Module:Hatnote: Difference between revisions

Module:Hatnote (edit)

377 bytes removed , 8 years ago

sorry about that; we need to keep findNamespaceId around for other modules

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 	-- are trimmed from the start of the link by default. To skip colon
 	-- trimming, set the removeColon parameter to true.
+	--
+	-- This function is used by other modules, e.g. [[Module:Main]].
 	checkType('findNamespaceId', 1, link, 'string')
 	checkType('findNamespaceId', 2, removeColon, 'boolean', true)
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 function p._formatLink(link, display)
-	-- Find whether we need to use the colon trick or not. We need to use the
-	-- colon trick for categories and files, as otherwise category links
-	-- categorise the page and file links display the file.
 	checkType('_formatLink', 1, link, 'string')
 	checkType('_formatLink', 2, display, 'string', true)
+	-- Remove the initial colon for links where it was specified manually.
 	link = removeInitialColon(link)
-	local namespace = p.findNamespaceId(link, false)
-	local colon = ':'
-	-- The following lines were commented out to allow interwiki links to work,
-	-- as there is no harm in prefixing all links with colons.
-	-- if namespace == 6 or namespace == 14 then
-	-- 	colon = ':'
-	-- else
-	-- 	colon = ''
-	-- end
 	-- Find whether a faux display value has been added with the {{!}} magic
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 	-- Assemble the link.
 	if display then
-		return string.format('[[%s%s|%s]]', colon, link, display)
+		return string.format('[[:%s|%s]]', link, display)
 	else
-		return string.format('[[%s%s]]', colon, link)
+		return string.format('[[:%s]]', link)
 	end
 end