The Wikipedia extension¶

The wikipedia extension enriches your ancestry and site with content from Wikipedia.

Enable this extension in your project’s configuration file as follows:

YAML

extensions:
  wikipedia: {}

JSON

{
  "extensions": {
    "wikipedia": {}
  }
}

Configuration¶

This extension is configurable:

YAML

extensions:
  wikipedia:
    configuration:
      populate_images: false

JSON

{
  "extensions": {
    "wikipedia": {
      "configuration" : {
        "populate_images": false
      }
    }
  }
}

^optional

A boolean indicating whether to download images from the Wikipedia links in the ancestry. Defaults to true.

For the extension to know where to look for information, simply add a single link to a human-readable Wikipedia page to that entity’s links.

The extension will attempt the following for any entity that has a Wikipedia link:

for places, add coordinates if a place has none already
for any entity, add additional links to the translations of the given Wikipedia page
for any entity that has files, add the primary image of the linked Wikipedia page

wikipedia_contributors_copyright_notice (betty.wikipedia.copyright_notice.WikipediaContributors): The copyright notice plugin instance for Wikipedia contributors.