The generic "fetch property values" that I wrote is capable of replacing
#property in a more intelligent manner - documented at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Wikidata
For simple cases though, #property will work - for example if you paste the
following into any section of an article and **preview** it, it will return
the image from Wikidata:
{{#if: {{#property:p18}} | [[File:{{#property:p18}}|thumb]] |}}
Similarly, in an infobox, just using |image = {{#property:p18}} will work
fine.
However, Wikidata can store multiple image filenames, so the question is:
how do you want to deal with those cases?
Building a Lua call to return an image or something like Noimage.svg is a
trivial job : I've made a demo module at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Sandbox/RexxS/Images
If you paste {{#invoke:Sandbox/RexxS/Images|getImage}} into
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka and preview it you'll see "Kafka
portrait.jpg"
If you paste {{#invoke:Sandbox/RexxS/Images|getImage}} into
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangthwaite and preview it you'll see "
Noimage.svg"
Obviously calls can be buried inside templates to hide them from editors -
either an infobox or create a template to make the image as a thumb outside
of an infobox, etc.
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Rexx
On 3 September 2014 12:42, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
On 3 September 2014 04:51, Jane Darnell
<jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would like the same sort of thing for use on
the English Wikipedia for
pictures, so for example if you link to the Wikidata item image property
and
this is filled with a value, it will present the
image that is on
Wikidata,
and if not, will present an alternate such as
[1]. Has anyone built such
a
No, but people have written templates that pull in other Wikidata
values, so it's certainly possible.
I'm blind-copying this to someone who may be able to help.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk