can find one case where the VIAF-based linkage fails over what was provided before. I believe this is the best that can be attained but feedback is welcome. Thank you. 15.65.244.12 ( talk) 03:19, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sent here from Wikidata where I asked why, on pages: Harmonices Mundi and Mysterium Cosmographicum, Authority control adds a link to Worldcat, that leads to nothing. ..... Any clue? Thanks,-- DDupard ( talk) 18:03, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Categories are named like Category:Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers. Why is the word "Wikipedia" added? Some over-enwiki reason? - DePiep ( talk) 18:04, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
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For links of the form
http://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx where xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx is an ORCID, it appears that HTTPS is supported. It should be possible to generate HTTPS links by editing the code in
Module:Authority control. Specifically, line 201 should be changed from
return '[http://orcid.org/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']' .. getCatForId( 'ORCID' )
to
return '[https://orcid.org/' .. id .. ' ' .. id .. ']' .. getCatForId( 'ORCID' )
instead. Given the move towards
HTTPS by default on WP, this would seem to be a useful change. Thanks. --
Elegie (
talk) 08:08, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
A one-off issue with VIAF is no reason not to protect our readers from snooping. It's also not true that ORCID serve HTTP by default:
$ curl -I http://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu) Content-Type: text/html Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 10:55:16 GMT Location: https://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx Connection: keep-alive Set-Cookie: X-Mapping-fjhppofk=...; path=/ Content-Length: 193
Now done. Izkala ( talk) 10:57, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
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This is a request to edit the Module, not the Template, but they share this Talk page.
I
marked up the Module’s sandbox with a change that should generally be invisible: it wraps each property–value pair between <span style="white-space:nowrap;">
and </span>
. The result is visible on the
Template’s testcases page, depending on your browser window’s width. For example, in the second testcases pair, it’s always:
“ LCCN: n79113947”, and prevents
“
LCCN:
n79113947” (with a line break), a scenario whose probability increases toward the bottom of the page. Thank you. —
LLarson (
said &
done) 22:56, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
<span class="nowrap">...</span>
, because it's what {{
Nowrap}} does anyway? Something like "thisisastring(s)" may still wrap (although it's an invalid case here). Any objections to just nowrap it all? —
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Current Members in the band Bohemiasub ( talk) 15:33, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
{{
Authority control}}
. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned.
Izno (
talk) 15:53, 27 May 2016 (UTC)This is styled like part of a navbox template for some reason. I propose the style below:
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KATMAKROFAN ( talk) 16:44, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
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I updated the module’s sandbox
[6] with my proposal to link to English Wikipedia’s new
Base Léonore article instead of its
French‑language counterpart. I also updated the URI protocol in the corresponding link to the Ministère de la culture’s website: https:
→ http:
until they repair their certificate. —
LLarson (
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done) 04:06, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
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Sandbox edit: Can we include "INSPIRE-HEP" from INSPIRE-HEP author ID (P2930)? It's a major database for high energy physics, and provides author profiles for physicists, especially in the particle physics field. The formatter url is https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/$1 . Example: https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Fabiola.Gianotti.1 – Danmichaelo ( talk) 22:12, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
At Johannes Gehrts#External links this template generates WorldCat link to
where VIAF 5684137 is correct for Gehrts, but that auto-generated URL yields "404: Document not found" rather than a working route to his page at WorldCat
where LCCN n79007641 is correct for him.
The VIAF and LCCN id and Wikipedia links are correctly entered at Wikidata d:Q6216686.
What's up? -- P64 ( talk) 19:03, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-gehrts,%20johannes/
, which I considered adding to the biography footer, evidently redirects via
VIAF
95844706 (which i missed last hour).Same as the preceding section, the revised version of this template generates bad links to WorldCat by relying on Wikidata VIAF id rather than LCCN.
-- P64 ( talk) 20:36, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
The problem is not entirely "data-driven". Previously this template generated WorldCat links from LCCN. That version would, presumably did, generate working links for both McCarthy and Nesbit, because n88654900 and n85097242 are both [a] incorporated in good URL for McCarthy and Nesbit (displayed above) and [b] the unique or preferred of first-listed LCCN wikidata has on file for them.
Has anyone assessed coverage by the new version of the template and compared it with coverage by the old version? Can anyone characterize the class of people for whom the new version decisively provided adequate WorldCat links?
Some have argued that this template has made {{
worldcat id}} redundant. Three years ago EN.wiki, mainly biography pages, showed 52,000 uses of the latter. One year ago there were only 4,417 uses of {worldcat id}.
--So reported by me (P64) and Andy Mabbett (
User:Pigsonthewing), with explanation in reply by
User:Green Cardamom of recently stripping 10,000 instances in favor of this template. See
Template talk:Worldcat id#Current use in articles, with all contributions during the time when this template generated WorldCat links from LCCN. --
P64 (
talk) 19:12, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Incidentally, the last two also have LCCNs but are not indexed in WorldCat Identities by such (so the first three did not used to have such links and the last two used to have broken links).
It should be noted that though I would recommend against such, it is possible to change the priority of the linkage by rearranging the statements added in 710098539. For example from the current:
--Worldcat
if parentArgs'WORLDCATID' and parentArgs'WORLDCATID' ~= '' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'WORLDCATID', '', parentArgs'WORLDCATID'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/' .. parentArgs'WORLDCATID' .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) ) --Validation?
elseif parentArgs'VIAF' and string.match( parentArgs'VIAF'], '^%d+$' ) then -- Hackishly copy the validation code; this should go away when we move to using P1793 and P1630
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'VIAF', '', parentArgs'VIAF'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/containsVIAFID/' .. parentArgs'VIAF' .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) )
elseif parentArgs'LCCN' and parentArgs'LCCN' ~= '' then
local lccnParts = splitLccn( parentArgs'LCCN' )
if lccnParts and lccnParts1 ~= 'sh' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'LCCN', '', parentArgs'LCCN'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-' .. lccnParts1 .. lccnParts2 .. '-' .. lccnParts3 .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) )
end
end
to something like:
--Worldcat
if parentArgs'WORLDCATID' and parentArgs'WORLDCATID' ~= '' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'WORLDCATID', '', parentArgs'WORLDCATID'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/' .. parentArgs'WORLDCATID' .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) ) --Validation?
elseif parentArgs'LCCN' and parentArgs'LCCN' ~= '' then
local lccnParts = splitLccn( parentArgs'LCCN' )
if lccnParts and lccnParts1 ~= 'sh' then
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'LCCN', '', parentArgs'LCCN'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-' .. lccnParts1 .. lccnParts2 .. '-' .. lccnParts3 .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) )
end
elseif parentArgs'VIAF' and string.match( parentArgs'VIAF'], '^%d+$' ) then -- Hackishly copy the validation code; this should go away when we move to using P1793 and P1630
table.insert( elements, createRow( 'VIAF', '', parentArgs'VIAF'], '[//www.worldcat.org/identities/containsVIAFID/' .. parentArgs'VIAF' .. ' WorldCat Identities]', false ) )
end
Authority control seems to return the MusicBrainz ID for only the Artist ID, whereas there are several additional MusicBrainz Identifiers, all of which are specified in Wikidata, including for example: artists, release groups, releases, recordings, works, labels, areas, places, series, etc. It would make sense that Authority control did not limit itself to just one MusicBrainz Identifier. -- Iantresman ( talk) 09:53, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
I have added {{ authority control}} to Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods and nothing has happened. Could someone who understands this stuff please take a quick look? Josh Milburn ( talk) 23:09, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
{{Authority control|VIAF=123455}}
) the template gets its information from
Wikidata. You should add the identifiers preferably there. (
I did it for this article now). Warm regards, --
T.seppelt (
talk) 17:12, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
Why is WorldCat in e.g. Bosnia and Herzegovina leading to broken URL https://www.worldcat.org/identities/containsVIAFID/112144648462347215522 (404: Document not found, OCLC SRW/SRU Server) instead of I guess correct (or, at least, working) one https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81035836/?
Is mistake in the module or Wikidata entry is wrong (maybe there is LCCN identifier on Wikidata and VIAF one has deprecated value right now, really don't understand these...)?
Also, I've noticed that many links get redirected to some other URL (I think all of them in e.g. Bosnia and Herzegovina – VIAF, GND, BNF and NDL) i.e. they are not formed in module for Authority control as they are in reality (e.g. we get on Wikipedia http://d-nb.info/gnd/4088119-2 but it transforms into https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D040881199 in reality).
I've also noticed that https://viaf.org/viaf/112144648462347215522 gets redirected to http://viaf.org/viaf/316422510/ instead of https://viaf.org/viaf/316422510/ (it should have been formed in module already as https://viaf.org/viaf/316422510/ but if it is not – it should at least go to https because viaf.org uses secure protocol). -- Obsuser ( talk) 11:26, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
We're part way adding an initial batch of 128K Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) IDs to Wikidata. These are already matched by SNAC to Wikipedia articles. Later we'll work on matching another ~1 million SNAC IDs to Wikidata items. An example is w6f18z52 for Ezra Pound. To quote from the Wikidata property proposal:
"The Social Networks Archival Context project comes out of the archival community. This project is an aggregator of biographical information about people who are documented in archival resources. Individuals are assigned unique IDs and then links to archival material across different institutions are presented for the individual. This could be a great complement to the number of external IDs we have for people who have published works because it focuses on people documented in archives."
SNAC is a partnership with highly reputable members. For background, see [7]. I propose that we display those IDs in this template. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:49, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
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The purpose of this edit is to use an HTTPS link for
SUDOC. The site that the SUDOC link leads to
supports HTTPS, and using an HTTPS link instead of the current HTTP link should provide increased privacy and security for users. In
Module:Authority control, on line 110, please change http://www.idref.fr/
to https://www.idref.fr/
instead. Thanks. --
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Please fix the BIBSYS linkage. I have provided the update in the sandbox (but it is for scn and not autid which normally differs by a leading 'x'; it should be noted that Wikidata NORAF ID (P1015) uses scn and not autid which is the VIAF component (Q26921380) so regardless we probably ought to move to that anyway despite my needing to update the example in Template:Authority control/testcases from using an autid with a leading 'x'). You can use Michael Goldsmith (computer scientist) (not to mention most of what is in Category:Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers) as an actual test case. We probably need to also hunt out all the autid uses and update them to scn but that is a larger issue for another day. Thank you. 50.53.1.33 ( talk) 03:34, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello -- due to GerardM's great outreach work with Open Library, the Open Library authority control, which makes discoverable the largest resource of freely licensed books online, is now available. I would like to ask for this Open Library ID to be included in the Authority control -- and specifically the Authority control template in English (and other) Wikipedias.... -- Erika aka BrillLyle ( talk) 07:15, 2 April 2017 (UTC)