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localp={}p.upper=function(frame)locals=mw.text.trim(frame.args[1]or"")returnstring.upper(s)endp.lower=function(frame)locals=mw.text.trim(frame.args[1]or"")returnstring.lower(s)endp.sentence=function(frame)frame.args[1]=string.lower(frame.args[1])returnp.ucfirst(frame)endp.ucfirst=function(frame)locals=mw.text.trim(frame.args[1]or"")locals1=""-- if it's a list chop off and (store as s1) everything up to the first <li>locallipos=string.find(s,"<li>")ifliposthens1=string.sub(s,1,lipos+3)s=string.sub(s,lipos+4)end-- s1 is either "" or the first part of the list markup, so we can continue-- and prepend s1 to the returned stringifstring.find(s,"^%[%[[^|]+|[^%]]+%]%]")then-- this is a piped wikilink, so we capitalise the text, not the pipelocalb,c=string.find(s,"|%A*%a")-- find the first letter after the pipereturns1..string.sub(s,1,c-1)..string.upper(string.sub(s,c,c))..string.sub(s,c+1)endlocalletterpos=string.find(s,'%a')ifletterposthenlocalfirst=string.sub(s,1,letterpos-1)localletter=string.sub(s,letterpos,letterpos)localrest=string.sub(s,letterpos+1)returns1..first..string.upper(letter)..restelsereturns1..sendendp.title=function(frame)-- http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/capitalization/rules-for-capitalization-in-titles.html-- recommended by The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual:-- "Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents,-- except a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, or, and nor."localalwayslower={['a']=1,['an']=1,['the']=1,['and']=1,['but']=1,['or']=1,['for']=1,['nor']=1,['on']=1,['in']=1,['at']=1,['to']=1,['from']=1,['by']=1,['of']=1,['up']=1}localres=''locals=mw.text.trim(frame.args[1]or"")localwords=mw.text.split(s," ")fori,sinipairs(words)dos=string.lower(s)if(i>1andalwayslower[s]==1)then-- leave in lowercaseelses=mw.getContentLanguage():ucfirst(s)endwords[i]=sendreturntable.concat(words," ")end-- Capitalizing only first letter for fetched Wikidata labels.-- Wikidata English labels generally begin with a lowercase letter. [[:d:Help:Label#Capitalization]]p.label=p.ucfirst-- stripZeros finds the first number and strips leading zeros (apart from units)-- e.g "0940" -> "940"; "Year: 0023" -> "Year: 23"; "00.12" -> "0.12"p.stripZeros=function(frame)locals=mw.text.trim(frame.args[1]or"")n=tonumber(string.match(s,"%d+"))or""s=string.gsub(s,"%d+",n,1)returnsend-- nowiki ensures that a string of text is treated by the MediaWiki software as just a string-- it takes an unnamed parameter and trims whitespace, then removes any wikicodep.nowiki=function(frame)localstr=mw.text.trim(frame.args[1]or"")returnmw.text.nowiki(str)endreturnp