Module:Authority control/config/doc

Contains configuation details for Module:Authority control.

Syntax

The syntax for the p.config table is as follows:

• Codename for identifier, inside quotation marks.
• property = Wikidata property number, without the prefix P.
• section = section number to place the identifier. See #List of sections for details.
• pattern = Lua pattern of valid format for identifier. Note this is similar but not identical to a regular expression. If this is omitted, then the module will not check the validity of the identifiers.
• link = the URL of the external page with details of the identifier. The code $1 will be replaced with the identifier.
• label = the label for the link.
• remark = a brief explanation of the authority control database, for use on the documentation of Template:Authority control only.

Example

The syntax below generates a link to the Dictionary of Irish Biography in section 5. It gets its data from Wikidata property (P6829) and identifiers need to be in the following form: 0, followed by 0 or 1, followed by 4 digits, possibly followed by a decimal point and then a letter from A to D.

{'DIB',
	property = 6829,
	section = 5,
	pattern = '^0[01]%d%d%d%d%.?[A-D]?$',
	link = 'https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.$1.v1',
	label = 'Ireland',
},

Advanced parameters

• patterns = if more than one Lua pattern is needed, then use the plural form of this argument and include the comma-separated list of patterns enclosed by curly braces.
• prefix = a prefix to be included before the links. In this case numbers 1, 2, ... will be used as the labels and the label field will be ignored.
• valid = the name of a custom Lua function in /auxiliary used to determine if the identifier is valid or not, in case the pattern method cannot be used. It should return false if the identifier is invalid.
• customlink = the name of a custom Lua function in /auxiliary which will produce the entire external link. It should return false if the identifier is invalid.
• suppressedbyproperty = if this identifier should not be displayed if other identifiers are present, then specify them here in a comma-separated list enclosed by curley braces.

See also

• Module:Authority control/auxiliary