Template talk:Authority control

Recent changes by Uzume
Uzume has made some changes to Module:Authority control/config and Module:Authority control/auxiliary without any discussion. I'm opening this thread to give him/her the chance to explain and justify these changes &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:54, 30 March 2024 (UTC)


 * @MSGJ: I added NCDA-based check digit validation to BNF identifiers as per my edit summaries. I am open to any discussion you might have on the topic. —Uzume (talk) 15:05, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Looks reasonable (assuming it validates as intended).  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  12:31, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Tom.Reding: Well I already repaired a few that were found in and, namely these: 2114652282 and 2114741860. So presumably it is doing a better job than before since validation now compares the last character against a computed checksum vs. just matching against the very liberal bracketed Lua pattern:  . It also still uses a Lua pattern to ensure the rest of the string is exactly eight decimal digits. I would be interested to hear if you find any false positives or negatives with the "check digit" algorithm. I personally think Wikidata should redefine  to just be the eight digits and use something else to generate the identifier links (including the check digit) but that is a different problem needing a bigger solution (since it affects nearly 700k Wikidata items and numerous templates and thereby even more pages at several WMF sites that are consuming the Wikidata items). —Uzume (talk) 14:07, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Recategorisation of Te Papa authority ID
The ID for Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Collections Online is currently categorised 'Artists' but this database includes a wide range of people, organisations, and other entities like vessels. Should it be changed to 'Other'? Avocadobabygirl (talk) 22:25, 16 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Changed on the sandbox, example below


 * &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:37, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Edit request 5 June 2024
Description of suggested change: Edit Module:Authority control/config to insert Parliament of Australia ID underneath "ARLHS":

Note: tested at Module:Authority control/sandbox and works accordingly (see here and here).

GMH Melbourne (talk) 03:59, 5 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Could the label be shortened somehow? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:41, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Perhaps AUPARL, similar to UKPARL? GMH Melbourne (talk) 09:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @MSGJ: Sorry, I misread your question, perhaps "Australian Parliament", "AUS Parliament", or "Parliament of Australia" could work? — GMH Melbourne (talk) 10:37, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Happy with whichever one of those you think is best. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:25, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @MSGJ: Australian Parliament GMH Melbourne (talk) 14:17, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅. For future info, we have Module:Authority control/config/staging to prepare code for deploying to live version. So you can leave people's experiments in Module:Authority control/config/sandbox &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:37, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry! I have found a better URL from which 'https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=$1' is sourced from. It is https://handbook.aph.gov.au/Parliamentarian/$1 I have already changed it in the wikidata property. Thank you. GMH Melbourne (talk) 16:06, 5 June 2024 (UTC)


 * are there additional edits to be made, or is this resolved? Rjjiii  (talk) 22:49, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Rjjiii Yes, at Module:Authority control/config, replace  with   GMH Melbourne (talk) 04:22, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Done and tested., I made the change directly to the live template after testing with URLs. Do I also need to make the change to /sandbox or /staging for the future? Rjjiii  (talk) 05:13, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

EU MEP (1186) addition
might be interesting and straightforward to implement. Ipr1 (talk) 05:32, 18 June 2024 (UTC)