The purpose of this module is to prepare the data used by to allow conversion between units of measurement.
Usage: Put one of the following lines (with nothing else) in a sandbox:
<nowiki>{{#invoke:convert/makeunits|makeunits}}</nowiki><nowiki>{{subst:#invoke:convert/makeunits|makeunits}}</nowiki>Previewing the sandbox should display the wikitext that needs to be copied and pasted into . If a problem occurs, warning messages will be displayed to indicate that the unit definitions need to be fixed.
By default, the module reads the unit definitions from . For testing purposes, it is possible to specify that the definitions are read from another page, for example,, by specifying the wanted title:
<nowiki>{{#invoke:convert/makeunits|makeunits|User:Johnuniq/sandbox2}}</nowiki><nowiki>{{subst:#invoke:convert/makeunits|makeunits|User:Johnuniq/sandbox2}}</nowiki>The module contains table specials which is used to insert a small amount of "built-in" data that is not currently defined in the input wikitext.
The module reads data from to allow localization of the table of units for use on another wiki.