Help talk:Count format

Just picked up the example from bugzilla using the intro and outro parameter.

{{#ask: [[Property::Value]] 
|format = count
|intro  = Found:   
|outro  =  results:
}}

  is used as space character

null parameter

What do you think about adding some kind of null parameter to count? The ide is that if nothing is found (count=0) the text in the null parameter will be used. It can be helpful in the following scenarios: 1. We want to make count pretty and add some special text in case nothing is found.

{{#ask:[[Category:Scientist]]
|format=count
|null= No one
|outro=found}}

In fact in those cases several parameter would be useful: for 0 and 1 counts.

pre>0found

2. We want to use count in {{#if function}}: in that case it will be null=

Yury Kaktov (talk) 04:03, 5 August 2012 (CEST)

Just in case ...

Available work-around(s):

{{#ifeq:
  {{#ask: [[Property::Value]] | format = count }} | 0 
  | case: Is Zero (just add Zero case pretty print here) 
  | case: Is Not Zero (enclose same #ask-count-code together with additional pretty print)
}}

Or alternatively:

{{#if:
  {{#ask: [[Property::Value]] }}
  | case: Data found == none zero-count (enclose #ask-count-code together with additional pretty print)
  | case: No data found == zero-count (just add Zero case pretty print here) 
}}

_#switch also comes to mind ... but did not checked/tested that one.

If needed one could create a template to take care of the default stuff. So one could use something like this.

{{count_pretty_print
| <#ask-count-call> ... or perhaps just the property input data (speculative/untested).
| <zero pretty print text>
| <None-zero leading pretty print text>
| <None-zero trailing pretty print text>
}}

MvGulik (talk)

Hello,

I'm trying to get the actual number of pages which are in a category with following query :

{{#ask: [[Category:a category]] |format=count}}

Unfortunately, the results includes redirected pages and thus is superior to the right result expected.

How can I exclude redirected pages from this query ?

Thanks,

Nicolas NALLET (Sémantiki)

It seems to work here [0] (unless I have misunderstand the issue).

[0] http://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/CountExample

James Hong Kong (talk)

I have also seen it on one particular query, [0] suggests a patch and it would be great if you could apply/test/verify this before we make an effort to push this into the master branch.

[0] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/1301

James Hong Kong (talk)

Ok thanks MWJames, I'm trying this patch soon and tell you if it's working.

Nicolas NALLET (Sémantiki)

Sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately the patch did'nt fix the problem. I will test with SMW 2.4 when available.

Thanks

Nicolas NALLET (Sémantiki)

Is this still an issue?

[[kgh]] (talk)