Syntax

5892

This template uses Lua:

Module:Signpost (sandbox)

Templates like this: {{Signpost/Number of articles}} · {{Signpost/Number of issues}} · {{Signpost/Number of pages}} · {{Signpost/Number of nontalk pages}} · {{Signpost/Number of talk pages}} · {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count}}

This template returns the count of Signpost articles that fit certain criteria.

Syntax

All articles

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count}}

Articles for a single page (will be either 1 or 0)

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count|page=page}}

Articles for a specific date

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count|date=date}}

Articles by a specific author

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count|author=username}}

Articles filtered by tag and by date

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count
| tags      = tags, comma-separated
| tagmatch  = "any" or "all"
| startdate = start date
| enddate   = end date
}}

Parameters

page - If you use this parameter, only the specified page will be outputted.
date - If you use this parameter, only articles for the specified date will be outputted.
tags - Use this parameter to filter the articles by tag. You can specify an unlimited number of tags, separated by commas.
tagmatch - If this is set to "all", then only articles that match all the tags specified in tags will be outputted. Otherwise, articles matching any of the tags will be outputted.
startdate - Don't output any articles before this date.
enddate - Don't output any articles later than this date.
author - Only output articles by this author. This should be the username of the author, without the "User:" prefix (e.g. JPxG).

Examples

Code	Result
`{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count}}`	5892
`{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count\|page=Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-03-25/News and notes}}`	1
`{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count\|date=25 March 2015}}`	7
`{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count\|author=Kudpung}}`	53
`{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count\|tags=wikimania}}`	120
`{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count\|tags=wikimania, jimbo}}`	255
`{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count\|tags=wikimania, jimbo\|tagmatch=all}}`	8
`{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count\|tags=wikimania, jimbo\|tagmatch=all\|startdate=1 January 2010\|enddate=31 December 2012}}`	2

The above documentation is transcluded from Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article count/doc.