Forum:Automated Library Data Entries
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Notes (2019)
Curious to know how the Library Data Entries (Automated) works and how the data shown their on some pages gets to those pages.
It reads citations or hyperlinks.
- I can't recall which.
- I believe the talented Thomas Jones-Low wrote that code. Ask him.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 18:04, 24 September 2019 (EDT)
- The Template:LibraryEntries uses DynamicPageList, a wikimedia extension for running various queries against the underlying database. This template is generating (effectively) a slightly filtered version of the list generated by the "What links here" tool (see right hand menu). When you add a link to the New Traveller: Showing the Sunburst in an article, the list in the book article will automatically be updated. Normally I recommend using the Template: Ludography cite to set the link as it formats the entry correctly. Tjoneslo (talk) 17:22, 24 September 2019 (EDT)
So, hyperlinks.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 18:04, 24 September 2019 (EDT)
If you have a look at Dark Nebula (game), you will see there are a small number of Library Entries duplicated under Automated & Public. I assume this is because overtime they have been added to the various pages and therefore show under Automated. Would it be a 'Tidyup excerise' to then go back to pages and remove the duplicate entries from Public?
It's ok to have redundancy. It's part of the process of expanding the entries to make them easily searchable.
- Please see: Book Mapping
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 08:18, 29 September 2019 (EDT)