Module:Motd Explained

local p =

function leapyear(year) local rem = year - 4 * math.floor(year/4) local leapyear if (rem>0.01) then leapyear = 0 else leapyear = 1 -- i.e. add a day to dates beyond February 28 end return leapyearend

function p.random(frame) return p.main(frame, true)end

function p.main(frame, rnd) local parent=frame.getParent(frame) or local yearparameter = (parent and parent.args.year) or frame.args.year local ydayparameter = (parent and parent.args.day) or frame.args.day local yday = ydayparameter if yday then yday = tonumber(yday) -- keep nil as nil, but tonumber otherwise; may be nil *now*. end local osdate = os.date("!*t", nil) math.randomseed(tonumber(osdate.sec) + 60 * tonumber(osdate.min) + 3600 * tonumber(osdate.hour) + 24 * 3600 * tonumber(osdate.yday)) -- random wasn't resetting, try this if rnd then yday = yday or math.random(366) else yday = yday or osdate.yday end yday = tonumber(yday) or 1 -- setting to number. Just in case, setting to 1 local year if rnd then year = yearparameter or math.random(2006, 2015) else year = yearparameter or osdate.year end local flag, mottos = pcall(mw.loadData,"Module:Motd/data/" .. tostring(year)) while ((flag

false) and (year > 2005)) do year = year - 1 -- look the year before for mottos flag, mottos = pcall(mw.loadData,"Module:Motd/data/" .. tostring(year)) if ydayparameter and mottos then if not mottos [yday+leapyear(year)] then flag = false -- if a specific day is required by parameter, throw out a year without this day end end end local motto local k = 0 repeat k = k + 1 motto = mottos[yday + leapyear(year)] -- if no motto for this day, try another day yday = math.random(366) until ((motto) or (k > 100)) return frame:preprocess(motto or "No matter where you go, there you are")end

function p.read(frame) local parent=frame.getParent(frame) or local currentpage, from, to ---- args in the #invoke itself trump args in the parent frame currentpage = (parent and parent.args.page) or frame.args.page from = (parent and parent.args.from) or frame.args.from or 0 to = (parent and parent.args.to) or frame.args.to or 9999 from, to = tonumber(from), tonumber(to) -- they get passed in as strings! -- from and to are kludges to get part of the data when I start getting too much expanded template errors (not needed!) -- I'm not sure getting the current page makes sense but I had the code handy so I'll leave it. local pagepointer if not(currentpage) then pagepointer=mw.title.getCurrentTitle assert(pagepointer,"failed to access getCurrentTitle") currentpage=pagepointer.fullText else pagepointer=mw.title.new(currentpage) assert(pagepointer,"failed to access mw.title.new("..tostring(currentpage)..")") end ---- get the text of the currentpage local text=pagepointer.getContent(pagepointer) assert (text,"error: failed to get text from ".. currentpage) local linkmatch = "%[%[(.-)%]%]" local prowl=mw.ustring.gmatch(text,linkmatch) local archive= local link=prowl local count = 0 while link do if (count >= from) and (count <= to) then link = mw.ustring.gmatch(link,"(.-)%|") or link flag, contents = pcall(frame.expandTemplate, frame,) -- table.insert(archive,'[==[' .. link .. ']

],
') -- I don't think I actually need to include the link for this use table.insert(archive,'[==[' .. contents .. ']==],
') end count = count + 1 link=prowl end local output="" for i = 1, table.maxn(archive) do output=output..(archive[i] or "") end output = mw.ustring.gsub(output,",
$","
") output = "<nowiki>return {
"..output.."}" return frame.preprocess(frame,output)end

function p.read11(frame) -- this is a copy of p.read being customized for 2010-2011 local parent=frame.getParent(frame) or local currentpage, from, to ---- args in the #invoke itself trump args in the parent frame currentpage = (parent and parent.args.page) or frame.args.page from = (parent and parent.args.from) or frame.args.from or 1 to = (parent and parent.args.to) or frame.args.to or 9999 from, to = tonumber(from), tonumber(to) -- they get passed in as strings! -- from and to are kludges to get part of the data when I start getting too much expanded template errors -- I'm not sure getting the current page makes sense but I had the code handy so I'll leave it. local pagepointer if not(currentpage) then pagepointer=mw.title.getCurrentTitle assert(pagepointer,"failed to access getCurrentTitle") currentpage=pagepointer.fullText else pagepointer=mw.title.new(currentpage) assert(pagepointer,"failed to access mw.title.new("..tostring(currentpage)..")") end ---- get the text of the currentpage local text=pagepointer.getContent(pagepointer) assert (text,"error: failed to get text from ".. currentpage) local linkmatch = "(.-)%s*%*?%[%[Wikipedia:Motto of the day/(.-)%]%]%s*%s*" local prowl=mw.ustring.gmatch(text,linkmatch) local archive= local contents, link = prowl local count = 0 while link do if (count >= from) and (count <= to) then contents = mw.ustring.gsub(contents,"%s*
$","") link = mw.ustring.gmatch(link,"(.-)%|") or link -- table.insert(archive,'[==[' .. link .. ']

],
') -- I don't think I actually need to include the link for this use table.insert(archive,'[==[' .. contents .. ']==],
') end count = count + 1 contents, link=prowl end if contents then table.insert(archive,'[==[' .. contents .. ']==],
') end local output="" for i = 1, table.maxn(archive) do output=output..(archive[i] or "") end output = mw.ustring.gsub(output,",
$","
") output = "<nowiki>return {
"..output.."}" return frame.preprocess(frame,output)end

function p.read06(frame) -- this is a copy of p.read to be run once to get the 2006 data local parent=frame.getParent(frame) or local currentpage, from, to ---- args in the #invoke itself trump args in the parent frame currentpage = (parent and parent.args.page) or frame.args.page from = (parent and parent.args.from) or frame.args.from or 1 to = (parent and parent.args.to) or frame.args.to or 9999 from, to = tonumber(from), tonumber(to) -- they get passed in as strings! -- from and to are kludges to get part of the data when I start getting too much expanded template errors -- I'm not sure getting the current page makes sense but I had the code handy so I'll leave it. local pagepointer if not(currentpage) then pagepointer=mw.title.getCurrentTitle assert(pagepointer,"failed to access getCurrentTitle") currentpage=pagepointer.fullText else pagepointer=mw.title.new(currentpage) assert(pagepointer,"failed to access mw.title.new("..tostring(currentpage)..")") end ---- get the text of the currentpage local text=pagepointer.getContent(pagepointer) assert (text,"error: failed to get text from ".. currentpage) local linkmatch = "(.-)%s*%*?(.-)%s*" local prowl=mw.ustring.gmatch(text,linkmatch) local archive= local contents, link = prowl local count = 0 while link do if (count >= from) and (count <= to) then contents = mw.ustring.gsub(contents,"%s*
$","") link = mw.ustring.gmatch(link,"(.-)%|") or link -- table.insert(archive,'[==[' .. link .. ']

],
') -- I don't think I actually need to include the link for this use table.insert(archive,'[==[' .. contents .. ']==],
') end count = count + 1 contents, link=prowl end if contents then table.insert(archive,'[==[' .. contents .. ']==],
') end local output="" for i = 1, table.maxn(archive) do output=output..(archive[i] or "") end output = mw.ustring.gsub(output,",
$","
") output = "<nowiki>return {
"..output.."}" return frame.preprocess(frame,output)end

return p