User:YBG/Living officeholders row
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Note This describes a userspace draft intended to be implemented as {{Living officeholders row}} and subtemplates. I am no longer working on this version, instead I'm working on an alternative implementation, see {{User:YBG/Living officeholders}}, intended to be implemented as {{Living officeholders}}
Usage[edit]
{{ Living officeholders row | Job=<job> | fmt=<fmt> | evt1=<evt1> | evt2=<evt2> | <#1> | <#2> | ... | <#10> }}
where
|job=specifies the office to facilitate looking up the correct data.- = us-p, usvp for rows in tables in the articles about the Living presidents and vice presidents of the United States.
- = aupm, sepm, nzpm, ukpm (not yet implemented) for the Living prime ministers of Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, and the UK.
|fmt=: specifies the date format|evt1=: positive (negative) number for an accession (death) at the start of the period|evt2=: positive (negative) number for an accession (death) at the end of the period (optional, defaults to today)|ev1a=,|ev2a=: (optional) positive number for the mid-term accession following death of an officeholder|span=: (optional) text to override the calculated time span; used for the first of the two July 4, 1826 deaths|1=,|2=, ...|10=: optionally signed numbers representing officeholders alive during the period
Overview of pages[edit]
The pages involved in this system include:
- The generic template and subtemplates (update when changing format):
- The office-specific data template (update when officeholder data changes):
- The article space pages (update when officeholder data changes):
Maintenance[edit]
Here are general instructions for each anticipated type of maintenance activity:
- A Living officeholder (#N) dies
- Modify {{.../<office>}} by adding the death date and description
- Modify [[Living <officeholder>s]] by adding
|evt2=-Nto the last row and then appending a new row with|evt1=-N
- A new officeholder (#N) assumes office
- Modify {{.../<office>}} by adding a new block for the new officeholder
- Modify [[Living <officeholder>s]] by adding
|evt2=+Nto the last row and then appending a new row with|evt1=+N
- Expand the system for a new type of officeholder
- Create {{.../<office>}} for the new office with name and event information for all officeholders
- Modify {{.../testcases}} by adding a new section to display all of the data for the new office type.
- Create or modify the page in article space [[Living <officeholder>s]] for the new office with general information plus the header, footer and one call to {{User:YBG/Living officeholders row}} for each chronological period
- Modify the format of all templates
- Modify {{User:YBG/Living officeholders row}}, and and test it by previewing {{.../testcases}}
- Modify [[Living <officeholder>s]] headers and footers if necessary
- Modify the colors or style of the officeholder boxes
- Modify {{.../box}} and test it by previewing {{.../testcases}}
- Implement an idiosyncratic format for some but not all offices
- Create a new {{User:YBG/Living officeholders rowN}} that generates the desired format
- Add test case(s) to {{.../testcases#Row}} and modify {{User:YBG/Living officeholders rowN}} until it works OK
- Modify [[Living <officeholder>s]] by (a) adjusting the headers and footers and (b) calling the new {{User:YBG/Living officeholders rowN}}
Structure[edit]
This system of subtemplates includes:
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders row}}- the main template, formats a single row in the table.- Called from article space with multiple parameters (explained above)
- Calls {{<office>}}, {{.../box}}, {{.../plusminus}}
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders row/box}}- Displays a colored box that links to an article on an officeholder- Called by {{User:YBG/Living officeholders row}} and (for headers and footers) from article space
|1=the ordinal number of the officeholder (optionally signed)|2=the code that specifies the office
- Calls {{<office>}}
- Called by {{User:YBG/Living officeholders row}} and (for headers and footers) from article space
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders row/us-p}}{{User:YBG/Living officeholders row/usvp}}- specifies the office-specific data, provides data for use by other templates- Called by {{User:YBG/Living officeholders row}} and {{.../box}} to retrieve office-specific data.
|1=positive (negative) officeholder number for accession (death) info; either is OK for name|2=date/descr date/description of the event, name for the officeholder's name (i.e., WP article title)
- Calls no other templates in this system
- Called by {{User:YBG/Living officeholders row}} and {{.../box}} to retrieve office-specific data.
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders row/plusminus}}- Provides +/− signs consistently formatted based on the sign of the parameter- Called by {{User:YBG/Living officeholders row}} and (for headers and footers) from article space
|1=optionally signed ordinal number of the officeholder
- Calls no other templates in this system
- Called by {{User:YBG/Living officeholders row}} and (for headers and footers) from article space
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders row/testcases}}- designed to test all (sub)templates in this system- Called by no other templates in this system
- Calls no other templates in this system