Module:Signpost
This module makes indexes of articles for the Signpost. It has two main functions:
- Making formatted lists of articles. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article list maker for documentation.
- Counting the number articles that fit certain criteria. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count for documentation.
- Note that this is part of a triumvirate of softwares: the indices are read by the module, but they're also written by SignpostTagger AND Wegweiser. Also SPS.JS is involved in some stuff.
Article data
The article data is stored in index modules organised by year, like Module:Signpost/index/2005, Module:Signpost/index/2006, etc. You can see the full list of index modules here. The data for all Signpost articles for a given year goes in that year's index module.
It is possible to edit the index modules by hand, but the recommended way is to use the SignpostTagger gadget. With SignpostTagger you can edit article data directly from Signpost article pages, and using it eliminates the possibility of making formatting errors or putting the data in the wrong place.
Data points
The index modules each contain a list of articles for that year. Each article has the following data points:
date
: The date the article was published, in YYYY-MM-DD formatsubpage
: The subpage of the article. For example, for the special report "Adminship from the German perspective" located at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-10-22/Special report, the subpage is "Special report".title
: The article's title.authors
: Array listing authors of the article, as read by Wegweiser and SignpostTagger (based on displayed text from the author field, not links).tags
: A list of tags for the article. For example, the special report mentioned above has the tags "germanwikipedia", "reformingrfa", "requestsforadminship", and "specialreport" (optional).views
: Set of key-value pairs for views over seven intervals:d007
(7 days),d015
(15 days),d030
,d060
,d090
,d120
,d180
.subhead
: Article subheading (not normally displayed in the article, but can be parsed out of the "RSS description" template).piccy
: Set of key-value pairs for associating an image with an article (optional).
filename
: Image credit to display as overlay (i.e. author of image).license
: Short string for image license in overlay (i.e. "CC 4.0 BY-SA").scaling
: Scaling, width-based: default is 300, which is the width of the snippet template.xoffset
: X-offset (i.e. how many pixels to crop from the left if scaling gives an image wider than 300px).yoffset
: Y-offset (i.e. how many pixels to crop from the top if scaling gives an image taller than 300px).
Tags and aliases
Tags are used to classify articles. For example, you can find all of the humourous articles by using the article list maker template to list all articles with the tag "humour". It is also possible to specify aliases for tags. For example, "humor" is an alias for the "humour" tag, so when you are tagging an article with SignpostTagger you can use either one of them. Tag aliases are stored at Module:Signpost/aliases.
Subpages
Test cases
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article list maker, sort by tag (arbitrationreport), limit 5, include subhead
2024-01-10, News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!, by Andreas Kolbe
local INDEX_MODULE = 'Module:Signpost/index'
local lang = mw.language.getContentLanguage()
local libraryUtil = require('libraryUtil')
local checkType = libraryUtil.checkType
local checkTypeForNamedArg = libraryUtil.checkTypeForNamedArg
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-- Article class
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local Article = {}
Article.__index = Article
Article.viewSpans = {7, 15, 30, 60, 90, 120, 180}
Article.rowMethods = {
page = 'getPage',
fullpage = 'getFullPage',
date = 'getDate',
title = 'getTitle',
subpage = 'getSubpage',
author = 'getAuthor',
subhead = 'getSubhead',
}
-- Register viewsNN row methods
for _, span in ipairs(Article.viewSpans) do
Article.rowMethods["views" .. span] = "getViews" .. span
end
function Article.new(data)
local self = setmetatable({}, Article)
self.data = data
self.matchedTags = {}
return self
end
function Article:getSortKey()
return self.data.sortKey
end
function Article:getPage()
return self.data.page
end
function Article:getDate()
return self.data.date
end
function Article:getTitle()
return self.data.title
end
function Article:getSubpage()
return self.data.subpage
end
function Article:getAuthor()
return self.data.authors[1]
end
function Article:getAuthors()
return self.data.authors
end
-- Add getViewsNN methods
for _, span in ipairs(Article.viewSpans) do
Article["getViews" .. span] = function(self)
if self.data.views then
return self.data.views[string.format("d%03d", span)]
else
return nil
end
end
end
function Article:getSubhead()
return self.data.subhead
end
function Article:getFragment()
local fragment = self:getMatchedTags()[1]
if fragment then
return mw.uri.anchorEncode(fragment)
end
end
function Article:getFullPage()
local page = self:getPage()
local fragment = self:getFragment()
if fragment then
return page .. '#' .. fragment
else
return page
end
end
function Article:addMatchedTag(tag)
table.insert(self.matchedTags, tag)
end
function Article:getMatchedTags()
table.sort(self.matchedTags)
return self.matchedTags
end
function Article:hasAllTags(t)
local tags = self.data.tags
for i, testTag in ipairs(t) do
local hasTag = false
for j, tag in ipairs(tags) do
if tag == testTag then
hasTag = true
end
end
if not hasTag then
return false
end
end
return true
end
function Article:makeRowArgs()
local methods = self.rowMethods
local args = setmetatable({}, {
__index = function (t, key)
local method = methods[key]
if method then
return self[method](self)
else
error(string.format(
"'%s' is not a valid parameter name",
key
), 2)
end
end
})
return args
end
function Article:renderTemplate(template, frame)
frame = frame or mw.getCurrentFrame()
local args = {}
for key, method in pairs(self.rowMethods) do
args[key] = self[method](self)
end
return frame:expandTemplate{
title = template,
args = args
}
end
function Article:renderFormat(format)
local args = self:makeRowArgs(articleObj)
local ret = format:gsub('(%${([%a%d]+)})', function (match, key)
return args[key] or match
end)
return ret
end
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-- List class
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local List = {}
List.__index = List
function List.new(options)
checkType('List.new', 1, options, 'table')
checkTypeForNamedArg('List.new', 'args', options.args, 'table', true)
local self = setmetatable({}, List)
self.index = options.index or mw.loadData(INDEX_MODULE)
self.frame = options.frame or mw.getCurrentFrame()
local args = options.args or {}
-- Set output formats
if not options.suppressFormatErrors
and args.rowtemplate
and args.rowformat
then
error("you cannot use both the 'rowtemplate' and the 'rowformat' arguments", 2)
elseif not options.suppressFormatErrors
and not args.rowtemplate
and not args.rowformat
then
error("you must use either the 'rowtemplate' or the 'rowformat' argument", 2)
else
self.rowtemplate = args.rowtemplate
self.rowformat = args.rowformat
end
if args.rowseparator == 'newline' then
self.rowseparator = '\n'
else
self.rowseparator = args.rowseparator
end
self.noarticles = args.noarticles
-- Get article objects, filtered by page, date and tag, and sort them.
if args.page then
self.articles = { self:getPageArticle(args.page) }
elseif args.date then
self.articles = self:getDateArticles(args.date)
else
self.articles = self:getTagArticles(args.tags, args.tagmatch)
if not self.articles then
self.articles = self:getAllArticles()
end
self:filterArticlesByDate(args.startdate, args.enddate)
self:filterArticlesByAuthor(args.author)
end
self:sortArticles(args.sortdir, args.sortfield)
if (args.limit and tonumber(args.limit)) or (args.start and tonumber(args.start)) then
self:limitArticleCount(tonumber(args.start), tonumber(args.limit))
end
return self
end
-- Static methods
function List.normalizeDate(date)
if not date then
return nil
end
return lang:formatDate('Y-m-d', date)
end
-- Normal methods
function List:parseTagString(s)
local ret = {}
-- Remove whitespace and punctuation
for i, tag in ipairs(mw.text.split(s, ',')) do
tag = mw.ustring.gsub(tag, '[%s%p]', '')
if tag ~= '' then
tag = mw.ustring.lower(tag)
table.insert(ret, tag)
end
end
-- Resolve aliases
for i, tag in ipairs(ret) do
ret[i] = self.index.aliases[tag] or tag
end
-- Remove duplicates
local function removeDuplicates(t)
local vals, ret = {}, {}
for i, val in ipairs(t) do
vals[val] = true
end
for val in pairs(vals) do
table.insert(ret, val)
end
table.sort(ret)
return ret
end
ret = removeDuplicates(ret)
return ret
end
function List:getPageArticle(page)
local data = self.index.pages[page]
if data then
return Article.new(data)
end
end
function List:getDateArticles(date)
date = self.normalizeDate(date)
local dates = self.index.dates[date]
local ret = {}
if dates then
for i, data in ipairs(dates) do
ret[i] = Article.new(data)
end
end
return ret
end
function List:getTagArticles(s, tagMatch)
if not s then
return nil
end
local tagIndex = self.index.tags
local ret, pages = {}, {}
local tags = self:parseTagString(s)
for i, tag in ipairs(tags) do
local dataArray = tagIndex[tag]
if dataArray then
for i, data in ipairs(dataArray) do
local obj = Article.new(data)
-- Make sure we only have one object per page.
if pages[obj:getPage()] then
obj = pages[obj:getPage()]
else
pages[obj:getPage()] = obj
end
-- Record which tag we matched.
obj:addMatchedTag(tag)
end
end
end
for page, obj in pairs(pages) do
if not tagMatch
or tagMatch == 'any'
or tagMatch == 'all' and obj:hasAllTags(tags)
then
table.insert(ret, obj)
end
end
return ret
end
function List:getAllArticles()
local ret = {}
for i, data in ipairs(self.index.list) do
ret[i] = Article.new(data)
end
return ret
end
function List:getArticleCount()
return #self.articles
end
function List:filterArticlesByDate(startDate, endDate)
startDate = self.normalizeDate(startDate) or '2005-01-01'
endDate = self.normalizeDate(endDate) or lang:formatDate('Y-m-d')
local ret = {}
for i, article in ipairs(self.articles) do
local date = article:getDate()
if startDate <= date and date <= endDate then
table.insert(ret, article)
end
end
self.articles = ret
end
function List:filterArticlesByAuthor(targetAuthor)
if not targetAuthor then
return
end
local ret = {}
for i, article in ipairs(self.articles) do
for j, author in ipairs(article:getAuthors()) do
if author == targetAuthor then
table.insert(ret, article)
end
end
end
self.articles = ret
end
function List:sortArticles(direction, field)
local accessor
if not field or field == 'date' then
accessor = function (article) return article:getSortKey() end
elseif field == 'page' then
accessor = function (article) return article:getPage() end
elseif field == 'title' then
accessor = function (article) return article:getTitle() end
else
error(string.format("'%s' is not a valid sort field", field), 2)
end
local sortFunc
if not direction or direction == 'ascending' then
sortFunc = function (a, b)
return accessor(a) < accessor(b)
end
elseif direction == 'descending' then
sortFunc = function (a, b)
return accessor(a) > accessor(b)
end
else
error(string.format("'%s' is not a valid sort direction", direction), 2)
end
table.sort(self.articles, sortFunc)
end
function List:limitArticleCount(start, limit)
local ret = {}
for i, article in ipairs(self.articles) do
if limit and #ret >= limit then
break
end
if not start or i > start then
table.insert(ret, article)
end
end
self.articles = ret
end
function List:renderRow(articleObj)
if self.rowtemplate then
return articleObj:renderTemplate(self.rowtemplate, self.frame)
elseif self.rowformat then
return articleObj:renderFormat(self.rowformat)
else
error('neither rowtemplate nor rowformat were specified')
end
end
function List:__tostring()
local ret = {}
for i, obj in ipairs(self.articles) do
table.insert(ret, self:renderRow(obj))
end
if #ret < 1 then
return self.noarticles
or '<span style="font-color: red;">' ..
'No articles found for the arguments specified</span>'
else
return table.concat(ret, self.rowseparator)
end
end
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-- Exports
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local p = {}
local function makeInvokeFunc(func)
return function (frame, index)
local args = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs(frame, {
parentOnly = true
})
return func(args, index)
end
end
function p._exportClasses()
return {
Article = Article,
List = List
}
end
function p._count(args, index)
local list = List.new{
args = args,
index = index,
suppressFormatErrors = true
}
return list:getArticleCount()
end
p.count = makeInvokeFunc(p._count)
function p._main(args, index)
return tostring(List.new{args = args, index = index})
end
p.main = makeInvokeFunc(p._main)
return p