Module:Sandbox/Evad37/Signpost archives by year

Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Sandbox/Evad37/Signpost archives by year/doc

require('strict')

local p = {}

local startYear = 2005
local endYear
local prefix = "Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/"

p.list = function(frame)
	-- Get current year
	frame = frame or mw.getCurrentFrame() 
	local lang = mw.language.new("en")
	local currentYear = lang:formatDate("Y")
	
	-- Get end year (this year if the page exists, otherwise last year)
	local currentYearTitle = mw.title.new(prefix .. currentYear)
	if currentYearTitle.exists then
		endYear = tonumber(currentYear)
	else
		endYear = tonumber(currentYear) - 1
	end
	
	-- Create a table of links
	local links = {}
	local year = startYear
	while year <= endYear do
		table.insert(links, "[["..prefix..year.."|"..year.."]]")
		year = year + 1
	end
	
	-- Format as wikitext
	local wikitext = table.concat(links, "{{·}}")
	
	-- return after pre-processing
	return frame:preprocess(wikitext)
end

return p