Module:Transclude DYK

local p = {}

-- Transclude randomly selected "Did you know?" entries function p.main(frame) -- args = { 1,2,... = page names, paragraphs = list e.g. "1,3-5", files = list, more = text} local args = {} -- args[k] = frame.args[k] or frame:getParent.args[k] for all k in either (numeric or not) for k, v in pairs(frame:getParent.args) do args[k] = v end for k, v in pairs(frame.args) do args[k] = v end -- args from a Lua call have priority over parent args from template

-- Read the input page local page = args[1] or error("No page name given") local title = mw.title.new(page) or error("Missing input page " .. page) local text = title:getContent or error("No content for page " .. page)

-- Limit to the DYK section if present local sectionstart = mw.ustring.find(text, "\n==Did you know? articles==", 1, true) if sectionstart then local sectionend = mw.ustring.find(text, "\n==", sectionstart + 1, true) or -1 text = mw.ustring.sub(text, sectionstart, sectionend) end

-- Parse the entries entries = {} for entry in mw.ustring.gmatch(text, "\n%*[.…%s]*([^\n]+)") do		if not mw.ustring.find(entry, "article's talk page missing blurb", 1, true) then table.insert(entries, entry) end end

-- Swap some random entries into the first n positions local n = math.min(#entries, args.count or 10) -- the number of entries to produce math.randomseed(os.time) for i = 1, n do		j = math.random(i, #entries) entries[i], entries[j] = "*... " .. entries[j], entries[i] end

-- Return the first n entries text = table.concat(entries, "\n", 1, n)	return frame:preprocess(text) end

return p