25 April 2007

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Extension:When

The #when parser-function is used to add time information to articles. Just add a single parameter which can be arbitrarily formatted time information, for example:

{{#when:2009/4/24}} - best to do dates backwards like this otherwise it tries to use some weird American format

{{#when:24 apr 2009}}

{{#when:24 apr, 4:30pm}} - current year is used here since not specified

The function expands to a set of category links to categorise the article into year, month, day-of-month, full-weekday-name and time (24 hour HH:MM:SS format). Articles exhibiting time can then be matched with a DPL query, for example:

{{#dpl:category=2006|category=April}}

The parser function which adds this is very simple consisting of the following code in the LocalSettings.php file.

• The local article about #when is Template:When
• The MediaWiki article is MW:Extension:When

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OD2: Beginning New Organic Design Structure

We've never been able to get the Organic Design wiki into an organised state, but I think the DPL extension can be the solution to this. We now have enough tools within the wiki environment to manage and organise all aspects of a simple organisation including accounts and scheduling - they just need to be glued together into a unified functional system.

Organic Design 2 is about creating a new structure from the ground up which encompasses all the organisational aspects we need, and does so in a re-usable way by creating it as a template-wiki. This article describes the proposed components of this template-wiki and their use, meaning and structure.

• See Organic Design 2 for details and discussion.