Module talk:Sandbox/Tom.Reding/Tools

ResolveEntityId inconsistency?[edit]

Ahecht, I have a function that I expect to output "Aridibacter Q26209683 Q16521 (taxon) Q34740 genus - child has description: genus of bacteria" when an entity ID is found.

However, the function did not succeed on Aridibacter (Q26209683) until I made an edit by adding a sitelink, so I thought the problem was simply a null edit problem at Wikidata.

However however, my function currently doesn't work on Blastopirellula (Q26219523): "Blastopirellula Q# not on Wikidata OR no sitelink" ('Q# not found on Wikidata'). I've made a dummy edit to Blastopirellula (Q26219523), but there's still a problem with resolveEntity._id, it seems. Do you know what's going on? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 23:59, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like a site link is required for resolveEntity._id to work - all of the 45 links in my sandbox were 'Q# not found on Wikidata' until I added site links to most of them. Will think about including this behavior in Module:ResolveEntityId/doc. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 06:00, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Tom.Reding: resolveEntityId relies on mw.wikibase.isValidEntityId() which, as you guessed, requires a local page existing that is linked to the Wikidata item. --Ahecht (TALK
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