Help/Authors

Authors of literary texts have a data page with relevant data and eventually a short description. The title of the data page is the name of the author.

The data page contains:

1. An infobox with essential data and links to the author's selected works;
2. A short description or biography (optional);
3. Links to readings refering to the author, or to images, audio and video connected to or about the author;
4. The category tag;
5. An interlanguage link tag (recommended).

The data page layout is hence as follows:

	Wiki markup or text in the page	Description
1.	{{Infobox-fr {{Infobox-hu calls the infobox in Hungarian. | parameters }}	The Infobox template creates a floating box, which can contain an image and basic data.
2.	Free text (optional)	You can add a short text about the author. General formatting rules apply.
3.	{{Référence|cet auteur}} See the Hungarian reference call below.	Automatic references, created with the help of correct category and semantic annotation use, are called with this tag.
4.	[[Category:Auteur(e)s]] Use Szerzők instead of Auteur(e)s for author data pages in Hungarian.	Categorizes the page as being about an author.
5.	{{interlanguagelink:fr|Maurice Carême}} Use hu instead of fr for author data pages in Hungarian.	Declares the language code of the content for interlanguage links that connect pages with similar content for different languages.

Infobox

This is the first element of an author's data page. It is created with an infobox template.

For example, the first lines of the page dedicated to Maurice Carême are as follows:

{{Infobox-fr
|title = [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Car%C3%AAme Maurice Carême]
|image = CAREME_5_-_photo_Burny_bw.jpg
|birth = 12 mai 1899, Janna
|death = 13 janvier 1978 (à 78 ans), Anderlecht
|birthname = Maurice Carême
|nationality = belge
|occupation = poète, traducteur, écrivain
|works = 63 illustrations pour un jeu de l'oie (1925)<br>Le Royaume des fleurs (1934)<br>Mère (1935)<br>Petite Flore (1937)<br>La Lanterne magique (1947)<br>Semeur de rêves (1953)<br>La Grange bleue (1961)<br>[[Author of::Médua]] (1976)
}}

Which gives:

Maurice Carême

Nom de naissance	Maurice Carême
Naissance	12 mai 1899, Janna
Décès	13 janvier 1978 (à 78 ans), Anderlecht
Nationalité	belge
Activité	poète, traducteur, écrivain
Œuvres principales	63 illustrations pour un jeu de l'oie (1925) Le Royaume des fleurs (1934) Mère (1935) Petite Flore (1937) La Lanterne magique (1947) Semeur de rêves (1953) La Grange bleue (1961) Médua (1976)

You should start the infobox with the {{Infobox-fr line if you want to have an infobox in French, and with the {{Infobox-hu line if you want to have an infobox in Hungarian. After the first line, every line begins with a pipe (|) followed by a parameter name and the value of the parameter (|parameter = value). After the parameters, don't forget to close the infobox with the }} tag.

Parameter names are always in English, but parameter values can be added in any language. Actually, if you use the French Infobox ({{Infobox-fr), you will probably want values to be in French.

Parameters

The following parameters can be added to an infobox. All parameters are optional. You can use text formatting markup and links.

Parameter name	Parameter name rendered in French	Parameter name rendered in Hungarian	Notes
title	no rendered text	no rendered text	If omitted, the page title is used. The title is in top middle of the infobox in bold characters.
image	no rendered text	no rendered text	The name of an image without the File: or Fichier: part.
birthname	Nom de naissance	Születési név	Used if it is relevant.
birth	Naissance	Született	Date and place of birth.
death	Décès	Elhunyt	Date and place of death.
nationality	Nationalité	Állampolgárság
education	Formation	Iskolái
occupation	Activité	Foglalkozása
works	Œuvres principales	Főbb művei	List of selected works, with links to text data pages. You should use the "Author of" property in the link (as above), see Semantic links. If a given work has several authors, use the "Coauthor of" property silently (see below).

Short description

After the infobox, you can add a short text about the author, e.g. his/her biography.

Links to readings, images, audio and video

Automatic reference lists are called with the help of {{Référence}} or {{Referencia}} tag. In the case of authors, you need to add a parameter:

• if the author data page is in French, add the parameter "cet auteur", like this: {{Référence|cet auteur}}.
• if the author data page is in Hungarian, add the parameter "szerző", like this: {{Referencia|szerző}}.

If there are links with "Refers to" (or "Fait référence à") property pointing to the page, they are automatically listed.

• If you call the {{Référence|cet auteur}} tag, links are listed after this text: "Les lectures suivantes font référence à cet auteur :".
• If you call the {{Referencia|szerző}} tag, links are listed after this text: "Az alábbi olvasatok utalnak erre a szerzőre:".

Note that if you don't use the "cet auteur" or "szerző" parameter, the above texts will refer to texts.

If there are links with "Linked to" (or "En lien avec") property pointing to the page, they are automatically listed.

• If you call the {{Référence|cet auteur}} tag, links are listed after this text: "Images, vidéos ou présentations en lien avec cet auteur :".
• If you call the {{Referencia|szerző}} tag, links are listed after this text: "A szerző az alábbi képekhez, videókhoz, prezentációkhoz köthető:".

Note that if you don't use the "cet auteur" or "szerző" parameter, the above texts will refer to texts.

You only have to use the reference tag once; the two types of links are called with the same tag.

Category tag

• [[Category:Auteur(e)s]] for author data pages in French.
• [[Category:Szerzők]] for author data pages in Hungarian.

Interlanguage link tag

The same author can have several data pages in different languages. You can link these pages with interlanguage links. The interlanguage link tag declares the language code of the content for interlanguage links that connect pages with similar content for different languages.

In the {{interlanguagelink:fr|Maurice Carême}} tag, the first argument specifies the language code (fr, hu) of the content, while the second argument contains an arbitrary reference (in this case, Maurice Carême) that describes content of similar nature (content that should be connected to each other) for different languages.

Even if a given author data page does not exist yet in another language, it is recommended to add this tag. Thus, when a data page is created for the same author but in a different language, the two data pages will be connected.

Note that you cannot create two pages with the same title. If a page entitled "Maurice Carême" already exists and you would like to start a new data page for Maurice Carême in Hungarian, its title should be different, e.g. "Maurice Carême (hu)" or "Maurice Carême (költő)".

Coauthored works

In the case of coauthored works, you should use the property "Coauthor of" in links pointing to a text data page instead of the property "Author of".

Contrary to other properties used in the Rich Annotator System, the property "Coauthor of" is of datatype "Text" (not "Page"). Hence you can add more information to the property value, e.g. "illustrated by..." or "with..."; but, on the corollary, you should manually add a link to the text data page.

For example, L'Usage du monde is coauthored by Nicolas Bouvier and Thierry Vernet. Nicolas Bouvier's data page therefore contains a simple (unannotated) link to L'Usage du monde in the infobox with the information "(illustré par Thierry Vernet)". At the bottom of the page, a silent annotation is added to store the information semantically: {{#set: Coauteur de=[[L'Usage du monde]] (illustré par [[Thierry Vernet]])}}. In-text annotations are not recommended for this property.

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