Issue: Pull data from WikiData API

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August 15, 2018 11:11 AM

Alfa1

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Pull data from WikiData API

WikiData has 50 million data items which are free to reuase and for which wikidata has an API:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/API
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php

Wikipedia and many other sites use these data items to automatically fill in infoboxes, templates, maps, and many other things.

Please add integration so that we can pull in relevant data into our wiki articles.

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Issue Number 5440

Issue Type Feature

Project VaultWiki 4.x Series

Category Unknown

Status Suggested

Priority 8 - Major Features / Enhancements

Suggested Version 4.1.0 Alpha 1 Preview

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Software DependencyAny

License TypePaid

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February 3, 2019 8:49 AM

Alfa1

Distinguished Member

What I am suggesting is something similar to these XF addons:
https://xenforo.com/community/resour...foro-2-x.6050/
https://xenforo.com/community/resour...foro-2-x.5834/
https://xenforo.com/community/resour...foro-2-x.5700/
https://xenforo.com/community/resour...foro-2-x.5655/

These work as follows:
User enters ID from the respective database.
The function pulls the data for that entry from the respective database API.
The function populates XF custom fields with this data.

Such function for wikidata would be of immense value to Vaultwiki because we can then quickly populate our wiki's with loads of information.

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March 29, 2020 2:35 PM

Alfa1

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This feature would be an immense gamechanger for me. It would allow me to automatically enrich all my wiki articles and populate custom fields for those articles. Even stub articles would become rich in information. I would love that and I'm sure others would as well.
XenForo already has API functionality that can be reused.

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Issue: Pull data from WikiData API

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