Module:Wikidata label/doc

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Documentation

The module provides functions to fetch from Wikidata labels, aliases or sitelinks for specific item in specific language. Each function can be called both from Lua and from Wikitext templates. Used by {{Label}} template.

getLabel

This function returns a label translated to the desired language and linking to desired project, created based on Wikidata.

Call from template

{{#invoke:Wikidata label|getLabel |item=<''item ID''> |lang=<''language''> |link=<''link type''> |capitalization=,''capitalization style''> }}

Calls from Lua

require('Module:Wikidata label')._getLabel( item, [lang] , [link_type] , [capitalization] )

Inputs

Name	Function	Default
item	Wikidata item ID number in form "Q" + item number. Also works with Wikidata properties if you use "P"+number.	(required field)
lang	Language code (only needs to be provided if the language displayed is to be fixed and independent of the user’s preferences).	{{int:lang}}
link	link type: wikipedia will try to link to Wikipedia (does not work for properties) wikidata to Wikidata commons to Commons (does not work for properties) - (or no) means no link. The code will first try the link of your choice, then, if it is unable to link to that, it will fallback and try linking to Wikipedia, and if that is not possible then it will link to Wikidata.	wikipedia
capitalization	can be: uc: upper case lc: lower case ucfirst: upper case for the first letter lcfirst: lower case for the first letter none: to leave it as is	none

sitelinks

This function returns a list of sitelinks for a single project organized by language

Call from template

{{#invoke:Wikidata label|sitelinks |item=<''item ID''> |project=<''project''> }}

Calls from Lua

require('Module:Wikidata label')._sitelinks( item, project )

Inputs

Name	Function
item	Wikidata item ID number in form "Q" + item number or entity class
project	"wikipedia" (or "wiki"), "wikisource", "wikiquote", "wikibooks", "wikinews", "wikiversity", "wikivoyage", "wiktionary", etc.

Output

• for sitelinks a comma separated list
• for _sitelinks a lua table

aliases

This function returns a list of aliases for a single language

Call from template

{{#invoke:Wikidata label|aliases |item=<''item ID''> |lang=<''language''> }}

Calls from Lua

require('Module:Wikidata label')._aliases( item, lang )

Inputs

Name	Function
item	Wikidata item ID number in form "Q" + item number or entity class
lang	Language code

Output

• for aliases a comma separated list
• for _aliases a lua table