User:YBG/Living officeholders
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Note This describes a userspace draft intended to be implemented as {{Living officeholders}} and subtemplates. For an alternative implementation (no longer under active development), see {{User:YBG/Living officeholders row}}, intended to be implemented as {{Living officeholders row}}
Usage[edit]
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders|«office»}}
where «office» is one of:
- us-p for this table to be transcluded on Living presidents of the United States
- usvp for this table to be transcluded on Living vice presidents of the United States
- aupm for this table to be transcluded on Living prime ministers of Australia
- nzpm for this table to be transcluded on Living prime ministers of New Zealand
- ukpm for this table to be transcluded on Living prime ministers of the United Kingdom (not yet implemented)
Overview of pages[edit]
There are three types of templates involved in this system
- The main template (should not need any updating)
- Office-specific subtemplates (update when officeholder data changes)
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/us-p-table}}&{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/us-p}}{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/usvp-table}}&{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/usvp}}{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/aupm-table}}&{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/aupm}}{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/nzpm-table}}&{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/nzpm}}{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/ukpm-table}}&{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/ukpm}}
- Maintenance necessary when a living office holder dies
- Modify {{.../«office»}} by adding the death date and description
- Modify {{.../«office»-table}} by adding
|evt2=-Nto the last row and then appending a new row with|evt1=-N
- Maintenance necessary when a new officeholder assumes office
- Modify {{.../«office»}} by adding a new block for the new officeholder
- Modify {{.../«office»-table}} by adding
|evt2=+Nto the last row and then appending a new row with|evt1=+N
- Maintenance necessary to 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 {{.../«office»-table}} for the new office with the header, footer and one call to {{.../row}} for each chronological period
- Create or modify the page in article space, transcluding the main template
- Generic subtemplates (update when changing format)
- Maintenance required to modify the format of all templates
- Modify {{.../row}}, and test it by previewing {{.../testcases}}
- Modify {{.../«office»-table}} headers and footers if necessary
- Maintenance required to modify the colors or style of the officeholder boxes
- Modify {{.../box}} and test it by previewing {{.../testcases}}
- Maintenance required to implement an idiosyncratic format for some but not all offices
- Create a new {{.../rowN}} that generates the desired format
- Add test case(s) to {{.../testcases#Row}} and modify {{.../rowN}} until it works OK
- Modify {{.../«office»-table}} by (a) adjusting the headers and footers and (b) calling the new {{.../rowN}}
Structure[edit]
This system of subtemplates includes:
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders}}- the main template- Called from article space with a single unnamed parameter to specify the type of officeholder.
- Calls {{.../«office»-table}}
- {{User:YBG/Living officeholders/«office»-table}} - Header, footer, and row-by-row date for each office (us-p,usvp,aupm,nzpm,ukpm)
- Called by the main template with no parameters
- Calls {{.../row}} once for each row of the table. Header and footer may call {{.../plusminus}} and {{.../box}}
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/row}}- formats a single row in the table. Alternate versions {{.../row«N»}} are available for «N» = 1 to 5.- Called by {{.../«office»-table}} with multiple parameters:
|fmt=specifies the date format|job=specifies the office so that the generic {{.../row}} subtemplate knows which data to use- = us-p, usvp for rows in tables in the articles about the Living presidents and vice presidents of the United States.
- = aupm, nzpm, ukpm for rows in the tables in the articles about the Living prime ministers of Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.
|evt1=: positive (negative) number for an accession (death) at the start of the period.|evt1=+1triggers column headers before row.|evt2=: positive (negative) number for an accession (death) at the end of the period. Undefined defaults to (Present), triggers footers after row.|ev1a=,|ev2a=: (optional) positive number for the mid-term accession following death of an officeholder|hours=: (optional) number of hours in period. Overrides calculated time span. Used for the first of the two July 4, 1826 deaths|1=,|2=, ...|10=: numbers representing officeholders alive during the period (optional sign ignored)
- Calls {{.../«office»}}, {{.../box}}, {{.../plusminus}}
- Called by {{.../«office»-table}} with multiple parameters:
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/box}}- displays a colored box that links to article for an officeholder- Called by {{.../row}} and (for headers and footers) by {{.../«office»-table}}
|1=the ordinal number of the officeholder (optionally signed)|2=the code that specifies the office
- Calls {{.../«office»}}
- Called by {{.../row}} and (for headers and footers) by {{.../«office»-table}}
- {{User:YBG/Living officeholders/«office»}} - Provides office-specific data for other templates (us-p,usvp,aupm,nzpm,ukpm)
- Called by {{.../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 (default) for the officeholder's name (i.e., WP article title)
- Calls no other templates in this system
- Called by {{.../row}} and {{.../box}} to retrieve office-specific data.
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/plusminus}}- provides +/− signs consistently formatted based on the sign of the parameter- Called by {{.../row}} and (for headers and footers) by {{.../«office»-table}}
|1=optionally signed ordinal number of the officeholder
- Calls no other templates in this system
- Called by {{.../row}} and (for headers and footers) by {{.../«office»-table}}
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/testcases}}- tests all living officeholder subtenplates- Called by no other templates
- Calls every living officeholder subtemplate
{{User:YBG/Living officeholders/testcases/row}}- designed to test {{.../row}}- Called by {{.../testcases}}
|row=: row1, row2, etc. - the row variety to be tested.
- Calls {{.../row«N»}}
- Called by {{.../testcases}}