User talk:Julius Schwarz

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EU party seats lower upper houses

Hi, I have been cleaning up Wikipedia:Database reports/Transclusions of non-existent templates and I was wondering if you had any plans to create Template:EU party seats lower upper houses, or if not, if you could modify your module test so it didn't transclude a non-existing template. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 23:47, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, yes sure. Actually, I moved the module and relevant pages, so all of it can be deleted :) Julius Schwarz (talk) 08:21, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Module:EUPP seats

Hello there. I saw your module, and it in use, and I was pretty pleased at how it has turned out. May I ask, have you thought about expanding it out from just European politics? It could work wonders for the likes of South Korea and Japan :) ValenciaThunderbolt (talk) 19:13, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the nice words. What exactly did you have in mind? As you probably saw, there are two aspects for the module -- the first being for European political parties, and the other for national parties (virtually, any national political party, but especially parties that are members of European parties). There are surely ways to expand the module, but my own priority is mostly deploying it and translating it. Expanding it beyond the EU could also be done, but the issue is the tie between parties and their relevant lower/upper houses, which for now we solve by using a table listing European parties' member parties. Julius Schwarz (talk) 19:58, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, you've answered my question with a national party module. Another thing is how to adapt the module for unicameral parliaments. Is there a way to use the template for unicameral seats, like South Korea's DPK and PPP? ValenciaThunderbolt (talk) 20:30, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, well the module already works with unicameral parliaments, insofar as the only existing house is considered the lower house. As you can see in the mapping table, the upper house column is left blank for unicameral member states. But, once again, this always hinges on having an up-to-date mapping of countries to their lower and upper houses. We do this with a table (via the mapping of national member parties to their European party), but it could be done with a table just linking a country to its legislative houses. As far as I can see at the moment, it's not straightforward with Wikidata, as sometimes a country's legislature will be the houses themselves (one or two), and sometimes it will be an item for the combined houses which will then refer to the separate houses. For instance, Belgium lists, as its legislative body, the Belgian Federal Parliament, which in turns links to the lower and upper houses. Julius Schwarz (talk) 07:24, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]