Module talk:European and national party data

Links to archive: Archive 1, Archive 2, Archive 3

Roadmap: translation


Task	Completion							Comments
Task	EN	FR	DE	NL	IT	ES	PT	Comments
Tests	N/A	Utilisateur	Community not interested	Gebruiker	Utente	Usuario	Usuário
Create module, config file, three templates	✅ module config	✅ module config		✅ module config	✅ module config	✅ module config	✅ module config
Validate module and templates	✅	❌		❌	❌	❌	✅	⚠️ Find way to translate hard-coded elements (EP, COR, all, seats, etc.) ❌ Find way to adapt to local structures of wikidata/wd and composition bar modules
Add untranslated documentation to module	N/A	✅		✅	✅	✅	✅
Add untranslated documentation to templates	N/A	❌		❌	❌	❌	❌
Translate config file	N/A	❌		❌	❌	❌	⚠️ Party names translated	Continue for PT with error messages
Add testcases	✅ testcases comp bar	❌		❌	❌	❌	✅ testcases comp bar
Deploy templates to EUPPs/EUPAs	✅	❌		❌	❌	❌	⚠️ Test EUPP and EPP	Continue for PT when hard-coding of translation is done
Deploy templates to national member parties	⚠️	❌		❌	❌	❌	❌

Reference files:

Synchronizer: Synchronizer
Module
Module sandbox
Templates
Wikidata items
Other
- Table mapping national parties to their European party of membership (also used to link a party or member state to its lower and upper houses)
- Module config file

Issues with national party seats in national legislatures

Hey @Trappist the monk, how are you? I am working on the translation of the module to use it across various Wikis, wanna help? I think key will be to find a way to localise the calls to Wikidata.

But a lower-hanging fruit is the case of Portugal, where the calls to wikidata and the composition bar are quite compatible with the English version. As you can see here and here, most tests work. The ones that don't seem to only concern the number of seats of national parties (called with their qIDs in the tests) in national legislatures, which would concern the function npp_seats_and_seat_share_in_national_institutions. However, I am not quite seeing what could be breaking it. Any ideas? Julius Schwarz (talk) 08:57, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I am thinking that the member state name may be translated. I am going to try and move from using the member state's name to its qID. Julius Schwarz (talk) 09:13, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that was it and I added european_party_qid and member_state_qid to the online table, in order to run checks on qIDs instead of on names. Julius Schwarz (talk) 13:06, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A quick look at de:Modul:Wikidata, es:Módulo:Wikidata, fr:Module:Wikidata, it:Modulo:Wikidata, nl:Module:Wikidata, pt:Módulo:Wikidata seems to show that while there may be similarities among them, they do not appear to be the same as en:Module:Wikidata. I suspect that the politics necessary to unify these modules would be a daunting task. Perhaps the better solution is to roll-your-own access to wikidata using the mw.wikibase library. Such documentation as there is for that is at https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/docs_topics_lua.html.

Similarly, you might also create a custom lua version of {{composition bar}} so that you avoid anomalous variations that might crop up at the various wiki language editions.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:18, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Trappist the monk, I can look into that, but that seems daunting too. I was kind of hoping that with a nice if conditionality on the language, we could spread the arguments as needed based on per-Wiki structures. But I will check your link.

The composition bar point is probably less feasible, since this template would most likely be sitting next to other composition bars and would therefore really need to look the exact same. Julius Schwarz (talk) 11:31, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]