This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before changing this template.
From the TfD closure: "[...] works-in-progress should rarely be used in the article space until they are 99% finished/accurate/etc. Until the matter of transcluding Wikidata on Wikipedia is resolved (most likely with a huge and contentious RFC) usage of this template should be extremely vetted to ensure that all of the transcluded information is accurate."
A wrapper for {{Citation}}, which calls available values from Wikidata.
An example of an article using this template for all of its references is South Pole Telescope; an example using Harvard style citations is Suffix automaton.
By default, if there are more than eight author names, the template displays three, followed by "et al". This can be changed using |display-authors=; using that parameter with no value displays them all. The same applies to multiple editors - see the test-case pages.
Citations of papers which have been retracted (is retracted by (P5824)) will appear in Category:Cite Q - cites a retracted work.
Citations of papers which have been replaced (replaced by (P1366)) will appear in Category:Cite Q - cites a replaced work.
You can also use {{Cite Q bulleted}} if you want to have a bullet returned before the citation (useful for automatic lists).
Parameters
|1= = Wikidata QID for the article
Additionally, any named parameter used in {{citation}} may be entered and will overwrite the value in Wikidata. Using such parameters, with a value of unset, will suppress display of data from Wikidata.
Blank
{{Cite Q| XXQIDXX }}
Reference naming
For ease of use, you may wish to name your references to reflect the cited work, for example:
{{Cite Q|Q15625490}}
Parameter / entity map
This section lists where each of the template's supported parameters gets its data.
Andy Mabbett (2010), Chris Charlesworth (ed.), Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery, Omnibus Press, OCLC762731304, WikidataQ25766745
{{Cite Q|Q25766745 |chapter=The Final Cut}} (with chapter specified)
Andy Mabbett (2010), "The Final Cut", in Chris Charlesworth (ed.), Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery, Omnibus Press, OCLC762731304, WikidataQ25766745
{{Cite Q|Q25766745 |pages=48-52}} (with pages)
Andy Mabbett (2010), Chris Charlesworth (ed.), Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery, Omnibus Press, pp. 48–52, OCLC762731304, WikidataQ25766745
Andy Mabbett (2010). Chris Charlesworth (ed.). Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. Omnibus Press. OCLC762731304. WikidataQ25766745.
{{Cite Q|Q25766745|mode=cs2}}
Andy Mabbett (2010), Chris Charlesworth (ed.), Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery, Omnibus Press, OCLC762731304, WikidataQ25766745
{{Cite Q|Q25766745|author-mask=1}}
— (2010), Chris Charlesworth (ed.), Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery, Omnibus Press, OCLC762731304, WikidataQ25766745
For additional examples, see testcases and testcases/many names.
Workflow
The template used with a single parameter, the Q-number of the article on Wikidata, will produce a citation using the default display parameters from Template:Citation and the styling of the author and editor names as they are stored on Wikidata. This is rarely the same as required by the citation formatting in any given article. The guidance at WP:CITEVAR requires that editors match the formatting of citations that they add to that of the article where it is added. At present, {{Cite Q}} does not know what style the formatting in an article requires (although it is possible that common styles could be marked or recognised automatically as is done for date formatting).
The result is that editors using {{Cite Q}} must take care to preview their edits and ensure that the formatting rendered matches that of the rest of the article. The commonest formatting issues are:
If that were used in an article that used "Last, First" format for author names, then the editor would have to supply those author names manually in the desired format. It's often worth previewing the citation in expanded form to show what is being passed to the actual citation template:
{{Cite Q |Q15625490 |expand=yes}} →
{{Cite journal |author1=Jeffrey T. Williams |author2=Kent E. Carpenter |author3=James L. Van Tassell |author4=Paul Hoetjes |author5=Wes Toller |author6=Peter Etnoyer |author7=Michael Smith |bibcode=2010PLoSO...510676W |doi=10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0010676 |id=WikidataQ15625490 |issn=1932-6203 |issue=5 |journal=PLOS One |language=en |pmc=2873961 |pmid=20505760 |publication-date=21 May 2010 |title=Biodiversity Assessment of the Fishes of Saba Bank Atoll, Netherlands Antilles |url=http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/20505760 |volume=5}}
That would make the author names (and author-links) easily available for copy and paste, followed by tweaking into the desired format:
{{Cite Q |Q15625490 |author6=Etnoyer, Peter |author4=Hoetjes, Paul |author7=Smith, Michael |author5=Toller, Wes |author3=van Tassell, James L |author-link2=Kent E. Carpenter |author1=Williams, Jeffrey T |author2=Carpenter, Kent E}} →
The separators between elements in the above citation is a comma, which is the default for a CS2-style format produced by {{Citation}}. Careful examination in a particular article will often show the separator punctuation to be a full stop (period). That may be selected by setting |mode=cs1:
{{Cite Q |Q15625490 |author6=Etnoyer, Peter |author4=Hoetjes, Paul |author7=Smith, Michael |author5=Toller, Wes |author3=van Tassell, James L |author-link2=Kent E. Carpenter |author1=Williams, Jeffrey T |author2=Carpenter, Kent E |mode=cs1}} →
Sometimes, the article will have author names with initials, and those initials are terminated with a full stop (period). It may be necessary to manually add or remove the punctuation in the author names to match the style of the target article (note: this does not apply to author-links, which match the title of the author's article):
{{Cite Q |Q15625490 |author6=Etnoyer, Peter |author4=Hoetjes, Paul |author7=Smith, Michael |author5=Toller, Wes |author3=van Tassell, James L. |author-link2=Kent E. Carpenter |author1=Williams, Jeffrey T. |author2=Carpenter, Kent E. |mode=cs1}} →
Titles drawn from Wikidata cannot contain formatting, so editors using {{Cite Q}} may have to add appropriate formatting.
{{Citation}} will automatically apply italicisation to titles of books, etc. so that does not need to be added:
{{Cite Q |Q25766745}} →
Andy Mabbett (2010), Chris Charlesworth (ed.), Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery, Omnibus Press, OCLC762731304, WikidataQ25766745
However, some titles require partial italicisation, and that has to be done manually when the whole title is not italicised, although that is rare. Titles of chapters may also need to be checked:
For example (from ISBN978-0-521-32115-0): |chapter= ''Porphyra'' as food: cultivation and economic
Module:Wd
Module:Wd can automatically cause this template to be invoked, e.g.,
Once robust the functionality should be merged into {{Citation}}
Eventually, each signed-in reader should be able to set, under their "Preferences", the style in which they wish to see citations rendered. No more CiteVar wars!
We should have a global template repository, so the code can be used by multiple wikis, without having to manually copy it after every update.
Regardless of which of the above is used, link to the author biography article if available, via author (P50) (matched via series ordinal (P1545) if applicable)
Add tracking categories for each parameter where the local value differs from the corresponding WD value so that either the WD entry can be updated/corrected or the local override can be corrected/removed
Other tracking categories?
Links to sister projects: Wikisource, if a transcription project exists; Wikibooks; Wikiversity (esp. the Wikijournals there); perhaps more
Avoid {{Cite Q|Q100160262}} {{cite wikisource|wslanguage=pt|wslink=Diccionario Bibliographico Brazileiro/Francisco Antonio de Almeida|title=Transcription}}!
Where there is a Wikipedia article about the work cited, link the title to that, overriding the URL if necessary (example: d:Q25766745)
Ditto for editions of works
At present a WD pages entry of "1" will result in |pages=1–1 (and metadata &rft.pages=1-1) rather than |page=1 (and metadata &rft.pages=1).
Implement evaluation of generic keyword for all parameters to denote that a WD value should be accepted by framing its value in accept-this-as-written markup ((..)). See talk thread for possible keyword names.
Check all parameter aliases when scanning for override parameters (at present some alias parameter names are ignored, possibly leading to inconsistent behaviour if they are set as well).
Take possible template parameter usage as hint which parameter to use in the generated output. F.e. if the journal/magazine/newspaper parameter is used, the template should use the same in the output. The underlying template {citation} will switch the output format accordingly.
Try to utilize given parameter values as filter for retrieved WD data. If an editor specifies |edition=2 or |volume=3, cite Q should select correlating data (f.e. page ranges, identifiers etc.) while retrieving data from WD (in cases where more than one entry is available for a particular parameter)
When the author is cited as various authors (Q2818964), the label should start with an upper case letter
Quick and dirty workaround: {{ucfirst:{{Cite Q|xxxx}}
Convert WikiData's edition number (e.g., 1) into the ordinal (1st) expected by {{citation}}.
Fix unnecessary piping of author/editor and journal links if link and label are the same, f.e. [[Author|Author]] -> [[Author]], [[Journal|Journal]] -> [[Journal]] for improved reusability, cleaniness of output, reduced size of resulting page code, and to avoid potential future extra text errors thrown by the underlying {citation} template
See talk
Fix invocation with |qid= instead of unnamed parameter. At present {{cite Q|qid=Q12345}} instead of {{cite Q|Q12345}} gives an error.