I started an article about Stuart Stanton (surgeon). Having added a pro forma {{authority control}}, I looked around for a way to link him and found his Scopus id. But I couldn't figure out how to add this to the template and so left it as a comment. I was pleased to see just now that Miraclepine has sorted this out and suppose they did so mainly on Wikidata. I didn't feel comfortable doing that so would be grateful to hear more about how this was done, please. Usually with other ids like VIAF, I add them to the template and then a bot or script moves the info to Wikidata. Is Scopus different? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew Davidson (talk • contribs)
The template does not recognise any identifiers passed as parameters, everything comes from Wikidata. The best way to link a new article is to add it as a site link to the Wikidata item. You can also use the |qid= parameter to specify an item (but this will be ignored as soon as the article is linked) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:58, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The current code has been working well for nearly a year without any complaints. Any templates with added parameters are tracked via this category and I have been monitoring this category regularly, and transferring any identifiers to Wikidata as necessary. It has slowed to a trickle recently, and in most cases it is an article which has been copied from German Wikipedia (they don't seem to be using Wikidata there yet) and it just needs linking to the correct item with the |qid= parameter — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:36, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
How did you know it was [0-7] or was that a guess? In future, we could simplify this and just check for 5 digits — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:49, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay :) So unless we have further information on what the valid formats are, I suggest at next update to use [4-6]%d%d%d%d, i.e. a digit between 4 and 6, followed by 4 digits. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:06, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think we need to update the pattern for SIKART person ID (P781). The regular expression is now ^(person|group|institution|work|document)-\d+$ and there are more than 1000 pages in the error category — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:07, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I had discussed this on a conference call with the Wikidata group of local libraries and GLAM institutions some time last year and also separately in the Wikidata Telegram channel in October 2024:
I had proposed the following options at https://t.me/c/1224298920/135813 and let people vote (my own vote is one of the "I just want to see the results"), below a copy from what you see at the link right now:
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How to encourage the use of the "SIK-ISEA ID" identifier instead of "SIKART ID" in the future?
43% of votes: Rename the existing identifier and expand its scope, keep the old name as an alias
5% of votes: propose a new identified, mark P781 as deprecated, migrate everything to the new property
9% of votes: I'm undecided
43% of votes: I just want to see the results
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Regarding the account name, you can read my name on my user page, I'm the only person editing from this account. I wanted to make my affiliation with the institution clear and had also made a statement regarding paid editing on my user page.
Regarding the changes in references, this is one of the next steps. As I mentioned this is work in progress which I started yesterday after seeing all the broken links for groups.
Perhaps conversation and documentation should continue on the talk page for this property at d:Property talk:P781. At a glance, it seems that we have a plan, a community conversation, and a consensus process in place, so that seems great. The current amount of documentation seems good to me. I would like anyone who probes a bit to be able to confirm that this discussion exists. Bluerasberry (talk)16:39, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'll keep you posted when a change will become necessary to still work for persons and groups, it's possible that they will have separate identifiers in the future. PB (SIK-ISEA) (talk) 17:41, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Deployed — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:36, 23 June 2025 (UTC)