Module talk:YouTubeSubscribers

YouTube Template‑class

This module is within the scope of WikiProject YouTube, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of YouTube and related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.YouTubeWikipedia:WikiProject YouTubeTemplate:WikiProject YouTubeYouTube

Template This module does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

WikiProject YouTube To-do:

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : see list.
Assess : Apply the assessment scale on Unknown-importance YouTube articles + Unassessed YouTube articles
Cleanup : See cleanup listing
Maintain : This WikiProject
Stubs : Category:Stub-Class YouTube articles
Other :
- Substitute {{WikiProject YouTube/Invite Members}} on user talk pages
- Check out edit requests on Talk:List of YouTubers

Design

@Sdkb: Moving the discussion here. So a few open questions in the design of this thing:

Do we want to generate a reference in the module? If so to what. BorkedBot currently is not setting references. Maybe that should change.
Do we want to generate the point in time of the data within the module? If so in what format and should it be a separate call to the module or should it return e.g. "1 million as of Jan 5, 2020"
Do we want to format the number in some way. Looking at Wikipedia articles it seems they are formatted in the style of "1 million" or "250 thousand". Should I copy that formatting (or are there already templates to do that and so the logic doesn't need to be in the module).
How should we handle exceptional situations? E.g. sub counts with more than one point in time attached, more than one youtube account associated with the item, negative sub counts, etc. Currently it just returns "?" on failure.

Looking forward to getting this in production. Broken Segue 16:07, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ok so I modified the module to return dates represented as {{Format date|YYYY|mm|dd}}. The number is represented as {{val|count}}. But that's easy to change. I'm currently just failing with error on error conditions. Tell me if this is good enough for you to proceed. I created a test cases page at Module talk:YouTubeSubscribers/testcases. Broken Segue 02:42, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]