Module:Protection banner/doc

This module creates protection banners and padlock icons that are placed at the top of protected pages.

Usage
Most users will not need to use this module directly. For adding protection templates to articles you can use the pp template, or you may find it more convenient to use one of the more specific protection templates in the table below.

From wikitext
&#123;{#invoke:Protection banner|main | 1       = reason | small   = yes/no | action  = action | expiry  = expiry | date    = protection date | user    = username | section = talk page section name | category = no }&#125;

The #invoke syntax can be used for creating protection templates more specific than pp. For example, it is possible to create a protection template which always shows a padlock icon by using the code. Pages which call this template will still be able to use other arguments, like action and expiry. However, this only works one level deep; a page calling a template which calls another template containing the above code will not automatically be able to use parameters like action and expiry.

From Lua
First, load the module.

Then you can make protection banners by using the _main function.

args is an table of arguments to pass to the module. For possible keys and values for this table, see the parameters section. The cfg and titleObj variables are intended only for testing; cfg specifies a customised config table to use instead of Module:Protection banner/config, and titleObj specifies a mw.title object to use instead of the current title. args, cfg and titleObj are all optional.

Parameters
All parameters are optional.


 * 1 - the reason that the page was protected. If set, this must be one of the values listed in the reasons table.
 * small - if set to "yes", "y", "1", or "true", a padlock icon is generated instead of a full protection banner.
 * action - the protection action. Must be one of "edit" (for normal protection), "move" (for move-protection) or "autoreview" (for pending changes). The default value is "edit".
 * expiry - the expiry date of the protection. This can be a date (for temporary protection), or one of the strings "indef", "indefinite", "indefinitely", or "infinite" (for indefinite protection). If this is a date, it must be valid input to the second parameter of the #time parser function.
 * date - the protection date. This must be valid input to the second parameter of the #time parser function. This argument has an effect for reasons that use the PROTECTIONDATE parameter in their configuration. As of July 2014, those were the "office" and "reset" reasons.
 * user - the username of the user to generate links for. As of July 2014, this only has an effect when the "usertalk" reason is specified.
 * section - the section name of the protected page's talk page where discussion is taking place. This works for most, but not all, values of reason.
 * category - categories are suppressed if this is set to "no", "n", "0", or "false".

Reasons
The following table contains the available reasons, plus the actions for which they are available.

Technical details
This module uses configuration data from Module:Protection banner/config. Most of the module's behaviour can be configured there, making it easily portable across different wikis and different languages.

General test cases for the module can be found at Module:Protection banner/testcases, and test cases specific to enwiki's config can be found at Module:Protection banner/config/testcases.

Bug reports and feature requests should be made on the module's talk page.