Hi there,
We've been using the External Data extension for years now and managed to make
it work really well for us to fetch data from our private wikis onto more
public wiki sites.
The new version 3.2 is causing some issues for us. Here is the gist:
Simple values (Semantic property of type text) come through fine with the new
method:
> {{#external_value:PersonTypeRaw
> > quote_type
> > |source=https://commons-new.tsadra.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAsk&q={{urlencode:[[Dorje,
> > G.]]}}&po=PersonTypeRaw&p%5Bformat%5D=csv
> > |format=csv
> }}
Result:
Authors of English Works
More complex values (Semantic property of type text) however do not (they used
to just fine), the function doesn't seem to fire at all. For the value:
> * "The Guhyagarbhatantra and its XIVth Century Commentary Phyogs-bcu
> mun-sel." PhD Thesis, SOAS, University of London (3 vols), 1987. See [1]*
> Dudjom Rinpoche's ''The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals
> and History''. Wisdom Publications, Boston. 1st edition (2 vols), 1991; 2nd
> edition (1 vol), 2002; ISBN 0861711998. See Wisdom Books* ''Tibetan Medical
> Paintings''. Serindia Publications, London (2 Vols); ISBN 0-906026-26-1.
> 1992. See Serindia* ''Tibet Handbook''. Footprint Handbooks, Bath. 1st
> edition, 1996; 2nd edition 1999; 3rd edition 2004; ISBN 1900949334 See
> Footprintbooks* ''Bhutan Handbook''. Footprint Handbooks, Bath. 1st edition,
> 2004. See Footprintbooks* ''Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings'',
> Eskenazi & Fogg, London. 2001. See Whiteberyl* ''Tibetan Elemental Divination
> Paintings: Illuminated Manuscript from the White Beryl of Sangs-Rgyas
> Rgya-Mtsho''. Holberton, Paul Publishing, 2008. ISBN 9780953994106 ISBN
> 0953994104* ''An Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary'', (Nationalities
> Publishing House/ SOAS, Beijing. Vol. 1, 2001). Enquiries: [email protected]*
> "A Rare Series of Tibetan Banners." In ''Pearls of the Orient'', Serindia,
> 2003. See Serindia* ''The Tibetan Book of the Dead'': First Complete English
> Translation, Penguin Classics, 2005.* ''Jokhang: Tibet's Most Sacred Buddhist
> Temple'', Thames & Hudson, 2010* ''The Guhyagarbha Tantra: Dispelling the
> Darkness of the Ten Directions''. (Snowlion)* ''An Encyclopaedic
> Tibetan-English Dictionary''. (Nationalities Publishing House/ SOAS, Beijing.
> Vols. 2-3.
Using the function:
> {{#external_value:publications
> > quote_type
> > |source=https://commons-new.tsadra.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAsk&q={{urlencode:[[Dorje,
> > G.]]}}&po=publications&p%5Bformat%5D=csv
> > |format=csv
> }}
We get an error as a result:
Error: no local variable "publications" has been set.
Multi-paragraph text values also don't come through properly, only the first
paragraph is displayed. For the value:
> Gyurme Dorje (1950 – 5 February 2020) was a Scottish Tibetologist and writer.
> He was born in Edinburgh, where he studied classics (Latin and Greek) at
> George Watson's College and developed an early interest in Buddhist
> philosophy. He held a PhD in Tibetan Literature (SOAS) and an MA in Sanskrit
> with Oriental Studies (Edinburgh). In the 1970s he spent a decade living in
> Tibetan communities in India and Nepal where he received extensive teachings
> from Kangyur Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, and Dilgo Khyentse
> Rinpoche. In 1971 Dudjom Rinpoche encouraged him to begin translating his
> recently completed ''History of the Nyingma Schoo''l
> (རྙིང་མའི་སྟན་པའི་ཆོས་འབྱུང་) and in 1980 his ''Fundamentals of the Nyingma
> School'' (བསྟན་པའི་རྣམ་གཞག) - together this was an undertaking that was to
> take twenty years, only reaching completion in 1991. In the 1980s Gyurme
> returned to the UK and in 1987 completed his 3 volume doctoral dissertation
> on the ''Guhyagarbhatantra'' and Longchenpa's commentary on this text at the
> School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.
> From 1991 to 1996 Gyurme held research fellowships at London University,
> where he worked with Alak Zenkar Rinpoche on translating (with corrections)
> the content of the Great Sanskrit Tibetan Chinese Dictionary to create the
> three volume ''Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary''. From 2007 until
> his death he worked on many translation projects, primarily as a Tsadra
> Foundation grantee. He has written, edited, translated and contributed to
> numerous important books on Tibetan religion and culture including ''The
> Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History'' (2 vols.)
> (Wisdom, 1991), ''Tibetan Medical Paintings'' ( 2 vols.) (Serindia, 1992),
> ''The Tibet Handbook'' (Footprint, 1996), the first complete translation of
> the ''Tibetan Book of the Dead'', and ''A Handbook of Tibetan Culture''
> (Shambhala, 1994). ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyurme_Dorje Source
> Accessed Jul 14, 2020])
Using:
> {{#external_value:bio
> > quote_type
> > |source=https://commons-new.tsadra.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAsk&q={{urlencode:[[Dorje,
> > G.]]}}&po=bio&p%5Bformat%5D=csv
> > |format=csv
> }}
We get:
Gyurme Dorje (1950 – 5 February 2020) was a Scottish Tibetologist and writer.
He was born in Edinburgh, where he studied classics (Latin and Greek) at George
Watson's College and developed an early interest in Buddhist philosophy. He
held a PhD in Tibetan Literature (SOAS) and an MA in Sanskrit with Oriental
Studies (Edinburgh). In the 1970s he spent a decade living in Tibetan
communities in India and Nepal where he received extensive teachings from
Kangyur Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, and Dilgo Khyentse
Rinpoche. In 1971 Dudjom Rinpoche encouraged him to begin translating his
recently completed History of the Nyingma School (རྙིང་མའི་སྟན་པའི་ཆོས་འབྱུང་)
and in 1980 his Fundamentals of the Nyingma School (བསྟན་པའི་རྣམ་གཞག) -
together this was an undertaking that was to take twenty years, only reaching
completion in 1991. In the 1980s Gyurme returned to the UK and in 1987
completed his 3 volume doctoral dissertation on the Guhyagarbhatantra and
Longchenpa's commentary on this text at the School of Oriental and African
Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.
For the full list of values you can fetch from our commons site, go here.
We have even tried using curl to fetch the data and it all comes through fine:
• curl
'https://commons.tsadra.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAsk&q=%5B%5BDorje%2C+G.%5D%5D&po=PersonTypeRaw&p%5Bformat%5D=csv'
• curl
'https://commons.tsadra.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAsk&q=%5B%5BDorje%2C+G.%5D%5D&po=Bio&p%5Bformat%5D=csv'
• curl
'https://commons.tsadra.org/index.php?title=Special%3AAsk&q=%5B%5BDorje%2C+G.%5D%5D&po=Publications&p%5Bformat%5D=csv'
Could it be an issue with the extension's code?
The wiki from which we are fetching data is:
Product
Version
MediaWiki
1.35.6
PHP
7.4.30 (apache2handler)
MariaDB
10.9.3-MariaDB-1:10.9.3+maria~ubu2204
ICU
67.1
Lua
5.1.5
Elasticsearch
6.8.23
with
Semantic MediaWiki
3.2.3
The wiki onto which we are bringing the data is:
Product
Version
MediaWiki
1.35.6
PHP
7.4.30 (apache2handler)
MariaDB
10.10.2-MariaDB-1:10.10.2+maria~ubu2204
ICU
67.1
Lua
5.1.5
Elasticsearch
6.8.23
with
Semantic MediaWiki
3.2.3
Thanks for any suggestions. Would really appreciate the help.
All the best,
Jeremi Plazas
Assistant Director of Research
[email protected]
Tsadra Foundation
Tsadra.org
Translation & Transmission Conferences
Buddha-Nature
DharmaCloud
Rinchen Terdzö
Damngak Dzö
Advancing the combined study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism
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