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Odd HTML anchor
[edit]I was looking to link to an authority control box, and found this HTML markup (from The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up):
<div id="Authority_control_databases_frameless&#124;text-top&#124;10px&#124;alt=Edit_this_at_Wikidata&#124;link=https&#58;//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7749994#identifiers&#124;class=noprint&#124;Edit_this_at_Wikidata539" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Help:Authority_control" title="Help:Authority control">Authority control databases</a>
Why the escaped markup as an HTML anchor? This seems like a bug. Daask (talk) 18:21, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
- That escaped markup seems like the output of Module:EditAtWikidata encoded/escaped twice:
Authority_control_databases_frameless|text-top|10px|alt=Edit_this_at_Wikidata|link=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7749994#identifiers|class=noprint|Edit_this_at_Wikidata539
- The code currently at Module:Authority control#L-335 appends an edit at Wikidata pencil icon to the "Authority control databases" navbox title. Unfortunately Module:Navbox#L-192 uses that navbox title for the id value:
:attr('id', mw.uri.anchorEncode(args[cfg.arg.title]) .. args.argHash)Perhaps Module:Navbox needs an optional anchor parameter to use instead of the navbox title? Daask (talk) 19:26, 23 April 2026 (UTC)- Reported at Template talk:Navbox § Bug in anchors for navboxes with markup in title Daask (talk) 19:33, 23 April 2026 (UTC)
- What would be a suitable value to use for this attribute? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:48, 23 April 2026 (UTC)
- Can we just use
id="authority control"? There should never be more than one of these templates on an article, so this would be unique. I am aware of some userpages with more than one, but perhaps this does not matter — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:34, 24 April 2026 (UTC)- A little research indicates this bug has been around since 2019 when anchors for the authority control navbox were first introduced, so continuity with past practice doesn't matter. I agree that we don't need to worry about duplicate anchor issues from repeated template invocation on the same page, but we do need to consider name collision with article headings. Since MediaWiki replaces spaces in headings with underscore, I think we should be safe using a hyphen instead and a lowercase first letter. How about "authority-control"? The
idattribute may not contain whitespace per HTML5 spec. Daask (talk) 21:56, 25 April 2026 (UTC)- @Daask I have implemented this in the sandbox, and tested at User:MSGJ/Sandbox/4. For some reason it is using
id="authority-control719". I'm not sure where the 719 comes from? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:20, 21 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Daask I have implemented this in the sandbox, and tested at User:MSGJ/Sandbox/4. For some reason it is using
- A little research indicates this bug has been around since 2019 when anchors for the authority control navbox were first introduced, so continuity with past practice doesn't matter. I agree that we don't need to worry about duplicate anchor issues from repeated template invocation on the same page, but we do need to consider name collision with article headings. Since MediaWiki replaces spaces in headings with underscore, I think we should be safe using a hyphen instead and a lowercase first letter. How about "authority-control"? The
- Can we just use
Whitelist for Ukraine
[edit]There ought to be a whitelist for Ukraine, code ua, including the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID (P9070)) and Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID (P4613)).
These two ID’s can also be added to the arts whitelist as they have articles about artists, arts groups, art movements, and related subjects. ~2026-27114-97 (talk) 19:34, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
- Created
uawhitelist. Awaiting consensus on adding these to the arts whitelist — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:24, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Parsifal cluster ID (P12458)
[edit]Proposal Parsifal cluster ID (P12458) Union of Roman ecclesiastical libraries.
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Grimes2 12:37, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
- If used, it should preferably link to the English language page[1], not the Italian one. But it seems like this site has IDs for many writers, but without actual info[2]. Thousands of links which lead to even more uninformative repetitions of the same info, just because another (group of) organisations has created their own ID, seems utterly pointless clutter. Someone like David Foster Wallace has on Wikidata some 140 IDs (very rough count), including Parsifal. There seems to be no good reason why enwiki should have all or most of these as well, they belong at the database (Wikidata), not at the encyclopedia (enwiki). Fram (talk) 13:00, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
GND format
[edit]Just noting here that the GND format seems to have changed [3]. This will probably need updating here, as John Christian Frederick Heyer is currently throwing an error — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:00, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Fixed — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:24, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
