How it works/Advanced use/Magic words & parser functions

Magic words and Parser functions are a way to empower the wiki text (the specific language through which pages of all wikis are written, thus one can also use Visual editor where available) with some programmatic feature, for instance the ability to add the current date to a page (which will update during subsequent access) or to trigger whatever other function available in the wiki on the server side. They are both completely comparable to templates, with the difference that the second ones are always called with a parameter, and that the logics behind them is not placed within a template or module (so that it can be accessed on the wiki) but is coded server side.

Here is a list of the additional magic words provided by our platform (as usual they are prefixed with the string "CI_" to distinguish them easily from other Mediawiki magic words and parser functions)

name	what it does
CI_userAffiliatedTo	shows the organization to which the logged in user is affiliated
CI_userRealName	shows the real name of logged in user (by contrast to the username)
CI_isSysop	returns 1 if the logged in user is an admin ("sysop")
CI_loggedIn	returns 1 if the page's visitor is logged in
CI_visitorIsoCode	returns the iso code of country of the visitor
CI_visitorCountry	returns the country name of the visitor

and parser functions:

name	what it does
CI_editors_realnames	returns the real names from a list of usernames
CI_editors_attribution	returns the string "edited by [real name], affiliated to [organization name]" from an ask query returning editors of a page
CI_noparse_isHTML	prevents Mediawiki from html encoding output

Instructions of use

Magic words

name	return value	example	result
CI_userAffiliatedTo	logged in user affiliation	{{CI_userAffiliatedTo}}
CI_userRealName	logged in user real name	{{CI_userRealName}}
CI_isSysop	whether the logged in user is an administrator or not	{{CI_isSysop}}
CI_loggedIn	whether the user is logged in or not	{{CI_loggedIn}}
CI_visitorIsoCode	country code of user (based on the ip)	{{CI_visitorIsoCode}}	US
CI_visitorCountry	country of user (based on the ip)	{{CI_visitorCountry}}	United States

Parser functions

function	return value	parameter
CI_editors_realnames	comma separated real names	list
CI_editors_attribution	wikicode with links, in the form [[complete path|page name]] followed by a string in the form "created by [editor real name] affiliated to [editor affiliation]	list, delimiter, kind of output (ul or comma separated values)

Examples

CI_editors_attribution

{{#CI_editors_attribution: {{#ask:
[[Category:Reading suggestions]]
|format=array
|?Page creator
|?Creation date
|sep=##
}}|##|ul}}

will create the following list:

• Alì Ehsani - Stanotte guardiamo le stelle - created by , affiliated to [organization]
• Giacomo Scotti, Mario Licciardi - Non si trova cioccolata - created by , affiliated to [organization]
• Raymond Queneau - Fiori Blu - created by , affiliated to [organization]
• Viviano Domenici - A cena con i cannibali. Taccuino di un giornalista esploratore - created by , affiliated to [organization]
• Yambo (Enrico de’ Conti Novelli da Bertinoro) - L'allevatore di dinosauri ovvero L'uovo di pterodattilo - created by , affiliated to [organization]

to be noted that both "Page creator" and "Creation date" properties are required, because the parser function checks the affiliation of the page creator within a given time-frame.

Also, the output produced by the ask query will be a list of page titles separated by the character '##' with the requested properties separated by the '<PROP>' key-word, and the "CI_editors_attribution" parser function will then format it in an unordered list using the same string '##' as divider.

CI_editors_realnames

{{#CI_editors_realnames: {{#ask: 
[[{{PAGENAME}}]] 
|?Page creator
|?Page author
|format=array
|mainlabel=-
|sep=##
}}
}}

will produce the following output:

Likewise as above, the output produced by the ask query, will be a list of usernames separated by the key-word '<MANY>', with properties separated by the '<PROP>' key-word, and the "CI_editors_attribution" parser function will retrieve the related real names and will concatenate them by commas.