Template:Meetup graticule/Documentation

Edit the documentation (it isn't part of the template page)

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Usage

{{meetup graticule
| map=<map lat="37" lon="-121" date="2005-05-21" />
| lat=37
| lon=-121
| date=2005-05-21
}}

Optional parameters:

| graticule_name=London West
| graticule_link=London West, United Kingdom
| retro=1

This template is design for "meetup pages", pages which name look like "2008-05-21 37 -121". For now, it contains a map, a category links. It may evolve to contain more usefull informations.

Right now, map argument is mandatory, even though the other supplied information should make it redundant.Perhaps the code could be changed to use the other data to construct the map link?

If graticule_link is not provided, graticule_name will be used as link. If neither of them is provided, {{{lat}}},{{{lon}}} will be used, as some graticule pages already have that kind of "redirection page".

The "retro" argument, when set to 1, excludes the meetup page from the Meetup on YYYY-MM-DD category and places it instead in Category:Retro meetup. This is to be used for contexts such as the Origin Geohash.

Comments

Hopefully, the author of this template checks here periodically... There are two things that don't work right with this. First, the graticule_link doesn't product a link when there is a comma in the name (even though the example shows a comma!). If it doesn't change, look at the Melbourne, Florida page for an example. Second, it is very sad that the use of magic words (such as {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}) for the date doesn't work within the <map /> part. Perhaps a special symbol for TODAY could be used for people who would like the map to always show the current location. -- Nurbles 14 Jun 2008

I also wonder if there is a way to not only create the categories Meetup in ... and Meetup on ..., as it does, but to categorise those categories as Meetup by location and Meetup in YEAR-MONTH. It's not too much work to do that manually: once per graticule for the former and once a day for the latter, but it would be cool. -Robyn 19:12, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Such YYYY-MM and YYYY categories are generally unnecessary, as the YYYY-MM-DD categories are subcategories of the former. --Tim P 02:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I know. I wasn't requesting them to be added to the page using the meetup graticule template. I was asking that they be created, such that the do contain their subcategories. As it is, someone (mostly me) categorizes them. -Robyn 17:12, 26 September 2008 (UTC)