Template:Wales crew/doc

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Please note that this template has a highly complex syntax, and the misplacement of a single character can break it. If you are not familiar with editing templates with parser functions, please do not attempt to edit this template yourself.

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Template:Wales crew/doc allows for the much quicker entry of crew lists for the BBC Wales version of Doctor Who (2005–2022). It is also used for television spinoffs during this period (Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Class), but not for behind-the-scenes shows such as Doctor Who Confidential. It definitely will not work well on story pages from the 1963 version of Doctor Who.

Usage

This template is easiest to use in the Visual Editor mode, which allows you to search for variables and avoid accidentally using invalid names (e.g. AProductionAccountant or AsstProductionAccountant instead of AssistantProductionAccountant). In the Source Editor, follow the example layout shown below.

{{Wales crew
|Writer=Russell T Davies
|Producer=Phil Collinson
|Director=Keith Boak
|LocationManager=Clive Evans (location manager)
 etc...
}}

• Do not put the crew member's name in brackets; this template will automatically link both the job title and the people credited.
• If a crew member shares a name with someone else in the DWU (e.g. Adam Smith), enter the name with disambiguation: Adam Smith (director). The template automatically dabs it away, displaying only their name but still linking to the correct page.
• The order of credits in the generated table is predetermined; variables can be entered in any order without affecting the output.

If you use this template and discover a credit that has no variable, create your own variable name, then please leave a note on the talk page, indicating what variable needs to be added to the template.

To do

• Ultimately, once all the variables are in, the entire second table in this thing has to be collapsed into three paragraphs representing the three columns. They can't have any line breaks between each line; otherwise, "empty" variables will produce a line break. Done.
• The business of auto-truncation of the diambiguated part of a name might be outside the limitations of wikia software, when combined with parser functions. Will look into this some more, but we might have to live with Adam Smith (director) instead of getting Adam Smith

This might be accomplished through use of #tag parser.

Update 07:07, April 17, 2010 (UTC). A solution to this problem has been found, but it will laboriously have to be implemented on every single variable. This is clearly going to be a pain. But it'll get done eventually. So far, it's implemented only on the Director variable, but I'll rather quickly put it in on variables where disambiguated names are already present.

Update 07:20, April 17, 2010 (UTC). Okay, not an entire solution after all. This solution is temporarily causing errors in directors' names that aren't disambiguated. So now, The Eleventh Hour is the only page that works right for directors. So the problem has been inverted. A new solution is forthcoming. However, changes shouldn't be reverted just yet on the CounterTenor variable, as the only person to ever hold that title is a disambiguated name. The solution here is probably just to use another parser to detect the presence of a ( character, and only then to perform the pipetrick.

Update 17:50, April 18, 2010 (UTC). This issue has been fixed, but it's a very particular kind of fix. Using the #replace parser function, the template now looks for the disambiguation (director) at the end of the name and removes it before linking. This works fine, but it means that we have to be careful about how we disambiguate real world names. In order for the same solution to be applied to other variables, real world crew with disambiguated names must be disambiguated in exactly the same way. Thus, if there's a costume person, they must all be disambiguated with (costume). If I could figure out how to just remove everything between parenthesees, that'd be a better solution, but I'm not sure how to do that as yet. Still, as of now, all directors are linking properly.

• Need to put in some variables from Human Nature/Family of Blood/Blink. Done.
• Need to check various pages for correct title of Production Secretary. Is it "Production Secretary", "Script Secretary" or "Production/Script Secretary"? Switch to separate variables was made way too late in the process, on 17:11, April 22, 2010 (UTC).

This is still undone as of 14:10, July 22, 2011 (UTC).

Same goes for "Script Editor" and "Script Editing". 11:21, October 14, 2016 (UTC)