Module:Tabular data/doc

This module provides basic functions for interacting with tabular data on Wikimedia Commons.

cell

Returns the value of the cell at the given row index and column name.

Usage: {{#invoke:Tabular data|cell|Page name.tab|output_row=Index of row to output|output_column=Name of column to output}}

A row index of 1 refers to the first row in the table. A row index of -1 refers to the last row in the table. It is an error to specify a row index of 0.

Examples

Latest death toll in c:Data:COVID-19 Cases in Santa Clara County, California.tab (regardless of when the table was last updated):

lookup

Returns the value of the cell(s) in one or more output columns of the row matching the search key and column.

This function is reminiscent of LOOKUP() macros in popular spreadsheet applications, except that the search key must match exactly. (On the other hand, this means the table does not need to be sorted.)

Usage: {{#invoke:Tabular data|lookup|Page name.tab|search_value=Value to find in column|search_column=Name of column to search in|output_column=Name of column to output|output_column2=Name of another column to output|output_columnn=…|output_format=String format to output the column values in}}

Some may find {{Tabular query}} (which uses this module) an intuitive way to obtain cell data as it resembles a simple SQL query.

Examples

Total confirmed case count in c:Data:COVID-19 Cases in Santa Clara County, California.tab on the day that the county issued a stay-at-home order:

Total number of administrators on all Wikimedia wikis using c:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab:

{{#invoke:Tabular data|lookup
|search_column=site
|output_column=admins
|search_value=total.all
|Wikipedia statistics/data.tab}}

5563

Number of administrators and users on all Wikimedia wikis using c:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab:

{{#invoke:Tabular data|lookup
|output_format=%d out of %d users are administrators
|search_column=site
|output_column2=users
|output_column=admins
|search_value=total.all
|Wikipedia statistics/data.tab}}

5563 out of 220705982 users are administrators

wikitable

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T252307

Returns the entire data table as a (rather plain) table.

Usage: {{#invoke:Tabular data|wikitable|Page name.tab}}

Examples

COVID-19 statistics in Santa Clara County, California

Implementation notes

The implementation of this function incorporates {{n/a}} (to represent null values), {{yes}} (true), and {{no}} (false). The templates themselves cannot be reused because they are incompatible with the mw.html library, which builds the table using an HTML DOM instead of pure wikitext.

Internationalization

You can most likely port this template to a wiki in another language without making major modifications. The wikitable function automatically localizes the table's description, column titles, and license name into the wiki's content language. It also formats numbers according to the content language. However, you should localize the cells representing true, false, and null by changing the values in the messages, bgColors, and colors variables to match the wiki's own {{yes}}, {{no}}, and {{n/a}} templates, respectively.

See also

• {{Json2table}} and {{#invoke:Json2table|json2table}}