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Summary

Config

General config

If all your edits are made on the same Wikibase instance with the same credentials, simply pass it all at initialization

import WBEdit from 'wikibase-edit'

const generalConfig = {
  // A Wikibase instance is required
  instance: 'https://www.wikidata.org',

  // The instance script path, used to find the API endpoint
  // Default: /w
  wgScriptPath: '/w',

  // One authorization mean is required (unless in anonymous mode, see below)
  credentials: {
    // either a username and password
    username: 'my-wikidata-username',
    // Optional: generate a dedicated password with tailored rights on /wiki/Special:BotPasswords
    // See the 'Credentials' paragraph below
    password: 'my-wikidata-password',

    // OR OAuth tokens
    oauth: {
      // Obtained at registration
      // https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth/For_Developers#Registration
      consumer_key: 'your-consumer-token',
      consumer_secret: 'your-secret-token',
      // Obtained when the user authorized your service
      // see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth/For_Developers#Authorization
      token: 'a-user-token',
      token_secret: 'a-secret-token'
    }
  },

  // Flag to activate the 'anonymous' mode,
  // which actually isn't anonymous as it signs with your IP
  // Default: false
  anonymous: true,

  // Optional
  // See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary
  // Default: empty
  summary: 'some edit summary common to all the edits',

  // See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Tags
  // Default: on Wikidata [ 'WikibaseJS-edit' ], empty for other Wikibase instances
  tags: [ 'Some general tag' ],

  // Default: `wikidata-edit/${pkg.version} (https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-edit)`
  userAgent: 'my-project-name/v3.2.5 (https://project.website)',

  // See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bots
  // Default: false
  bot: true,

  // See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maxlag_parameter
  // Default: 5
  maxlag: 2
}


const wbEdit = WBEdit(generalConfig)
wbEdit.label.set({ id, language, value })

So if you have a local Wikibase instance installed via wikibase-docker with the default settings, that would look something like:

import WBEdit from 'wikibase-edit'

const generalConfig = {
  instance: 'http://localhost:8181',
  credentials: {
    username: 'WikibaseAdmin',
    password: 'WikibaseDockerAdminPass'
  }
}

const wbEdit = WBEdit(generalConfig)

Per-request config

If you make requests to different Wikibase instances or with different credentials (typically when using different users OAuth keys), you can pass those specific configuration parameter per function call:

import WBEdit from 'wikibase-edit'

const generalConfig = { userAgent }
const wbEdit = WBEdit(generalConfig)
const requestConfig = {
  instance: 'https://project-915215.wikibase.farm',
  credentials: {
    // Either a username and password
    username,
    password,
    // OR
    oauth
  },

  // Default: false
  anonymous: false,

  // See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bots
  // Default: false
  bot: true,

  // See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary
  // Default: empty
  summary: 'some request specific edit summary',

  // An id for the last known revision that can be passed per request so that the server can detect edit collisions
  // That id can be found in any edit response as `lastrevid`
  // See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/API#Request_Format
  baserevid: 1234,

  // See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Tags
  // Default: on Wikidata [ 'WikibaseJS-edit' ], empty for other Wikibase instances
  tags: [ 'Some edit specific tag' ],

  // See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maxlag_parameter
  // Default: 5
  maxlag: 5
}
wbEdit.label.set({ id, language, value }, requestConfig)

Rules:

  • All parameters can either be set in generalConfig or requestConfig

Credentials

Single-user setup

Different options are available to authentify your requests as a single user. (That's typically what you need unless you are building a web service where multiple users would be making edits in their name. If you are building this kind of web service, see Multi-user setup).

Using your username and password
  • That's the least secured way to do it but perfectly fine for prototyping on your local Wikibase instance
  • ⚠️ This method is using the API:Login endpoint, which has been deprecated for a while: for a safer and more long term solution, prefer using an Owner-only OAuth consumer (see below)
  • Your config object would then look something like: 
    const generalConfig = {
  instance: 'http://localhost:8181',
  credentials: {
    username: 'TestWikibaseUser',
    password: 'TestWikibaseUserPassword'
  }
}
Using your username and a bot password:
  • Any user (not just bot accounts despite the name) can generate passwords with restricted rights. Recommanded grants:
    • Edit existing pages
    • Delete pages, revisions, and log entries (Optional, required by wbEdit.entity.delete)
  • ⚠️ This method is also using the API:Login endpoint, which has been deprecated for a while: for a more long term solution, prefer using an Owner-only OAuth consumer (see below)
  • Your config object would then look something like: 
    const generalConfig = {
  instance: 'https://www.somewikibase.instance',
  credentials: {
    username: 'MyUsername',
    password: 'password_name@jkvbxgq9xiu16yb8vgzjp4gtd6m258os'
  }
}
Owner-only OAuth consumer:
  • Can be created without the validation of an administrator on /wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose?wpownerOnly=1, but not all users have the permission to do it (if that's your case, you should probably use the bot password method above).
  • For Wikimedia instances (www.wikidata.org, test.wikidata.org), consumer registration is done on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose?wpownerOnly=1
  • Requires that your Wikibase instance has installed the Extension:OAuth (you can check that on /wiki/Special:Version).
  • Your config object would then look something like: 
    const generalConfig = {
  instance: 'https://www.somewikibase.instance',
  credentials: {
    oauth: {
      'consumer_key': 'c60acb4f8abfa667ea5bafcdb2b673c7',
      'consumer_secret': '1adbc98303a0b5b03311ebeee80d6916cbe1bd1f',
      'token': '8de15abb42b8f9f15444ee4f13bb1f3d',
      'token_secret': '2ba1e72cb947adda5da196d5d2cc57adf12aeaec'
    }
  }
}

Multi-user setup

If you are running a web service that lets people other than yourself make edits on a Wikibase instance, using their usernames and passwords isn't an option: you're only option is to setup an OAuth consumer. That's for example what inventaire.io uses to allow users to make edits on wikidata.org in their name.

  • First, you need to request an OAuth consumer on the desired Wikibase instance:
    • For Wikimedia instances (www.wikidata.org, test.wikidata.org), consumer registration is done on meta: https:// meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose
    • For other Wikibase instance, see /wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose
  • Then you will need to setup an OAuth authentification process to allow users of your web service to authorize your consumer to make edits in their name. That's the tricky part. Some libraries should help you to do that, such as passport-mediawiki-oauth (see Help:Toolforge/My first NodeJS OAuth tool), but some people just prefer rolling their own (ex: inventaire.io implementation). (If you go for this later option, ⚠️ beware of the documentation footnotes: make sure to use the right URLs before loosing hours at a invalid signature error message).
    • As your requests might now be done in the name of different users each time, you will the need to pass the credentials in the request config objects rather than the general config objects: 
      import WBEdit from 'wikibase-edit'

// At initialization
const generalConfig = {
  instance: 'https://www.somewikibase.instance',
  credentials: {
    oauth: {
      'token': '8de15abb42b8f9f15444ee4f13bb1f3d',
      'token_secret': '2ba1e72cb947adda5da196d5d2cc57adf12aeaec'
    }
  }
}

const oauthConsumer = {
  'consumer_key': 'c60acb4f8abfa667ea5bafcdb2b673c7',
  'consumer_secret': '1adbc98303a0b5b03311ebeee80d6916cbe1bd1f',
}

const wbEdit = WBEdit(generalConfig)

// Later, when a user with OAuth tokens already setup (see previous step) makes an edit request
const requestOauth = {
  'consumer_key': oauthConsumer['consumer_key'],
  'consumer_secret': oauthConsumer['consumer_secret'],
  'token': user.oauth['token'],
  'token_secret': user.oauth['token_secret']
}

const requestConfig = {
  credentials: {
    oauth: requestOauth
  }
}

wbEdit.label.set({ id, language, value }, requestConfig)

Cookie browser session

When running wikibase-edit in the browser, it should be possible to use the browser session, but for it to work, the Wikibase instance needs to support CORS (unless your script is doing the request from the Wikibase instance domain itself). If that's your intent, set the config as follow:

const generalConfig = {
  // Note that it will only work for domains on HTTPS
  instance: 'https://www.wikidata.org',
  credentials: {
    browserSession: true
  }
}

Anonymous mode

It is also possible to use wikibase-edit without credentials at all: it currently means that your edits will then be signed with your IP address, but [that might change in the future}(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation).

const generalConfig = {
  // Note that it will only work for domains on HTTPS
  instance: 'https://www.wikidata.org',
  anonymous: true
}

Bot

The bot flag will mark your edits as made by a bot account

Maxlag

See maxlag parameter documentation. If the Wikibase server returns a maxlag error, the request will automatically be re-executed after the amount of seconds recommended by the Wikibase server via the Retry-After header. This automatic retry can be disabled by setting autoRetry to false in the general config or the request config.

As specified in the MediaWiki documentation Interactive tasks (where a user is waiting for the result) may omit the maxlag parameter. To do so, set maxlag = null in the config object.

API

All functions return promises. See also Wikidata API documentation.

Label

set label

wbEdit.label.set({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  language: 'fr',
  value: 'Bac à sable bulgroz'
})

This can also be used to remove a label

wbEdit.label.set({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  language: 'fr',
  value: ''
})

Description

set description

wbEdit.description.set({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  language: 'fr',
  value: 'description du Bac à sable bulgroz'
})

This can also be used to remove a description

wbEdit.description.set({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  language: 'fr',
  value: ''
})

Alias

add aliases

// Add one alias
wbEdit.alias.add({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  language: 'fr',
  value: 'foo'
})
// Add several aliases
wbEdit.alias.add({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  language: 'fr',
  value: [ 'foo', 'bar' ]
})

remove aliases

// Remove one alias
wbEdit.alias.remove({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  language: 'fr',
  value: 'foo'
})
// Remove several aliases
wbEdit.alias.remove({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  language: 'fr',
  value: [ 'foo', 'bar' ]
})

set aliases

// Replace the current list of aliases in French on Q4115189 by 'foo'
wbEdit.alias.set({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  language: 'fr',
  value: 'foo'
})
// Replace the current list of aliases in French on Q4115189 by 'foo' and 'bar'
wbEdit.alias.set({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  language: 'fr',
  value: [ 'foo', 'bar']
})

Claim

create claim

NB: By default, no check is performed to see if the claims values already exist. To perform this kind of check and avoid creating duplicated claims, see the section on reconciliation.

// Simplest case
wbEdit.claim.create({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P2002',
  value: 'bulgroz'
})

// With a datatype requiring a rich value (see below for the different datatypes)
wbEdit.claim.create({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P1476',
  value: { text: 'bulgroz', language: 'it' }
})

// Advanced case with a rank, qualifiers, and references
wbEdit.claim.create({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P2002',
  value: 'bulgroz',
  rank: 'preferred',
  qualifiers: {
    P370: 'foo'
  },
  references: [
    { P143: 'Q8447', P813: '2020-07' },
    { P143: 'https://some.source/url', P813: '2020-07-19' }
  ]
})
monolingualtext
// Monolingualtext property
wbEdit.claim.create({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P1476',
  value: { text: 'bulgroz', language: 'it' }
})
quantity
// Quantity:
// pass a single value for a count without a specific unit
wbEdit.claim.create({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P1106',
  value: 9000
})

// pass an object for a value with a specific unit. Example here to specify minutes (Q7727)
wbEdit.claim.create({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P2097',
  value: { amount: 9000, unit: 'Q7727', lowerBound: 9000, upperBound: 9315 }
})
time
wbEdit.claim.create({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P569',
  value: '1802-02-26'
})
precision

see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Dates#Precision

By default, the precision is inferred from the input

// Inferred year precision (9)
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: '1802' })
// Inferred month precision (10)
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: '1802-02' })
// Inferred day precision (11)
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: '1802-02-26' })

But in some cases it needs to be explicitly specified:

// billion years
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '-13000000000', precision: 0 }})
// million years
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '-1000000', precision: 3 }})
// hundred thousand years
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '-100000', precision: 4 }})
// ten thousand years
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '-50000', precision: 5 }})
// millennium
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '1000', precision: 6 }})
// century
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '1800', precision: 7 }})
// decade
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '1800', precision: 8 }})
// year
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '1802', precision: 9 }})
// month
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '1802-02', precision: 10 }})
// day
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '1802-02-26', precision: 11 }})
calendar

Only 2 calendar are currently supported by Wikibase: Gregorian (Q1985727) and Julian (Q1985786)

// Default calendar: Gregorian
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: '1802-02-26' })

// Use an object value to set a custom calendar. All the following options are valid:
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '0302-05-01', calendar: 'julian' }})
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '0302-05-01', calendar: 'Q1985786' }})
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '0302-05-01', calendar: 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985786' }})
wbEdit.claim.create({ id, property, value: { time: '0302-05-01', calendarmodel: 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985786' }})
globe-coordinate
// with a precision of an arcsecond
wbEdit.claim.create({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P626',
  value: { latitude: 45.758, longitude: 4.84138, precision: 1 / 360 }
})
Special snaktypes
// somevalue
wbEdit.claim.create({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P19',
  value: { snaktype: 'somevalue' }
})

// novalue
wbEdit.claim.create({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P27',
  value: { snaktype: 'novalue' }
})

update claim

A function to change the value of an existing claim without having to remove it and while keeping its references and qualifiers.

find claim to update by value
wbEdit.claim.update({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P2002',
  oldValue: 'initial-value',
  newValue: 'new-value'
})

It will return a rejected promise if several claims with the same value already exist.

It can also be used for rich values such as globecoordinate claims:

const oldValue = { latitude: 18.65, longitude: 226.2, precision: 0.01, globe: "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q111" }
const newValue = { latitude: 18.65, longitude: 226.2, precision: 0.01, globe: "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q313" }
wbEdit.claim.update({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P2002',
  oldValue,
  newValue
})
find claim to update by claim guid

Instead of passing the old value, you can pass the claim guid. That's generally considered a more reliable approach.

const guid = 'Q4115189$E66DBC80-CCC1-4899-90D4-510C9922A04F'
wbEdit.claim.update({
  guid,
  newValue: 'new-value'
})
update rank

It is possible to set the claim rank along setting a new value

wbEdit.claim.update({
  guid,
  rank: 'preferred',
  newValue: 'new-value'
})

It is also possible to change the claim rank alone

wbEdit.claim.update({
  guid,
  rank: 'preferred'
})

move claim

Move a claim from an entity to another and/or from a property to another

This function requires to know about claim guid.

move a single claim
  • change the property of a claim (without changing entity)
const wbEdit.claim.move({
  // This guid identifies a P19 claim on Q4115189
  guid: 'Q4115189$13681798-47F7-4D51-B3B4-BA8C7E044E1F',
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P20'
})
  • move the claim to another entity (without changing the property)
const wbEdit.claim.move({
  // This guid identifies a P19 claim on Q4115189
  guid: 'Q4115189$13681798-47F7-4D51-B3B4-BA8C7E044E1F',
  id: 'Q13406268',
  property: 'P19'
})
  • move the claim to another entity and another property
const wbEdit.claim.move({
  // This guid identifies a P19 claim on Q4115189
  guid: 'Q4115189$13681798-47F7-4D51-B3B4-BA8C7E044E1F',
  id: 'Q13406268',
  property: 'P20'
})
  • move the claim to another entity, another property, and change the value (but, as before, keeping qualifiers and references unchanged)
const wbEdit.claim.move({
  // This guid identifies a P19 claim on Q4115189
  guid: 'Q4115189$13681798-47F7-4D51-B3B4-BA8C7E044E1F',
  id: 'Q13406268',
  property: 'P20',
  newValue: 'foo'
})
move all claims from an entity property
  • change the property of all Q4115189 P19 claims (without changing entity)
const wbEdit.claim.move({
  propertyClaimsId: 'Q4115189#P19'
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P20'
})
  • move Q4115189 P19 claims to another entity (without changing the property)
const wbEdit.claim.move({
  propertyClaimsId: 'Q4115189#P19'
  id: 'Q13406268',
  property: 'P19'
})
  • move Q4115189 P19 claims to another entity and another property
const wbEdit.claim.move({
  propertyClaimsId: 'Q4115189#P19'
  id: 'Q13406268',
  property: 'P20'
})
move claims between properties of different datatypes

If the origin and target properties are of different datatypes, a type conversion will be attempted in the following cases:

origin datatype target datatype comment
external-id string
monolingualtext string ⚠️ the language will be lost
quantity string
string external-id
string quantity ⚠️ will throw an error if the string doesn't look like a number

In other cases, an error will be thrown: if you think that another type conversion should be possible, please open a ticket

remove claim

// remove one claim
const guid = 'Q4115189$E66DBC80-CCC1-4899-90D4-510C9922A04F'
wbEdit.claim.remove({ guid })

// remove several claims on the same entity
const guids = [
  'Q4115189$BB467A9A-9123-4D0C-A87A-B7BF7ACD6477',
  'Q4115189$D2CC0D8C-187C-40CD-8CF3-F6AAFE1496F4'
]
wbEdit.claim.remove({ guid: guids })

See also: How to get a claim guid

Removing claims by their guids is the most relyable way, but it can also convenient to just specify claims to be removed from their value:

await wbEdit.claim.remove({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P123',
  value: 'Q3208426'
})

To customize the way the claims to remove are found, a reconciliation object can be passed (see the section on reconciliation for more details)).

await wbEdit.claim.remove({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P123',
  value: 'Q3208426',
  qualifiers: { P370: 'foo' },
  reconciliation: {
    matchingQualifiers: [ 'P370' ]
  }
})

Qualifier

Those functions require to know about claim guid.

set qualifier

const guid = 'Q4115189$E66DBC80-CCC1-4899-90D4-510C9922A04F'

// entity qualifier
wbEdit.qualifier.set({
  guid,
  property: 'P155',
  value: 'Q4115189'
})

// string qualifier
wbEdit.qualifier.set({
  guid,
  property: 'P1545',
  value: '123'
})

// time qualifier
wbEdit.qualifier.set({
  guid,
  property: 'P580',
  value: '1802-02-26'
})
wbEdit.qualifier.set({
  guid,
  property: 'P580',
  value: { time: '1802-02-26', precision: 11 }
})

// quantity qualifier
wbEdit.qualifier.set({
  guid,
  property: 'P2130',
  value: 13
})

// quantity qualifier with a unit
wbEdit.qualifier.set({
  guid,
  property: 'P2130',
  value: { amount: 123, unit: 'Q4916' }
})

// monolingualtext qualifier
wbEdit.qualifier.set({
  guid,
  property: 'P3132',
  value: { text : "les sanglots long des violons de l'automne", language: 'fr' }
})

// somevalue
wbEdit.qualifier.set({
  guid,
  property: 'P3132',
  value: { snaktype : 'somevalue' }
})

// novalue
wbEdit.qualifier.set({
  guid,
  property: 'P3132',
  value: { snaktype : 'novalue' }
})

See also: How to get a claim guid

update qualifier

wbEdit.qualifier.update({
  guid: 'Q4115189$E66DBC80-CCC1-4899-90D4-510C9922A04F',
  property: 'P155',
  oldValue: 'Q4115189',
  newValue: 'Q4115190'
})

// somevalue
wbEdit.qualifier.update({
  guid,
  property,
  oldValue,
  newValue: { snaktype : 'somevalue' }
})
// novalue
wbEdit.qualifier.update({
  guid,
  property,
  oldValue,
  newValue: { snaktype : 'novalue' }
})

move qualifier

A function to move qualifiers between properties within a claim:

move a unique qualifier
wbEdit.qualifier.move({
  guid: 'Q4115189$E66DBC80-CCC1-4899-90D4-510C9922A04F',
  hash: '239ef1c81ef0c24611d6d7c294d07036e82c4666',
  oldProperty: 'P155',
  newProperty: 'P156'
})
move all qualifiers from a property to another

That's exactly the same as above, just not specifying a hash

wbEdit.qualifier.move({
  guid: 'Q4115189$E66DBC80-CCC1-4899-90D4-510C9922A04F',
  oldProperty: 'P155',
  newProperty: 'P156'
})
move qualifiers between properties of different datatypes

This will behave in the same way as for moving claims between properties of different datatypes

remove qualifier

const guid = 'Q4115189$E66DBC80-CCC1-4899-90D4-510C9922A04F'
// qualifierHash can be either a single hash string or an array of reference hash strings
const qualifierHash = '239ef1c81ef0c24611d6d7c294d07036e82c4666'
wbEdit.reference.remove({
  guid,
  hash: qualifierHash
})

Reference

Those functions require to know about claim guid.

set reference

const guid = 'Q4115189$E66DBC80-CCC1-4899-90D4-510C9922A04F'
wbEdit.reference.set({
  guid,
  snaks: {
    // reference url (P854) is 'https://example.org/rise-and-fall-of-the-holy-sand-box'
    P854: 'https://example.org/rise-and-fall-of-the-holy-sand-box'
    // imported from (P143) the French Wikipedia 'Q8447'
    P143: 'Q8447',
    // snaks can also have special snaktypes
    P370: { snaktype : 'novalue' },
    // or have several values
    P369: [
      'Q123',
      { snaktype : 'somevalue' }
    ]
  }
})

To update an existing reference, pass its current hash value:

const guid = 'Q4115189$E66DBC80-CCC1-4899-90D4-510C9922A04F'
const referenceHash = '239ef1c81ef0c24611d6d7c294d07036e82c4666'
wbEdit.reference.set({
  guid,
  hash: referenceHash,
  snaks: {
    // Will override all existing snaks of that reference with this unique snak
    P854: 'https://example.org/rise-and-fall-of-the-holy-sand-box'
  }
})

remove reference

const guid = 'Q4115189$E66DBC80-CCC1-4899-90D4-510C9922A04F'
// referenceHash can be either a single hash string or an array of reference hash strings
const referenceHash = '239ef1c81ef0c24611d6d7c294d07036e82c4666'
wbEdit.reference.remove({
  guid,
  hash: referenceHash
})

Sitelink

add or update a sitelink

wbEdit.sitelink.set({
  id: 'Q123',
  site: 'frwiki',
  title: 'Septembre',
})

add or update a sitelink with badges

wbEdit.sitelink.set({
  id: 'Q123',
  site: 'frwiki',
  title: 'Septembre',
  badges: [ 'Q17437796', 'Q17437798' ]
})

remove a sitelink

wbEdit.sitelink.set({
  id: 'Q123',
  site: 'frwiki',
  title: null,
})

Badge

Handle badges on an existing sitelink

add badges

Add badges without removing the badges that might already have been set on the sitelink

wbEdit.badge.add({
  id: 'Q123',
  site: 'frwiki',
  badges: [ 'Q17437798', 'Q17437796' ],
})

remove badges

wbEdit.badge.remove({
  id: 'Q123',
  site: 'frwiki',
  badges: [ 'Q17437798', 'Q17437796' ],
})

Entity

edit entity

Make many edits on an entity at once.

incremental mode

By default, every label, description, claim, or sitelink that isn't included in the passed object will stay untouched: only those with a remove flag will be removed. Beware that this isn't true for qualifiers and references, which can be removed by just being omitted (see P1114 example below).

NB: By default, no check is performed to see if the claims values already exist. To perform this kind of check and avoid creating duplicated claims, see the section on reconciliation.

wbEdit.entity.edit({
  // Required
  id: 'Q4115189',
  // All the rest is optional but one of labels, descriptions, aliases, claims, or sitelinks must be set
  labels: {
    // Set a label
    en: 'a new label in English',
    // Remove a label
    fr: null
  },
  descriptions: {
    // Set a description
    en: 'a new description',
    // Remove a description
    fr: null
  },
  aliases: {
    // Pass aliases as an array
    en: [ 'foo', 'bar' ],
    // Or a single value
    de: 'buzz',
    // /!\ for any language specified, the values you pass will overwrite the existing values,
    // which means that the following empty array will remove all existing aliases in French.
    fr: [],
    // To add aliases without removing existing values, you must set 'add=true'
    nl: [
      { value: 'bul', add: true },
      { value: 'groz', add: true },
    ],
    // The same effect of clearing all aliases in a given language can be optained by passing null
    es: null
  },
  claims: {
    // Pass values as an array
    P361: [ 'Q1', 'Q2' ],
    // Or a single value
    P2002: 'bulgroz',
    // Or a rich value object, like a monolingual text
    P2093: { text: 'Author Authorson', language: 'en' },
    // Or even an array of mixed simple values and rich object values
    P1106: [ 42, { amount: 9001, unit: 'Q7727' } ],
    // Add statements with special snaktypes ('novalue' or 'somevalue')
    P626: { snaktype: 'somevalue' },
    // or special rank (Default: 'normal'. Possible values: 'preferred' or 'deprecated')
    P6089: { rank: 'preferred', value: 123 },
    // Add qualifiers and references to value objects
    P369: [
      // Qualifier values can also be passed in those different forms
      {
        value: 'Q5111731',
        qualifiers: {
          P580: '1789-08-04'
          P1416: [ 'Q13406268', 'Q32844021' ],
          P1106: { amount: 9001, unit: 'Q7727', lowerBound: 9000, upperBound: 9315 }
        }
      },
      // References can be passed as a single reference group
      { value: 'Q2622004', references: { P143: 'Q8447' } },
      // or as multiple references groups
      {
        value: 'Q2622009',
        references: [
          { P855: 'https://example.org', P143: 'Q8447' },
          { P855: 'https://example2.org', P143: 'Q8447' }
        ]
      }
    ],
    P1114: [
      // Edit an existing claim
      // /!\ Beware that while editing an existing claim,
      //     anything omitted (rank, qualifiers, or references) will be omitted!!
      { id: 'Q4115189$BC5F4F72-5B49-4991-AB0F-5CC8D4AAB99A', value: 123 },
      // Remove an existing claim
      { id: 'Q4115189$afc56f6c-4e91-c89d-e287-d5691aeb063a', remove: true }
    ]
  },
  sitelinks: {
    // Set a sitelink
    frwiki: 'eviv bulgroz',
    // Remove a sitelink
    eswikisource: null
    // Set a sitelink with badges
    dewiki: {
      title: 'eviv bulgroz',
      badges: [ 'Q17437796', 'Q17437798' ]
    },
  },

  // For convenience, the summary and baserevid can also be passed from this edit object
  summary: 'doing a bunch of edits',
  baserevid: 1234,
})
reset mode

If the entity you are editing requires a big cleanup, instead of adding a remove flag to all the elements that needs to be removed, you can set the clear flag to true, which will delete all the entity data before adding the specified data:

// Remove ALL the labels, descriptions, aliases, claims, and sitelinks, and set the English label to 'Sandbox'
wbEdit.entity.edit({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  clear: true,
  labels: {
    en: 'Sandbox'
  }
})

create entity

create item

Create an item from scratch. The item data follow the same rules as wbEdit.entity.edit, simply without the id

const { entity } = await wbEdit.entity.create({
  type: 'item',
  labels,
  descriptions,
  aliases,
  claims,
  sitelinks
})
console.log('created item id', entity.id)
create property

Creating a property is just like creating an item, but with a type=property and a datatype

const { entity } = await wbEdit.entity.create({
  type: 'property',
  datatype: 'string',
  labels,
  descriptions,
  aliases,
  claims
})
console.log('created property id', entity.id)

merge entity

merge item
// Merge Q1 into Q2, turning Q1 into a redirection
wbEdit.entity.merge({ from: 'Q1', to: 'Q2' })
merge property

Wikibase doesn't allow to merge properties

delete entity

delete item
wbEdit.entity.delete({ id: 'Q1' })
delete property
wbEdit.entity.delete({ id: 'P1' })

get auth data

All the functions above handle authentification for you, but you can also access the auth data, that is session cookies and the currently valid csrf token, using the getAuthData function.

import WBEdit from 'wikibase-edit'
const wbEdit = WBEdit({ instance, credentials })
const { cookie, token } = await wbEdit.getAuthData()

It can also be used as a way to validate credentials:

import WBEdit from 'wikibase-edit'
const wbEdit = WBEdit({ instance, credentials })
wbEdit.getAuthData()
.then(onValidCredentials)
.catch(onInvalidCredentials)

Reconciliation

⚠️ Experimental. You are invited to use with caution: test on a small sample and see if it behaves as expected. Please report any issue, counter-intuitive behavior, or missing capability.

Several functions accept a reconciliation object, allowing to customize how the input is matched to existing claims, and what should be done once a match is established:

matching

claim matching

By default, a claim is considered to be matching if its value (a.k.a. mainsnak) is matching.

To also require to take qualifiers in consideration, when determining if a claim is matching, you can specify an array of matchingQualifiers properties. Example:

{
  reconciliation: {
    matchingQualifiers: [ 'P580', 'P582' ]
    // The line above is equivalent to
    matchingQualifiers: [ 'P580:all', 'P582:all' ]
    // that is that all qualifiers in the input should match qualifiers
    // on the existing claim for the claim to be considered a match.
    // To match on any qualifier for each of those properties instead, you could add the suffix `any`
    matchingQualifiers: [ 'P580:any', 'P582:any' ]
  }
}

reference matching

Once a claim is determined as matching (be it only from its mainsnak value or also taking its qualifiers into account), references can also be matched by specifying a matchingReferences array, but this is specific to references and won't influence the claim matching. It is just a way, once a matching claim is found, to avoid creating duplicated references.

{
  reconciliation: {
    matchingReferences: [ 'P854', 'P813' ]
    // The line above is equivalent to
    matchingQualifiers: [ 'P854:all', 'P813:all' ]
    // that is that all reference snaks in the input should match reference snaks
    // on an existing reference for the reference to be considered a match.
    // To match on any reference snak for each of those properties instead, you could add the suffix `any`
    matchingQualifiers: [ 'P854:any', 'P813:any' ]
  }
}

reconciliation modes

Once a claim is determined as matching, several modes can be used to determine what should be done with that matching claim. This also applies to matching references.

skip-on-any-value mode

  • Checks if there is already a statement for that property, whatever the value
  • If any statement is found, no change is performed on that statement, no new statement is added either
wbEdit.entity.edit({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  reconciliation: {
    mode: 'skip-on-any-value'
  },
  claims: {
    // If Q4115189 already has a P361 claim, this won't add anything
    P361: [
      'Q1',
    ]
  },
})

If the initial state was

{ id: 'Q4115189', claims: { P361: [ 'Q1' ] }

after this edit it will still be

{ id: 'Q4115189', claims: { P361: [ 'Q1' ] }

skip-on-value-match mode

  • Checks if there is a statement with the specified value
  • If a matching statement is found, no change is performed on that statement, no new statement is added either
wbEdit.entity.edit({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  reconciliation: {
    mode: 'skip-on-value-match'
  },
  claims: {
    // Those new values will only be added if there is no P361 statement with those values
    P361: [
      'Q1',
      'Q2'
    ]
  },
})

If the initial state was

{ id: 'Q4115189', claims: { P361: [ 'Q1' ] }

after this edit it will still be

{ id: 'Q4115189', claims: { P361: [ 'Q1' ] }

merge mode

  • Checks if there is a statement with the specified value
  • If a matching statement is found, no change is performed on that statement, missing statements will be added
wbEdit.entity.edit({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  claims: {
    P361: [ 'Q1', 'Q2' ]
  },
  reconciliation: {
    mode: 'merge'
  }
})

If the initial state was

{ id: 'Q4115189', claims: { P361: [ 'Q1' ] }

after this edit it will be

{ id: 'Q4115189', claims: { P361: [ 'Q1', 'Q2' ] }

Tips

How to get a claim guid

A globally unique identifier, or guid for short, is the unique identifier of a claim. As such, it is used by several functions working with existing claims. While the Wikibase API sometimes just refers to those as ids, wikibase-edit always refer to those as guids to avoid the confusion with entities ids.

But "how do I get those guids?" you may ask. There are different pathways:

Maybe you got that id in a response from a previous edit:

const res = await wbEdit.claim.create({
  id: 'Q4115189',
  property: 'P2002',
  value: 'bulgroz'
})

// Here is our new claim guid, ready to be used in our next edit!
const guid = res.claim.id

const res2 = await wbEdit.claim.remove({ guid }, { summary: 'oops' })
// res2.claim.id === guid

Maybe you fetched an entity's data:

// Example where we try to get the guid of Q1's first P31 claim
import { WBK } from 'wikibase-sdk'
const wbk = WBK({ instance: 'https://www.wikidata.org', sparqlEndpoint: 'https://query.wikidata.org/sparql' })
const url = wbk.getEntities({ ids: [ 'Q1' ] })
const { entities } = await customFetch(url).then(res => res.json())

const firstP31Claim = entities.Q1.claims.P31[0]
// Here is our guid!
const guid = firstP31Claim.id

Maybe you got guids from a SPARQL query:

const sparql = 'SELECT ?statement { ?item p:P4033 ?statement . } LIMIT 5'
const url = wbk.sparqlQuery(sparql)
const results = await customFetch(url)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(wbk.simplify.sparqlResults)

// Here are our statement guids!
const guids = results.map(result => result.statement)