Module:Section Link
This module creates links to sections, nicely formatted with the "§" symbol instead of the default "#".
Usage
From wikitext
From wikitext, this module should be used via the template {{section link}}. Please see the template page for documentation.
From Lua
First, load the module:
local mSectionLink = require('Module:Section link')
You can then make section links via the _main function.
mSectionLink._main(page, sections, options, title)
Parameters:
- page - the page name to link to. Defaults to the full page name of title, or the current title if that is not specified.
- sections - an array of section names to link to, or a string to link to just one section name.
- options - a table of options. Accepts the following fields:
- nopage - set this to true to avoid displaying the base page name in links.
- title - a default mw.title object to use instead of the current title. Intended for testing purposes.
All parameters are optional.
Examples
Lua code
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Wikitext code
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Result
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mSectionLink('Paris')
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{{section link|Paris}}
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{{Section link}}: required section parameter(s) missing
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mSectionLink('Paris', 'Architecture')
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{{section link|Paris|Architecture}}
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Paris § Architecture
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mSectionLink('Paris', {'Architecture', 'Culture'})
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{{section link|Paris|Architecture|Culture}}
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Paris §§ Architecture and Culture
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mSectionLink('Paris', {'Architecture', 'Culture', 'Sport'})
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{{section link|Paris|Architecture|Culture|Sport}}
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Paris §§ Architecture, Culture, and Sport
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mSectionLink('Paris', {'Architecture', 'Culture', 'Sport'}, {nopage = true})
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{{section link|Paris|Architecture|Culture|Sport|nopage=yes}}
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§§ Architecture, Culture, and Sport
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See also
-- This module implements {{section link}}.
require('strict');
local checkType = require('libraryUtil').checkType
local p = {}
local function makeSectionLink(page, section, display)
display = display or section
page = page or ''
-- MediaWiki doesn't allow these in 'page', so only need to do for 'section'
if type(section) == 'string' then
section = string.gsub(section, "{", "{")
section = string.gsub(section, "}", "}")
end
return string.format('[[%s#%s|%s]]', page, section, display)
end
local function normalizeTitle(title)
title = mw.ustring.gsub(mw.ustring.gsub(title, "'", ""), '"', '')
title = mw.ustring.gsub(title, "%b<>", "")
return mw.title.new(title).prefixedText
end
function p._main(page, sections, options, title)
-- Validate input.
checkType('_main', 1, page, 'string', true)
checkType('_main', 3, options, 'table', true)
if sections == nil then
sections = {}
elseif type(sections) == 'string' then
sections = {sections}
elseif type(sections) ~= 'table' then
error(string.format(
"type error in argument #2 to '_main' " ..
"(string, table or nil expected, got %s)",
type(sections)
), 2)
end
options = options or {}
title = title or mw.title.getCurrentTitle()
-- Deal with blank page names elegantly
if page and not page:find('%S') then
page = nil
options.nopage = true
end
-- Make the link(s).
local isShowingPage = not options.nopage
if #sections <= 1 then
local linkPage = page or ''
if options.permalink then -- when oldid provided
linkPage = 'Special:Permalink/' .. options.permalink; -- make Special:Permalink/oldid wikilink
end
local section = sections[1]; -- sections[1] must have a value
local display = '§ ' .. section
if isShowingPage then
page = page or title.prefixedText
if options.display and options.display ~= '' then
if normalizeTitle(options.display) == normalizeTitle(page) then
display = options.display .. ' ' .. display
else
error(string.format(
'Display title "%s" was ignored since it is ' ..
"not equivalent to the page's actual title",
options.display
), 0)
end
else
display = page .. ' ' .. display
end
end
return makeSectionLink(linkPage, section, display)
else
-- Multiple sections. First, make a list of the links to display.
local ret = {}
for i, section in ipairs(sections) do
ret[i] = makeSectionLink(page, section)
end
-- Assemble the list of links into a string with mw.text.listToText.
-- We use the default separator for mw.text.listToText, but a custom
-- conjunction. There is also a special case conjunction if we only
-- have two links.
local conjunction
if #sections == 2 then
conjunction = '​ and '
else
conjunction = ', and '
end
ret = mw.text.listToText(ret, nil, conjunction)
-- Add the intro text.
local intro = '§§ '
if isShowingPage then
intro = (page or title.prefixedText) .. ' ' .. intro
end
ret = intro .. ret
return ret
end
end
function p.main(frame)
local yesno = require('Module:Yesno')
local args = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs(frame, {
wrappers = 'Template:Section link',
valueFunc = function (key, value)
value = value:match('^%s*(.-)%s*$') -- Trim whitespace
-- Allow blank first parameters, as the wikitext template does this.
if value ~= '' or key == 1 then
return value
end
end
})
for k, v in pairs(args) do -- replace underscores in the positional parameter values
if 'number' == type(k) then
if not yesno (args['keep-underscores']) then -- unless |keep-underscores=yes
args[k] = mw.uri.decode (v, 'WIKI'); -- percent-decode; replace underscores with space characters
else
args[k] = mw.uri.decode (v, 'PATH'); -- percent-decode; retain underscores
end
end
end
-- Sort the arguments.
local page
local sections, options = {}, {}
for k, v in pairs(args) do
if k == 1 then
-- Doing this in the loop because of a bug in [[Module:Arguments]]
-- when using pairs with deleted arguments.
page = mw.text.decode(v, true)
elseif type(k) == 'number' then
sections[k] = v
else
options[k] = v
end
end
options.nopage = yesno (options.nopage); -- make boolean
-- Extract section from page, if present
if page then
local p, s = page:match('^(.-)#(.*)$')
if p then page, sections[1] = p, s end
end
-- Compress the sections array.
local function compressArray(t)
local nums, ret = {}, {}
for num in pairs(t) do
nums[#nums + 1] = num
end
table.sort(nums)
for i, num in ipairs(nums) do
ret[i] = t[num]
end
return ret
end
sections = compressArray(sections)
if not sections[1] then -- empty section parameter makes {{Section link}} meaningless
return ('<span style="color:#d33"><span style="font-family:monospace">{{[[Template:Section link|Section link]]}}</span>: required section parameter(s) missing</span>'); -- emit error message and abandon
end
return p._main(page, sections, options)
end
return p