This extension for mediawiki adds data to a wiki page based on a link set in the Semantic MediaWiki and grabs data from wikidata. It is bascially developed for the project school archives and handles the following information from wikidata. You can also use it as a blueprint to write your own extension to get data from wikidata. Supported items:
- P18: picture
- P6375: adress
- P856: website
- P625: coordinates
- P1448: names
- P1249: earliest written record
- P571: inception
- P31: instance of
- P137: operator
- Link to wikipedia
- P227: Link to GND (German national library)
- P569: year of birth
- P570: year of death
- P937: work location
- P106: occupation
- P108: employer
- P1066: student of
The extension adds three magic words to your mediawiki:
- wikidatashow: creates a box like to one in the example
- wikidatashowlite: takes in the p-value you want to show and only shows this information (fits great if you want to display local data from semantic mediawiki together with data from wikidata)
- wikidatashoweasy: does the same as wikidatashowlite, but gives back the raw result without any formatting. If you type {{#wikidatashowlite:P18, Q1533809}}, you get: https://d-nb.info/gnd/2012843-5if you type {{#wikidatashowwasy:P18, Q1533809}}, you get: 2012843-5. wikidatashoweasy can be used with all p-values, wikidatashowlite only with p-values pre-defined above. Example:
- Add "freearhey/wikidata": "3.2" to your composer.json of the wiki in the section "require"
- Run composer update --no-dev
- Clone this repo via git clone https://github.com/julianhocker/WikidataShow.git into extensions
- Add wfLoadExtension('WikidataShow'); to your LocalSettings.php
This way you get a box with all the data defined above directly from wikidata
- type the magic work {{#wikidatashow:}} into a page and it will get the corresponding information based on the smw-attribute 'Wikidata ID'
- you can also provide the wikidata-id directly, e.g. {{#wikidatashow:Q1533809}}
This way you only get single items from wikidata. This function is provided for links to wikipedia, image, adress, website, link to GND
- type the magic word {{#wikidatashowlite:}} to a page, giving the p-value of the information you need or 'wikipedia', e.g. {{#wikidatashowlite:P18}} to get the corresponding image.
- if you do not have Semantic Mediawiki running, just provide the wikidata ID as second paramenter to get the data: {{#wikidatashowlite:P227|Q1533809}}
The extension was tested on Semantic MediaWiki 3.1.5. and MediaWiki 1.34.0. You do not need Semantic MediaWiki to make it running, but then you have to provide the wikidata-ID directly. Translation is right now done in English and German, please feel free to add more translation ;).
- Please open issues if you encounter problems
- connection to wikidata should be done more nicely in the code
- I also added the magic word wikidatashoweasy, that just returns the value from wikidata. It seemed handy at first, but I did not see great usage since many values are not proper formatted/usefull in wikidata