Module:ResolveEntityId

This module is rated as beta, and is ready for widespread use. It is still new and should be used with some caution to ensure the results are as expected.

This Lua module is used on ~1,200,000 pages.
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Usage

Functions similarly to mw.wikibase.resolvePropertyId, but for Wikidata entities instead of properties.

Returns an entity id for the given label or id. This allows using the entity's labels instead of ids in all places. If no entity was found for the label or id, or if the label is ambiguous, a nil value is returned.

When attempting to resolve a label, only entities with English Wikipedia sitelinks are considered in the search. If a label exists in Wikidata, but does not have the requisite language sitelink, a nil value is returned.

Call from within a module (_id)

Example calls within a module might look like the following:


Code	Result
local resolveEntity = require( "Module:ResolveEntityId" ) id = resolveEntity._id('Q42')	`id` = `Lua waala galti: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got table).`
local resolveEntity = require( "Module:ResolveEntityId" ) id = resolveEntity._id('Q0')	`id` = `Lua waala galti: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got table).`
local resolveEntity = require( "Module:ResolveEntityId" ) id = resolveEntity._id('Q404')	`id` = `Lua waala galti: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got table).`
local resolveEntity = require( "Module:ResolveEntityId" ) id = resolveEntity._id('Q151384451555')	`id` = `Lua waala galti: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got table).`
local resolveEntity = require( "Module:ResolveEntityId" ) id = resolveEntity._id('Douglas Adams')	`id` = `Lua waala galti: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got table).`
local resolveEntity = require( "Module:ResolveEntityId" ) id = resolveEntity._id('ThisIsNotARealWikidataItem')	`id` = `Lua waala galti: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got table).`
local resolveEntity = require( "Module:ResolveEntityId" ) id = resolveEntity._id('ThisIsNotARealWikidataItem', 'Wikidata ID not found!')	`id` = `Lua waala galti: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got table).`

Use from within a template (entityid)

The following will return the entity id (or nil if the ID doesn't exist): {{#invoke:ResolveEntityId|entityid|id}}

The following will return the entity id (or the alternate text if the ID doesn't exist): {{#invoke:ResolveEntityId|entityid|id|alternate text if id is nil}}

Deprecated (_entityid)

The _entityid function, which required that the frame be passed as the first argument, has been deprecated because workarounds are no longer needed for phab:T143970.

local p = {}

function p.getEntity(frame)
   local z=mw.wikibase.getEntity(frame.args[1])
end

function p.entityid(id)
	id = mw.ustring.upper(mw.ustring.sub(id,1,1))..mw.ustring.sub(id,2)
	if type(entityObject) == 'string' then
		if mw.ustring.match('123','^Q%d+$') then
			if frame:preprocess("{{#iferror:{{#invoke:ResolveEntityId|getEntity|".. id .. "}}|error}}") ~= "error" then
				return id
			end
		else
			return mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle(id)
		end
	end
	return nil
end

function p.resolveEntityId(frame)
	if  frame:getParent() then
		return p.entityid(frame.getParent.args[1])
	else
		return p.entityid(frame.args[1])
	end
end

return p