Module:Person date

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This module is intended to aid in calculating/formatting birth dates and death dates in {{Infobox person}} and other People and person infobox templates.

This module generates errors when it encounters invalid input. Error descriptions and how to fix them are listed at Category:Pages using age template with invalid date.

Usage

• {{#invoke:person date|birth}}
• {{#invoke:person date|death}}

In infoboxes

{{Infobox
...
| label# = Born
| data#  = {{#invoke:person date|birth}}

| label# = Died
| data#  = {{#invoke:person date|death}}
...
}}

Or

{{Infobox
...
| label#    = Born
| data#     = {{br separated entries
   |1={{#if:{{{birth_name|}}}|<div style="display:inline" class="nickname">{{{birth_name|}}}</div>}}
   |2={{#invoke:person date|birth}}
   |3={{#if:{{{birth_place|}}}|<div class="birthplace">{{{birth_place|}}}</div>}}
}}

| label#    = Died
| data#     = {{br separated entries
  |1={{#invoke:person date|death}}
  |2={{#if:{{{death_place|}}}|<div class="deathplace">{{{death_place|}}}</div>}}
}}
...
}}

Areas for improvement

1. Currently the module does not handle anything that is not a simple date. So anything with a reference tag is not evaluated by the code.
2. If |birth_date={{bda|1993|11|7}} (for example) then |death_date= will not be parsed. It will just be returned as the original string. Thus no age is calculated.

Tracking categories

• Category:Pages where birth or death is being automatically determined (77,238)
• Category:Pages using age template with invalid date (0)
• Category:Pages with invalid birth or death dates (4,548)

The above documentation is transcluded from Module:Person date/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this module's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit | run) pages.
Subpages of this module.

local p = {}

function is_valid_month (str)
	local months = {'Jan','January','Feb','February','Mar','March','Apr','April','May','Jun','June','Jul','July','Aug','August','Sep','September','Oct','October','Nov','November','Dec','December'}
    for index, value in ipairs(months) do
        if value == str then
            return true
        end
    end
    return false
end
function is_valid_date(str)
	local month = mw.ustring.match (str, '^%d+%s*(%a+)%s*%d%d%d%d') or mw.ustring.match(str, '^(%a+)%s+%d+,%s*%d%d%d%d') or mw.ustring.match(str, '^(%a+)%s+%d%d%d%d') 
	
	return is_valid_month(month) and (mw.ustring.match(str,'^%d+%s*'..months..'%s*%d%d%d%d') or mw.ustring.match(str,'^'..months..'%s*%d+,%s*%d%d%d%d') or mw.ustring.match(str,'^'..months..'%s*%d%d%d%d'))
end

function is_year_only(str)
	return mw.ustring.match(str, '^%s*%d%d%d%d%s*')
end

function parse_birth(frame, args)
	local birth_date = args[1] or ''
	local death_date = args[2] or ''
	local original = birth_date
	
	-- Sanatize leading whitespace (this caused an issue before it was implemented)
	birth_date = mw.ustring.gsub(birth_date,'^%s*','')
	death_date = mw.ustring.gsub(death_date,'^%s*','')
	
	if is_valid_date(birth_date) then
		local location = mw.ustring.find(birth_date, '%d%d%d%d')
		local date = mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, 1,location+3)
		local extra = mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, location+4)
		if death_date == '' then
			return frame:expandTemplate{ title = 'Birth date and age text', args = {date}} .. extra
		else
			return frame:expandTemplate{ title = 'Birth date text', args = {date}} .. extra
		end
	end
	if is_year_only(birth_date) then
		if death_date == '' then
			return frame:expandTemplate{ title = 'bya', args = {mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, 1, 5)}} .. mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, 5)
		else
			return frame:expandTemplate{ title = 'birth year', args = {mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, 1, 5)}} .. mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, 5)
		end
	end
	
	return original
end

function parse_death(frame, args)
	local birth_date = args[1] or ''
	local death_date = args[2] or ''
	local original = death_date
	
	-- Sanatize leading whitespace (this caused an issue before it was implemented)
	birth_date = mw.ustring.gsub(birth_date,'^%s*','')
	death_date = mw.ustring.gsub(death_date,'^%s*','')
	
	-- if is_valid_date(birth_date) then
	-- 	local location = mw.ustring.find(birth_date, '%d%d%d%d')
	-- 	local date = mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, 1,location+3)
	-- 	local extra = mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, location+4)
	-- 	if death_date == '' then
	-- 		return frame:expandTemplate{ title = 'Birth date and age text', args = {date}} .. extra
	-- 	else
	-- 		return frame:expandTemplate{ title = 'Birth date text', args = {date}} .. extra
	-- 	end
	-- end
	-- if is_year_only(birth_date) then
	-- 	if death_date == '' then
	-- 		return frame:expandTemplate{ title = 'bya', args = {mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, 1, 5)}} .. mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, 5)
	-- 	else
	-- 		return frame:expandTemplate{ title = 'birth year', args = {mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, 1, 5)}} .. mw.ustring.sub(birth_date, 5)
	-- 	end
	-- end
	
	return original
end

function p.birth(frame)
	return parse_birth(frame, frame.args[1] and frame.args or frame:getParent().args)
end

function p.death(frame)
	return parse_death(frame, frame.args[1] and frame.args or frame:getParent().args)
end

return p