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m (Although I don't understand why you've added 2... you can just use parenthesis.)
 
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{{{ {{#expr: ( {{#time:U}} mod {{{1}}} ) + 2 }} }}}
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{{Quotation|'''The Medic''', making preparations|... Let's go practice medicine.|sound=LetsGoPracticeMedicine.wav}}
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{{Doc begin}}
  
{{#random:1
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This template will select a random item from the list of items passed in and "return" it.  Effectively including one of the passed in items at random.
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=== Syntax ===
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<nowiki>
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{{User:Kevincox/Random|3
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|{{Quotation|'''The Medic''', making preparations|... Let's go practice medicine.|sound=LetsGoPracticeMedicine.wav}}
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|{{Quotation|'''Kevin Cox''', writing a template|Please work!}}
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|{{Quotation|'''Kevin Cox''', running out of things to say.|Ummm...}}
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}}
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</nowiki>
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The first argument is the number of items and the rest of the arguments are the items themselves.  Below is the above example.
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{{User:Kevincox/Random|3
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|{{Quotation|'''The Medic''', making preparations|... Let's go practice medicine.|sound=LetsGoPracticeMedicine.wav}}
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|{{Quotation|'''Kevin Cox''', writing a template|Please work!.}}
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|{{Quotation|'''Kevin Cox''', running out of things to say.|Ummm...}}
 
}}
 
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=== Updating Notes ===
<random count="1">
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Because Mediawiki caches pages to improve performance the template will only update when the page is purged, this happens when a page, or any templates on a page are edited.  The cache is also invalidated and purged every <code>$wgParserCacheExpireTime</code> seconds (the default is 24h) see [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Parser_Cache this page] for more info.
<item>Quote 1</item>
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<item>Quote 2</item>
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</noinclude>
<item>Quote 3</item>
 
</random>
 

Latest revision as of 17:48, 28 November 2012


Documentation for Kevincox/Random


This template will select a random item from the list of items passed in and "return" it. Effectively including one of the passed in items at random.

Syntax

 {{User:Kevincox/Random|3
 |{{Quotation|'''The Medic''', making preparations|... Let's go practice medicine.|sound=LetsGoPracticeMedicine.wav}}
 |{{Quotation|'''Kevin Cox''', writing a template|Please work!}}
 |{{Quotation|'''Kevin Cox''', running out of things to say.|Ummm...}}
 }}
 

The first argument is the number of items and the rest of the arguments are the items themselves. Below is the above example.


Please work!.
Kevin Cox, writing a template



Updating Notes

Because Mediawiki caches pages to improve performance the template will only update when the page is purged, this happens when a page, or any templates on a page are edited. The cache is also invalidated and purged every $wgParserCacheExpireTime seconds (the default is 24h) see this page for more info.