Difference between revisions of "User:Kevincox/Random"
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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> | ||
| + | {{User:Kevincox/RandomQuote|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...}} | ||
| + | }} | ||
| + | </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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|{{Quotation|'''Kevin Cox''', running out of things to say.|Ummm...}} | |{{Quotation|'''Kevin Cox''', running out of things to say.|Ummm...}} | ||
}} | }} | ||
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| + | === 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 <code>$wgParserCacheExpireTime</code> seconds see [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Parser_Cache this page]] for more info. | ||
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Revision as of 16:40, 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/RandomQuote|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 see [this page] for more info.
