Template:Wikidata list/doc

Usage

This template defines a bot-generated list based on Wikidata (original blog post). It must be "closed" with {{Wikidata list end}}; the text between these two templates will be periodically (once every 24h) replaced by the bot-generated list. At this moment, only one list per page is possible.

The query MUST include the ?item variable - do not rename it.

It is also possible to combine usage with the Mbabel tool, for Wikipedia article drafts based on a particular Wikidata query - see Wikipedia:Mbabel/Collections.

Use in mainspace

There is no consensus to use this template and ListeriaBot to maintain lists in article space per Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Re-examination of ListeriaBot. Any uses of this template in mainspace will produce an error message () and populate Category:Pages with templates in the wrong namespace, and will not be updated.

Example

The following example shows only entries where

"instance of" (P31) has the value of "lighthouse" (Q39715)

and

"located in the administrative territorial entity" (P131) can be anything as long as its part of the "Netherlands" (Q55)

and in the information it retrieves one should be call "Place" rather than its default value "located in the administrative territorial entity" (P131)

{{Wikidata list|sparql=

    SELECT ?item WHERE {

    ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q39715 .

    ?item (wdt:P131)* wd:Q55

    }
|columns=label:Article,description,P131:Place,P580,P582,P625,P18
|section=
|min_section=
|sort=label
|links=text
|thumb=128
|autolist=fallback
|references=all
|summary=itemnumber
|freq=7
|wdedit=yes
}}
... (This will be overwritten by ListeriaBot) ...
{{Wikidata list end}}

Parameters

sparql

A SPARQL SELECT query. See SPARQL query service examples where many are suitable for Listeria. Needs to return ?item as the item number. Double curly brackets (for example "}}") should be avoided, for example by inserting a space between them ("} }"). Mandatory

columns

Defines the columns of the list table. Allowed values are :

• number, a serial row number (per section), increasing from 1, according to the initial sorting.
• label, the wiki-language-based label of the item, linked to the local article (where exists), or the Wikidata item. Labels without values for the wiki-language will show the english label as a fallback.
• label/xx, the wiki-language-based label of the item, using the given language code (here, "xx"), as plain text. Labels without values for the requested language will show the english label as a fallback.
• alias/xx, the wiki-language-based list of aliases for the item, using the given language code (here, "xx"), as plain text.
• description, the manual, or auto-generated description.
• item, the Q item number.
• Pxxx a Wikidata property.
• Pxxx/Pzzz, qualifier properties; for Pxxx linking to an item Qyyy and having a Pzzz qualifier, the Qyyy linked label and the value of Pzzz.
• Pxxx/Qyyy/Pzzz, qualifier properties; for Pxxx linking to an item Qyyy and having a Pzzz qualifier, the value of Pzzz. This is a version of the above, specific for a single item; e.g., "P553/Q866/P554" to get YouTube account names.
• ?fieldname, a SPARQL result field name (variable).

A column header is specified by adding ":Header" suffix to the column definition, otherwise the Wikidata property (language) name is used. For quantities (numerical properties) where lower and upper bounds are indicated as nominal value +/- tolerance (for example 15 +/- 5), only the nominal value (15) is shown. Case sensitive. Since the release of May 2021 single quotes are not supported (causes the query to fail with a "not edited" message). Mandatory

sort

The initial sort key for the table. Valid values are:

• label, the label of the item.
• family_name, tries to find, and sort by, the family (last) name from the label, assuming items are people. This is a heuristic and may not work properly in all cases. If possible, try to sort by P734 (family name).
• Pxxx, a Wikidata property.

Optional

sort_order

DESC will reverse the sort order, any other value leaves it ascending.

section

The list can be sectioned by a Wikidata property. Can be a property number (preferably prefixed by P), or a ?fieldname (using variables does not work anymore). Optional

min_section

The minimum number of entries to generate a section when used together with section. All other entries will be put under section "misc". Default 2. Optional

autolist

If description is a column but no description exists on Wikidata, "autolist=fallback" uses AutoDesc to generate one. Optional

language

Label/description language, if different from site language. Optional

thumb

The thumbnail width for images (e.g. column P18). Default 128. Optional

links

How to render links (properties with datatype item) not in the local Wikipedia. Valid values are:

• all to link to Wikidata. Default.
• local to remove entries for which there exists no local article (the opposite of red_only).
• red to generate red links based on label and item.
• red_only to remove entries for which there exists a local article (the opposite of local).
• text to generate blue links for existing pages, and plain text otherwise.
• reasonator to generate blue links for existing pages, and links to Reasonator otherwise.

Optional

row_template

Generates a template call rather than a table row; the template must then generate the table row in turn or the table header/footer need to be suppressed using skip_table parameter. Parameters passed to the template are the lower-case keys from the columns parameter, e.g. label or P18. Optional

header_template

Generates a template call rather than a table header; the template must then generate the table header. No parameters are passed to this template. Recommended to be used with row_template. Optional

skip_table

Suppresses the table markup completely when using row_template. Any value will work. Optional

wdedit

Generates information that allows Wikidata editing from Wikipedia using this JavaScript. Value needs to be yes. Does not work when row_template is used. Caution: This will result in larger wikitext than normal, and updates may fail because of that. Optional

references

Add references. Allowed value is all. Requires {{reflist}} or similar somewhere in the page. Optional

freq

Numerical value X; wait at least X days before an automatic update. Default 1. Does not affect updates via web interface. Optional

summary

Comma-separated list of keys to add as a summary underneath all other content.

• itemnumber The total number of items (rows) in this list.

Optional

one_row_per_item

Set to no if the SPARQL has multiple results for the same item, and you want them in separate list rows (since V2). Optional

Bug reports

Report issues or propose new ideas on GitHub