User:Shushugah/documentation

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 {{some_function}}. To use it with substitution (i.e. permanently create text at publish time, such as {{subst:some_function}}. A real example would be {{subst:Uw-plagiarism}} which can be found on Template:Uw-plagiarism. A common example would be signing posts with ~~~~. Templates are platform specific, and can accept arguments. Templates can be nested.

Useful templates

Inter Language Links Markup and repeat markup Userbox styling US Supreme court and Case law

Personal use cases

Markup and compiled result

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

Interlanguage Links

English wikilink with German and Hebrew interlanguage links in this edit

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{{ill|Jüdische Rundschau|de|Jüdische Rundschau|he|יידישה רונדשאו}}	Jüdische Rundschau

Nested infoboxes

Note the param module, and embed=yes. Used in this edit

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{{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 }} }}	Shushugah/documentation Avnery in 1965 Born Helmut Ostermann (1923-09-10)10 September 1923 Beckum, Germany Died 20 August 2018(2018-08-20) (aged 94) Tel Aviv, Israel {{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 }}

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.

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{{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 }} }}	Shushugah/documentation Born 10 September 1923  Died 20 August 2018  (aged 94) Spouse(s) Rachel Avnery  Website uriavnery.com  {{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 }} Position held Member of Knesset (1965–1969), Member of Knesset (1979–1981)

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;

(function () { var matches = location.toString().match("\/maps\/.*@([0-9.-]+),([0-9.-]+)"); prompt('',"{{coord|" + matches[1] + "|" +   matches[2] + "}}"); }());