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Bill Gates
Bill Gates
	Gates at the United States Department of Health and Human Services in March 2018
Born	William Henry Gates III; 28 October 1955; Seattle
Spouse(s)	Melinda Gates, married 1 January 1994
Children	3
Parents	Bill Gates Sr.; Mary Maxwell Gates;
Website	(invalid!) / ORIG: gatesnotes.org

Bill Gates
Bill Gates
	Gates at the United States Department of Health and Human Services in March 2018
Born	William Henry Gates III; October 28, 1955 (age 69); Seattle, Washington, U.S.

1 {{Commons category|Pocket watches}} ====> Category exists.

2 {{Commons|Pocket watches}} ====> Page does not exist.

Templates for inline text "Media related to ZZZZ at Wikimedia Commons:":

3 Media related to Pocket watches at Wikimedia Commons {{Commons-inline|Pocket watches}} ====> Page does not exist.

Test:

Related media at Wikimedia Commons:

How to Retrieve Data from Wikidata

Template: {{Wikidata}}

The following examples have been copied from the highly useful page Template:Wikidata#Examples.

These parameters retrieve a literal string value via "entity-ID"

NL → {{wikidata|property|eid=Q55|P395}}: Netherlands (Q55) | licence plate code (P395)
452 gram → {{wikidata|property|eid=Q21233320|P2067}} : Carl Zeiss Batis Sonnar T* 1.8/85 (Q21233320) | mass (P2067)
452 → Now truncated to numerical value only: → {{Trunc | {{wikidata|property|eid=Q21233320|P2067}} | {{Str find|{{wikidata|property|eid=Q21233320|P2067}}| }} }}

These parameters retrieve a property with its references (see bottom of page)

A total of 17,942,942^[1] people live in the Netherlands.

These parameters return the output in a custom format

- 17,942,942^[1]
  - 1 January 2024
- 17,590,672^[2]
  - 1 January 2022
- 17,407,585^[2]
  - 1 January 2020
- 17,282,163^[2]
  - 1 January 2019
- 17,181,084^[2]
  - 1 January 2018
- 17,081,507^[3]
  - 1 January 2017
- 17,000,000^[4]
  - 21 March 2016
- 16,829,289^[5]
  - 26 August 2014
- 16,779,575^[6]
  - 2013
- 10,026,773^[6]
  - 1950

These parameters retrieve a raw date value

2014-08-26

Template: {{Wikidata+icon}}

Wikidata ()
Wikidata

String manipulation functions

These string manipulation functions are required to alter values from Wikidata to a form suitable for Wikipedia.

10 → {{Str find|Panthera (genus)|(}}
9 → {{Str find|Panthera (genus)| }}
Panthera → {{Trunc | Panthera (genus) | {{Str find|Panthera (genus)| }} }}
452

SPARQL-QUERY

SPARQL-QUERY: queryStr=SELECT ?WikiData_item_ ?WikiData_item_Label ?value ?valueLabel ?English_WikiPedia_article  #Show data in this order
{
	?WikiData_item_ wdt:P18 ?value . #Collecting all items which have P18 data, from whole WikiData item pages
	OPTIONAL {?English_WikiPedia_article schema:about ?WikiData_item_; schema:isPartOf <https://en.wikipedia.org/> .} #If collected item has link to English WikiPedia, show that
	SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en"  } #Show label in this language. "en" is  English.   
}
LIMIT 10

query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT...

Note: causes a "java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException" for unknown reasons.

How to display Data Directly Derived from Wikidata within an Infobox

Wikidata entity: Bill Gates (Q5284)
image (P18), now thumb-sized and on the right:

birth name (P1477): William Henry Gates III

date of birth (P569) : 28 October 1955

spouse (P26): Melinda Gates

Commons category (P373): Bill Gates

Dutch flag:

Infobox as copied from

Infobox as above, but some parameters replaced by direct Wikidata calls via template "{{wikidata}}":

Remarkable Templates

Item one
item two
item three

Linking to other Wiki Projects

Wiki Commons

Link to Wiki Commons, text only, without displaying image: Passiflora caerulea stereo image - arranged L-R to be viewed with a stereo viewer, image separation approx. 25mm)

Image on display including both "ALT text" and an embedded link to Wiki Commons:

POTD attribbution box

Code to display the POTD attribution box within Wikipedia: {{picture of the day|2021-11-01}}:

This image was selected as picture of the day on the English Wikipedia for November 1, 2021.

Note (a): All attempts to summon this Wikipedia template from within Wiki Commons have, alas, as to now, been without avail!

Note (b): The Wikipedia template {{Template:POTD/2021-11-01}} displays the POTD image plus caption of an image that has appeared / will appear as Wikipedia:Picture of the day on a Wikipedia page. Extract from template: Use any valid date format for the template parameter. Pages with this template will be automatically placed into Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day files.

Picture of the day

Stereoscopy is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision.

This image of two Passiflora caerulea flowers is arranged as a stereo image pair; it can be viewed stereoscopically by using the cross-eyed viewing method (parallel version here).Photograph credit: Franz van Duns

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Note (c): The Wikipedia template {{Template:POTD}}, displays the current POTD image in a box of no more than 600 pixels wide on a Wikipedia page.

Picture of the day

Réunion stonechat

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

TEST CASE 04

Interwiki linking:

TEST CASE 05

Relations to Commons categories: Media related to Ursus maritimus at Wikimedia Commons

TEST CASE 06

Relations to Wikidata:

Create an Info box on the right → {{Wikidata property |1= P1164 |2= P2820}}

Create an Info box on the right → {{Wikidata property |Q21233320}}

Universe (Q1) → link to Wikidata entity "universe (Q1)"
cell component (P681) → link to Wikidata entity "cell component (P681)"
Wikidata: How to discriminate between instance of and subclass of.
- Wikidata: Help:Basic membership properties → This page explains the differences between the properties instance of (P31), subclass of (P279) and part of (P361).

TEST CASE 07

Special characters:

Character "&#x D8;" → Ø (expected "Ø")
Commons:File:Zeiss_Batis_Distagon_F2.8_18mm.jpg#Links → Inscription: "Distagon 2.8/18 Ø77 T* | Zeiss | Batis 2.8/18"
Character "&#x 2192" → → (expected "→")

TEST CASE 08

TEST TEST - TEST TEST

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Note: All references from above templates are displayed below this last line of code.

^ ^a ^b "Bevolking; kerncijfers (1950-2024)". Retrieved 22 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Bevolking; kerncijfers, 1950-2022".
^ "Bevolking; kerncijfers, 1950-2022". Retrieved 18 March 2023.
^ "Nederland telt 17 miljoen inwoners". 21 March 2016.
^ "CBS StatLine - Bevolking; kerncijfers". Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
^ ^a ^b "CBS StatLine - Bevolking; kerncijfers". Statistics Netherlands. Archived from the original on 27 August 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.

[wikidata-749cb702c62b89cd8868fb5c496cfa82218dae87-v18-1] "Bevolking; kerncijfers (1950-2024)". Retrieved 22 August 2024.

[wikidata-3abcb661cd2d0629bbc49088fa86f8b016fa3525-v18-2] "Bevolking; kerncijfers, 1950-2022".

[wikidata-4f58fc69480f96aaec74e771792854a11428895e-v18-3] "Bevolking; kerncijfers, 1950-2022". Retrieved 18 March 2023.

[wikidata-08fbc9797078849d8dc7b4754ad2109020d16f96-v18-4] "Nederland telt 17 miljoen inwoners". 21 March 2016.

[wikidata-475c2999c451e2e418b275ef9b087583a2db7228-v18-5] "CBS StatLine - Bevolking; kerncijfers". Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.

[wikidata-cb4c9d92a7876cfdfafdaf4b92634cba9063dac1-v18-6] "CBS StatLine - Bevolking; kerncijfers". Statistics Netherlands. Archived from the original on 27 August 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.

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