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Instead of hand-creating an item per author or source, use the external-authority pages in the '''semantic tools''' sidebar. They fetch metadata from public services (Wikidata, dblp, OpenAlex, Crossref, Open Library, ORCID) | Instead of hand-creating an item per author or source, use the external-authority pages in the '''semantic tools''' sidebar. | ||
They fetch metadata from public services (Wikidata, dblp, OpenAlex, Crossref, Open Library, ORCID) and let you pick the right record. They create a local stub item with the authority identifiers (ORCID, VIAF, ISNI, DOI, ISBN, …) and citation metadata (given/family name, published in, publisher, pages, volume, issue) — every imported statement carries an <syntaxhighlight lang="text" inline>imported from <authority></syntaxhighlight> reference. | |||
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Revision as of 17:34, 19 August 2026
Instead of hand-creating an item per author or source, use the external-authority pages in the semantic tools sidebar.
They fetch metadata from public services (Wikidata, dblp, OpenAlex, Crossref, Open Library, ORCID) and let you pick the right record. They create a local stub item with the authority identifiers (ORCID, VIAF, ISNI, DOI, ISBN, …) and citation metadata (given/family name, published in, publisher, pages, volume, issue) — every imported statement carries an imported from <authority> reference.
| Page | Creates | Input |
|---|---|---|
| Special:AddPerson | a person item | ORCID iD, Wikidata Q, or a name |
| Special:AddSource | a work item (book, scholarly article, website, song, film, video) | DOI, ISBN-13, or a title |
| Special:AddCollective | a non-person agent item (organization, company, band, collective, institution) | a name |
Workflow: search → review the candidates (same-name disambiguation) → confirm the class (pre-inferred from the authority) → create. Repeating a lookup for an already-imported label reuses the existing item (create-or-skip). The English label comes from the authority; add fr/eo labels afterwards. Fetch failures degrade to manual item creation at Special:NewItem.
Notes:
- The authority lookups run only when you click search — never on page load.
- The provenance form on Special:AddQuotation (and the other content pages) has entity search + autofill for
attributed toandsource: type a name, pick the entity, the item id is filled in. Manually typed ids still work. - Citations use the source item's harvested metadata (journal name, publisher, volume/issue/pages, DOI, ISBN) and cite the source type correctly (a book quote cites as a book, a song quote as a song).
See also
- Help:Contributing — the hub
- Help:Contributing/entities — creating and editing items and properties