Template:WD author
This template uses Lua: |
To list a work on an Author page where use of the author's name would be redundant; using information imported from Wikidata.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
QID Main | 1 qidmain | The wikidata number for the Main record. | String | required |
QID scan | 2 qidscan | The wikidata entry for the scan. | String | suggested |
Example edit
For a work written by John Napier where the name of the author is redundant (eg, on the author page)
{{WD author|Q107661385|Q107644932}}
produces:
The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms, translated by William Rae Macdonald (1889) (transcription project)
The second parameter is optional, so:
{{WD author|Q107661385}}
produces:
The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms, translated by William Rae Macdonald (1889) (transcription project)
more examples edit
The template is fairly flexible for the information it needs and can use and that is available:
* {{WD author|Q106941989}}
* {{WD author|Q19100550}}
- Beauty and the Beast, illustrated by Walter Crane (1874)
- "The tale of a youth who set out to learn what fear was", translated by May Sellar, edited by Andrew Lang, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, in The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
See Also edit
- {{WD version}} -- the full template
There are versions with each of the people fields excluded, for use on Author pages of the named person:
- {{WD translator}}
- {{WD editor}}
- {{WD illustrator}}