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Personal notes on useful templates and examples

[[Help:A_quick_guide_to_templates]] functions that generate wiki markdown content. By default, templates are transclusive so you'll see the template used rather than the compiled text. It has syntax of <code><nowiki>{{some_function}}</nowiki></code>. To use it with substitution (i.e. permanently create text at publish time, such as <code><nowiki>{{subst:some_function}}</nowiki></code>. A real example would be <code><nowiki>{{subst:Uw-plagiarism}}</nowiki></code> which can be found on [[Template:Uw-plagiarism]]. A common example would be signing posts with <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>. Templates are platform specific, and can accept arguments. Templates can be nested.

== Personal use cases ==

=== Markup and compiled result ===

This substituted Mra code <code><nowiki>{{subst:Mra|{{ill|Jüdische Rundschau|de|Jüdische Rundschau|he|יידישה רונדשאו}}}}</nowiki></code> produces what you see in immediate section below.

=== Interlanguage Links ===
English wikilink with German and Hebrew interlanguage links in this {{diff2|856207111|edit}}

{{markup|
<nowiki>{{ill|Jüdische Rundschau|de|Jüdische Rundschau|he|יידישה רונדשאו}}</nowiki>|{{ill|Jüdische Rundschau|de|Jüdische Rundschau|he|יידישה רונדשאו|display=1}}}}<!-- Template:Mra -->

=== Nested infoboxes ===
Note the param module, and embed=yes. Used in this {{Diff2|857482857|edit}}
{{markup|
<nowiki>{{Infobox person
 | image          = Uri Avneri 1965-11-01 (cropped).jpg
 | caption        = Avnery in 1965
 | birth_name     = '''Helmut Ostermann'''
 | birth_date     = {{Birth date|df=y|1923|9|10|}}
 | birth_place    = [[Beckum, Germany|Beckum]], Germany
 | death_date     = {{death date and age|df=y|2018|8|20|1923|9|10|}}
 | death_place    = [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]]
 |module            = {{Infobox member of the Knesset
   |embed           = yes
   | Year of Aliyah = 1933
   | Knesset(s)     = [[Israeli legislative election, 1965|6]], [[Israeli legislative election, 1969|7]], [[Israeli legislative election, 1977|9]]
   | party1         = [[Meri (political party)|Meri]]
   | partyyears1    = 1965–1974
   | party2         = [[Left Camp of Israel]]
   | partyyears2    = 1979–1981
  }}
}}</nowiki>|{{Infobox person
 | image          = Uri Avneri 1965-11-01 (cropped).jpg
 | caption        = Avnery in 1965
 | birth_name     = '''Helmut Ostermann'''
 | birth_date     = {{Birth date|df=y|1923|9|10|}}
 | birth_place    = [[Beckum, Germany|Beckum]], Germany
 | death_date     = {{death date and age|df=y|2018|8|20|1923|9|10|}}
 | death_place    = [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]]
 |module            = <nowiki>{{Infobox member of the Knesset
   |embed           = yes
   | Year of Aliyah = 1933
   | Knesset(s)     = [[Israeli legislative election, 1965|6]], [[Israeli legislative election, 1969|7]], [[Israeli legislative election, 1977|9]]
   | party1         = [[Meri (political party)|Meri]]
   | partyyears1    = 1965–1974
   | party2         = [[Left Camp of Israel]]
   | partyyears2    = 1979–1981
  }}</nowiki>
}}}}<!-- Template:Mra -->

=== Using Wikidata ===
Wikidata is exciting, because it has potential to replace or compliment the manual updating of infoboxes with structured data. As a live demo, I emptied out most of the attributes below, such as birth and death dates. Note the image changed too. As off this publication, the death_dates were not sourced on wikidata, so they do not appear here. For non biography (or no BLP?), you can use onlysourced=false param, to include everything. You can whitelist or blacklist specific params if needed. 

The documentation for [[Template:Infobox_person/Wikidata/sandbox]] was incomplete and confusing. So far I understand that the params qid and fetchwikidata are required. Embedded Wikidatas is my next challenge to figure out. 
{{markup|
<nowiki>{{Infobox person/Wikidata
 | qid = Q325679
 | fetchwikidata = ALL
 | onlysourced   = yes 
 | image         = 
 | caption       = 
 | birth_name    = 
 | birth_date    = 
 | birth_place   = 
 | spouse        = 
 |module            = {{Infobox member of the Knesset
   |embed           = yes
   | Year of Aliyah = 1933
   | Knesset(s)     = [[Israeli legislative election, 1965|6]], [[Israeli legislative election, 1969|7]], [[Israeli legislative election, 1977|9]]
   | party1         = [[Meri (political party)|Meri]]
   | partyyears1    = 1965–1974
   | party2         = [[Left Camp of Israel]]
   | partyyears2    = 1979–1981
  }}
}}</nowiki>|{{Infobox person/Wikidata
 | qid = Q325679
 | fetchwikidata = ALL
 | onlysourced   = yes 
 | image         = 
 | caption       = 
 | birth_name    = 
 | birth_date    = 
 | birth_place   = 
 | spouse        = 
 |module            = <nowiki>{{Infobox member of the Knesset
   |embed           = yes
   | Year of Aliyah = 1933
   | Knesset(s)     = [[Israeli legislative election, 1965|6]], [[Israeli legislative election, 1969|7]], [[Israeli legislative election, 1977|9]]
   | party1         = [[Meri (political party)|Meri]]
   | partyyears1    = 1965–1974
   | party2         = [[Left Camp of Israel]]
   | partyyears2    = 1979–1981
  }}</nowiki>
}}}}<!-- Template:Mra -->

=== [[Template:Coord]] ===
A convenient javascript function to extract coordinates from console of a Google maps web page in nearly any browser for the Coordinate values in the Infobox;<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
(function () { var matches = location.toString().match("\/maps\/.*@([0-9.-]+),([0-9.-]+)"); prompt('',"{{coord|" + matches[1] + "|" +   matches[2] + "}}"); }());
</syntaxhighlight>

== Gadgets and tools ==

* Trying to update publications with a wikidata author item? Use https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/ which I made extensive use of in [[Paul Brombacher]]'s dozens of publications.