Help:Year Upping

Introduction

Year Upping is a regular problem on the wiki. Most student pages want to refer to their year or form, but this information changes every year, so our gnomes and helpers have to go and edit every page to keep everyone up to date at the beginning of September. This is the problem the year upping project hopes to resolve - preferably in a simple, user-friendly way.

This project is still under development and will probably be going live this September, so any comments, praise, criticisms or suggestions would be very helpful (post on the discussions page or by email:

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Caveats

• These commands are subject to change as they are only proposals at this stage.
• Your intake year may not have been added yet, if this is the case then you'll need to either wait for them to come online or add them yourself (Template:Intake YYYY and Template:Year YYYY, following the output specification below and using Template:Year 2005 as an example).

Commands

{{Year 2005}}

Output, for example, Year 7 or Lower Sixth.

To use the template in a page:

• You type in edit:

'''Max Morris''' is currently tipped to be the next BRGS [[headmaster]] and is currently in {{Year 2005}}.

• Appearance:

Max Morris is currently tipped to be the next BRGS headmaster and is currently in Year 12.

The template will output one of the following, where relevant:

• Year 7-11
• Lower Sixth
• Upper Sixth
• the intake of YYYY (e.g. YYYY=2001)

{{Form|2005|S}}

Outputs the form of the person, e.g. 8R, 13CRV. The parameters being the intake year and the form lettering.

To use the template in a page:

• You type in edit:

'''Max Morris''' is currently tipped to be the next BRGS [[headmaster]] and is currently in the form {{Form|2005|R}}.

• Appearance:

Max Morris is currently tipped to be the next BRGS headmaster and is currently in the form 12R.

{{SYF|Year|Form Letter|Surname, Forename}}

SYF is the acronym for Student, Year and Form. Adding this to a page automatically adds the person onto the necessary category lists, which are kept up-to-date every year.

To use the template in a page:

• You type in edit:

{{SYF|2005|R|Morris, Max}}
'''Max Morris''' is currently tipped to be the next BRGS [[headmaster]].

{{FYF|Year|Form Letter}}

FYF is the acronym for Form: Year and Form. Experimental feature.

To use the template in a page:

• You type in edit:

{{SYF|2005|R|Morris, Max}}
'''Max Morris''' is currently tipped to be the next BRGS [[headmaster]].

{{Intake 2005}}

This just outputs the year number or YY/, e.g. 99/, 05/, if it's outside the range 7-13. This is used in the other templates behind-the-scenes.

Further Development

Currently, some forms have their own pages which will still need to be transferred manually. Command names are subject to change based on feedback, so don't start using these on a site wide scale yet.