Template:Biography/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Biography.
It contains usage information, categories, and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Usage

A template to display a standard-formatted author biography.

This template is undergoing active development. Parameters may be changed or removed without notice. Formatting may be suboptimal. You are welcome to be involved in developing and testing it, in which case please use it sparingly. Otherwise, please kindly wait until this notice is removed.

Soon, it will be possible to populate a blank instance of the template from Wikidata.

Blank

{{Biography
| name           = 
| alias          = 
| image          = 
| image_caption  = 
| birth_year     = 
| death_year     = 
| flourished     = 
| description    = 
| organisation   = 
| botanist_name  = 
| zoologist_name = 
| ipni_author_id = 
| username       = 
| taxa           = 
| patronyms      = 
| website        = 
| zoobank        = 
| VIAF           = 
| ISNI           = 
| ORCID          = 
| BNF            = 
| SUDOC          = 
| LCCN           = 
| SELIBR         = 
}}

Parameters

All parameters are optional.

name: defaults to the BASEPAGENAME if no value entered; equals Wikdiata's label (always in English?)
alias: other names (e.g. married names, names in non-western scripts); use {{Lang}} where appropriate; equals Wikidata's aliases (perhaps also non-English labels?)
image: bare file name (no File: prefix); P18
image_caption: may include links
birth_year: must be a four-digit number; extract from P569
death_year: must be a four-digit number; extract from P570
flourished: year or dash-separated year-range; does not display if birth or death year is present; P1317 or P2031-P2032
nationality: P27
role: a single word, to which an "s" suffix may be added for the category; P106 (n.b. may contain other roles)
description: prose description; possibly Wikidata description
organisation: either prose, or a wikilink to the repository page
botanist_name: text abbreviation of the name; P428
ipni_author_id: official International Plant Names Index ID; P586
zoologist_name: text abbreviation of the name; P835
username: Wikispecies (or Wikimedia) username; only if the subject has themselves linked their identities; P553, qualified with P554
taxa: any value will cause a link to the related category to display; n/a
patronyms: any value will cause a link to the related category to display; n/a
website: enter a bare URL; P856
zoobank: Zoobank identifier; for http://zoobank.org/Authors/844833D1-FB4B-4B12-8A64-8468787E50FB, use 844833D1-FB4B-4B12-8A64-8468787E50FB; P2006
VIAF: See {{Authority control}}
ISNI: See {{Authority control}}
ORCID: See {{Authority control}}; en:WP:ORCID
BNF: See {{Authority control}}
SUDOC: See {{Authority control}}
LCCN: See {{Authority control}}
SELIBR: See {{Authority control}}

Examples

Carolus Linnaeus

{{Biography
| name           = Carolus Linnaeus
| image          = Carl von Linné.jpg
| image_caption  = Carolus Linnaeus (1775) by Alexander Roslin
| alias          = Carl von Linné; Carl Linnaeus
| birth_year     = 1707 
| death_year     = 1778
| nationality    = Swedish
| role           = biologist
| description    = Founder of the modern classification system for all living organisms. Ennobled in 1761.
| botanist_name  = L.
| zoologist_name = Linnaeus
| ipni_author_id = 12653-1
| zoobank        = 02B13D48-53C8-42E7-A2B8-31D3A458D9AF
| taxa           = yes
| LCCN           = n/79/109333
| PND            = 118573349
| VIAF           = 34594730
| SELIBR         = 253377
}}

See: [1]

Andrew D. Warren

{{Biography
| name         = Andrew D. Warren
| nationality  = United States
| role         = entomologist
| organisation = [[MCUF|McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity]]
| taxa         = yes
| website      = http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mcguire/profiles/warren.htm
}}

See: [2]

Zeki Aytaç

{{Biography
| name          = Zeki Aytaç
| nationality   = Turkish 
| role          = botanist 
| flourished    = 1991
| botanist_name = Aytaç
}}

R.D.M. Page

{{Biography
| name      = R.D.M. Page
| alias     = Roderic Dugald Morton Page
| taxa      = yes
| patronyms = yes
| zoobank   = 6899544A-A593-43B8-8DA0-2EF919917B52
| ORCID     = 0000-0002-7101-9767
| BNF       = 13609973g
| SUDOC     = 059384239 
| VIAF      = 49396947
| ISNI      = 0000 0001 1638 4238
}}

See: [3]

Microformat

This template emits an hCard microformat, to make key biographical data machine-readable. Please therefore do not remove the HTML classes: adr, country-name, fn, label, n, nickname, note, org, role, url, or vcard; and do not collapse the <div>, <span> or other elements containing them.

To do

Add alt attribute for images
Add a parameter for linked institutions (i.e. with a page on Wikispecies)
Add separate address/ contact fields?
Other parameters?
Refine categories
- Create category pages
- Make some categories hidden (see markup, below)
Call values from Wikidata, once possible

markup for hidden categories:

__HIDDENCAT__

[[Category:Hidden categories]]