Module:Effective protection expiry explained

local p =

-- Returns the expiry of a restriction of an action on a given title, or unknown if it cannot be known.-- If no title is specified, the title of the page being displayed is used.function p._main(action, pagename) local title if type(pagename)

'table' and pagename.prefixedText then title = pagename elseif pagename then title = mw.title.new(pagename) else title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle end pagename = title.prefixedText if action

'autoreview' then local stabilitySettings = mw.ext.FlaggedRevs.getStabilitySettings(title) return stabilitySettings and stabilitySettings.expiry or 'unknown' elseif action ~= 'edit' and action ~= 'move' and action ~= 'create' and action ~= 'upload' then error('First parameter must be one of edit, move, create, upload, autoreview', 2) end local rawExpiry = mw.getCurrentFrame:callParserFunction('PROTECTIONEXPIRY', action, pagename) if rawExpiry

'infinity' then return 'infinity' elseif rawExpiry

then return 'unknown' else local year, month, day, hour, minute, second = rawExpiry:match('^(%d%d%d%d)(%d%d)(%d%d)(%d%d)(%d%d)(%d%d)$' ) if year then return string.format('%s-%s-%sT%s:%s:%s', year, month, day, hour, minute, second ) else error('internal error in Module:Effective protection expiry; malformed expiry timestamp') end endend

setmetatable(p,)

return p