Module:RDIndex

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This module is responsible for making the Lua-based archive pages for the Refdesk at WP:Reference desk/Archives/Lua.

Usage

For all the recent archives like WP:Reference desk/Archives/Lua/Science/January 2013, it extracts the month, year, and desk from the title string if they are not otherwise specified. (The exact order doesn't matter; it does a text search) Therefore, these pages contain simply:

{{#invoke:RDIndex|month}}

However, conventional parameter-based settings are available to override the defaults thus obtained - however, these haven't been tested much and may need debugging.

Parameters

• cat = a specific category (as provided by the Template:Rdcat pseudo-template) can be specified here, in which case only the pages from that category will be indexed. Or it can be set to "no" and this column is omitted.
• input = a text for the "main" function (not "month") to process
• desk = (Science, Humanities, etc.)
• label = (an arbitrary replacement for the desk to be shown in the table, if provided)
• date = (the date to be shown, if not obtained from the page name)
• arcpage = (the page where the original discussion is archived)

The Rdcat pseudo-template

Template:Rdcat doesn't do anything, because the text is read in by the module without template substitution - this module simply looks for {{Rdcat|xxx|xxx}} and processes it on its own. The first parameter sets a category for display in the table; the second is reserved for a subcategory system within a system.

Categories are things like "biology", "chemistry", "astronomy", "physics", "engineering" under Science. The subcategories would be more specific topics, perhaps evolution, DNA, protein, taxonomy, virology, etc. under Biology. To make the categories and subcategories work it is well-nigh essential to recruit people interested in sorting the questions, and for them to do so pretty consistently.

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

local p={} -- ultimate planned purpose is to create table rows of Refdesk questions, type, date, answerer including wikilinks in collaboration with a big template
function p.main(frame)
   local args=frame.args
   local parent=frame:getParent()
   local pargs=parent.args
   local input=pargs.input or args.input or "ERROR"
   local label=pargs.label or args.label or "unlabelled"
   local date=pargs.date or args.date or "undated"
   local arcpage=pargs.arcpage or args.arcpage or nil
   local output="no section headings found"

    local cursor, next_cursor, questioner, users, user_table, last_user;
    local input_length = mw.ustring.len( input );
    
    local breakpoints = {};
    local cut, item
    for cut, item in mw.ustring.gmatch( input, "\n()==+(.-)==+%s+" ) do                
        table.insert( breakpoints, cut );        
        table.insert( breakpoints, item );        
    end     
    
    index = 1;
    output = '';
    repeat
        cursor = tonumber( breakpoints[index] );
        title = breakpoints[index + 1];
             
        if cursor == nil then 
            break;
        end
        next_cursor = tonumber( breakpoints[index+2] ) or input_length;
      
        text = mw.ustring.sub(input,cursor,next_cursor-1)
        tt = mw.ustring.match(title,"[=%s]+(.-)[=%s]+$")
        if tt then 
            title=tt 
        else
            tt = mw.ustring.match(title,"UNIQ.-QINU.(.+)")
            if tt then 
                title=tt 
            end
        end
        text = mw.ustring.gsub(text, "%[%[Special:Contributions/", "[[User:")
        questioner = mw.ustring.gsub(mw.ustring.match(text,"%[%[User:(.-)[|%]]") or "","_"," ")
        user_table = {}
        for tt in mw.ustring.gmatch(text,"%[%[User:(.-)[|%]]" ) do
            tt = mw.ustring.gsub(tt,"_"," ")
            table.insert( user_table, tt );
        end
        table.sort( user_table );
        
        last_user = ''
        users = '';
        for index, tt in pairs( user_table ) do
            if tt ~= last_user and tt ~= questioner then
                users = table.concat( {users, "[[User:", tt, "|", tt, "]]", " "} );
            end
            last_user = tt;
        end        
        users = "[[User:" .. questioner .. "|" .. questioner .. "]]" .. " " .. users
        title = mw.ustring.gsub( title, '%[%[.-|(.-)%]%]', '%1' );
        title = mw.ustring.gsub( title, '%[', '' );
        title = mw.ustring.gsub( title, '%]', '' );
        title = mw.ustring.gsub( title, '%b<>', '' );
        
        if arcpage then 
            title= table.concat( {"[[", arcpage, "#", (title or ""), "|", title,  "]]"} );
        else 
            title= title or "" 
        end
        output = table.concat( {output, "\n|-\n|", title, "\n|", next_cursor-cursor, "\n|", label, "\n|", date, "\n|", users} ); -- debug ; many more goodies should be placed here!

        index = index + 2;
    until next_cursor == input_length
  
    return output
end
 
return p