Bahaidata:Main Page
Welcome to Bahaidata.org. This project is in one part intended to serve the needs of Bahaipedia.org and Bahai.works by centralizing information that might be referenced on both websites. Modules written in Lua are used to query and process data stored here. An example use case are articles in the magazine World Order which might be cited on Bahaipedia, and also listed on an author's page on Bahai.works. Instead of copying this information to two different sites (or duplicating it across many different articles), we can organize it here and then any site or page can make a request to retrieve and display its publication data.
Another purpose of Bahaidata is to allow the family of sister wikis (Bahaipedia.org, Bahai9.com, Bahai.media, and Bahai.works) to have interconnections documented such that visiting a page on one wiki dedicated to a particular topic can lead one directly to another wiki's page on the same topic. If correspondences are present for a given page, you can see them listed in a "In other projects" menu of the toolbar (or laid out directly in the toolbar for Bahai9).
To date, Bahaidata holds information about 6,759 items.
Completed data sets
All books listed on Bahai.works
There are about 300 books listed on Bahai.works, editors on Bahaipedia can now cite from any of them by just copying one line of code. Listed below the publication details will be a note in the format of {{cite|Q6200|pgs}}, copying that to Bahaipedia will generate a full citation for the listed publication.
World Order Magazine
We have added data on volumes, issues, articles and authors part of World Order series one 1935-1949 and two 1966-2007. The structure of this data is:
- World Order (Q12) or (Q2079)
- > "has volume" (P2) [Items for Vols]
- > "has issue" (P3) [List of issues, per volume]
- > "has article" (P4) [List of articles per issue]
The structure for an Article (for example Q16) is:
- Article item
- > Part of issue (P7)
- > Instance of (P12) [Used in the case of an editorial (Q19), poem (Q44), compilation (Q65), excerpt (Q426), index (Q540), book review (Q1238), illustration (Q1497), outline (Q1552)]
- > Author (P10) [An item representing a person or Q1835 for "author unknown"]
- > Editor (P14)
- > Translator (P32)
- > Page(s) (P6)
The structure for a person, (for example an author Q741) is:
- Person item
- > Has authored (P11)
- > Has edited (P15)
- > Has translated (P33)
Other properties such as birth and death dates, image are available, consult the list of properties. Bahaipedia will automatically include some of these details in articles as part of the Infobox Person template.
Example usage on Bahaipedia
- We can build complete citations for books or periodicals with just a reference to the title, volume, issue and page number. See examples here.
- On the Bahaipedia article Marzieh Gail all the information in the infobox on the right side of the page comes from Q741.
Example usage on Bahai.works
Completed correspondences
The wikis Bahaipedia, Bahai9, and Bahai.media should all have relevant pages corresponded one to the other (not including the Category namespace of Bahaipedia and Bahai9). Bahai.works is corresponded to the other wikis based on its Author namespace only.
