Module:About

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Module:About is imported from Module:About on Wikipedia.

This module is imported from the English Wikipedia. Although the visual appearance might be different, the functionality is identical. Please refer to the Wikipedia page for detailed documentation.

This module is unused.

This module is neither invoked by a template nor required/loaded by another module. If this is in error, make sure to add {{Documentation}}/{{No documentation}} to the calling template's or parent's module documentation.

Module:About requires Module:Arguments, Module:Hatnote list, Module:Hatnote, Module:Pagetype, and libraryUtil.

Function list
L 8 — p.about L 16 — p._about

Module:Hatnote implements the {{about}} template.

---

local mArguments --initialize lazily
local mHatnote = require('Module:Hatnote')
local mHatList = require('Module:Hatnote list')
local libraryUtil = require('libraryUtil')
local checkType = libraryUtil.checkType
local p = {}

function p.about (frame)
	-- A passthrough that gets args from the frame and all
	mArguments = require('Module:Arguments')
	args = mArguments.getArgs(frame)
	return p._about(args)
end


function p._about (args, options)
	-- Produces "about" hatnote.

	-- Type checks and defaults
	checkType('_about', 1, args, 'table', true)
	args = args or {}
	checkType('_about', 2, options, 'table', true)
	options = options or {}
	local defaultOptions = {
		aboutForm = 'This %s is about %s. ',
		PageType = require('Module:Pagetype').main(),
		namespace = mw.title.getCurrentTitle().namespace,
		otherText = nil, --included for complete list
		sectionString = 'section'
	}
	for k, v in pairs(defaultOptions) do
		if options[k] == nil then options[k] = v end
	end

	-- Set initial "about" string
	local pageType = (args.section and options.sectionString) or options.PageType
	local about = ''
	if args[1] then
		about = string.format(options.aboutForm, pageType, args[1])
	end
	
	--Allow passing through certain options
	local fsOptions = {
		otherText = options.otherText,
		extratext = args.text
	}
	local hnOptions = {
		selfref = args.selfref,
		icon = 'WikimediaUI-ArticleDisambiguation-ltr.svg'
	}

	-- Set for-see list
	local forSee = mHatList._forSee(args, 2, fsOptions)

	-- Concatenate and return
	return mHatnote._hatnote(about .. forSee, hnOptions)
end

return p