Gershon: Reliability apparatus: tag rendering, entity box, attributed accounts, sourcing footers

2026-09-05T12:08:03Z

Reliability apparatus: tag rendering, entity box, attributed accounts, sourcing footers

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-- Module:Reliability
--
-- Single source of truth for the wiki's reliability tags.
-- Template:R renders one tag. Template:Legend renders the whole table.
-- Add a tag here and it appears in the legend automatically.

local p = {}

-- Ordered because the legend reads as a scale: what one person swears to,
-- down through what nobody will stand behind.
local order = {
'firsthand', 'astroturf', 'unverified', 'contested', 'leaked',
'defector', 'inherited', 'warning', 'synthetic',
}

local tags = {
firsthand = {
label = 'firsthand',
colour = '#1f4d2e',
meaning = 'Someone claims they were there. Uncorroborated by definition — '
.. 'a seeker who survives an encounter is not thereby a reliable witness to it.',
category = 'Firsthand accounts',
},
astroturf = {
label = 'astroturf',
-- Deliberately close to firsthand's green. That is what astroturf is for:
-- it is built to be mistaken for the real thing at a glance. Read the word.
colour = '#3f7a3f',
meaning = 'A claim that is made to look like many independent people arriving at the '
.. 'same conclusion, and is not. Manufactured human consensus — as distinct from '
.. 'synthetic?, which is text with no person behind it at all.',
category = 'Manufactured consensus',
},
unverified = {
label = 'unverified',
colour = '#3a3a3a',
meaning = 'The default state of everything here. Written down, passed on, never confirmed. '
.. 'Absence of this tag means nothing; assume it.',
category = 'Unverified accounts',
},
contested = {
label = 'contested',
colour = '#6b4310',
meaning = 'Two or more accounts survive and they do not agree. Both are recorded. '
.. 'Do not resolve the contradiction by deleting half of it.',
category = 'Contested accounts',
},
leaked = {
label = 'leaked',
colour = '#4a1f3d',
meaning = 'Taken from a cult, an agency or a private archive by someone without permission. '
.. 'Consider who benefited from you reading it.',
category = 'Leaked material',
},
defector = {
label = 'defector',
colour = '#123f52',
meaning = 'Supplied by a former member of the body it describes. Detailed, bitter, '
.. 'and shaped by the leaving.',
category = 'Defector accounts',
},
inherited = {
label = 'inherited',
colour = '#4a3f22',
meaning = 'Copied from an older tome or an older wiki by hands that did not understand it. '
.. 'Errors here are centuries deep.',
category = 'Inherited material',
},
warning = {
label = '⚠ warning',
colour = '#6b1a1a',
meaning = 'Reading, repeating or attempting this has hurt people. '
.. 'The entry is kept because hiding it has also hurt people.',
category = 'Marked dangerous',
},
synthetic = {
label = 'synthetic?',
colour = '#2f2a5e',
meaning = 'Suspected of having been written by no one. Style without a source behind it. '
.. 'See [[The Pattern]].',
category = 'Suspected synthetic',
},
}

local aliases = {
['synthetic?'] = 'synthetic',
astroturfed = 'astroturf',
manufactured = 'astroturf',
ai = 'synthetic',
warn = 'warning',
unknown = 'unverified',
first = 'firsthand',
}

local function resolve( name )
name = mw.text.trim( ( name or '' ):lower() )
name = aliases[ name ] or name
return tags[ name ] and name or 'unverified'
end

-- The chip itself. TemplateStyles is not installed on this wiki, so the styles
-- are inline on purpose. Colours are dark with light text so they survive
-- whatever skin the reader is using.
local function chip( key, suffix, title )
local t = tags[ key ]
return mw.ustring.format(
'<span class="sp-tag sp-tag-%s" title="%s" style="display:inline-block;'
.. 'font-family:monospace;font-size:0.78em;line-height:1.5;padding:0 6px;'
.. 'border-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap;color:#e8e4dc;background:%s;'
.. 'border:1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.2);">%s%s</span>',
key,
mw.text.encode( title or ( t.meaning:gsub( '%[%[(.-)%]%]', '%1' ) ) ),
t.colour,
t.label,
suffix or ''
)
end

-- {{R|leaked|by=anon|date=1998|note=...}}
function p.tag( frame )
local parent = frame:getParent()
local args = parent and parent.args or frame.args
local key = resolve( args[1] )

local suffix = ''
if args.by and args.by ~= '' then
suffix = suffix .. ' · ' .. args.by
end
if args.date and args.date ~= '' then
suffix = suffix .. ' · ' .. args.date
end

local out = chip( key, suffix, args.note )

-- Only track articles. Templates and help pages demonstrating a tag
-- should not show up as if they were claims.
if mw.title.getCurrentTitle().namespace == 0 then
out = out .. '[[Category:' .. tags[ key ].category .. ']]'
end
return out
end

function p.legend( frame )
local rows = {}
for _, key in ipairs( order ) do
table.insert( rows, mw.ustring.format(
'|-\n| style="padding:6px 10px;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap;" | %s\n'
.. '| style="padding:6px 10px;vertical-align:top;" | %s',
chip( key ), tags[ key ].meaning
) )
end
return '{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;max-width:52em;"\n'
.. '! style="text-align:left;padding:6px 10px;" | Tag\n'
.. '! style="text-align:left;padding:6px 10px;" | What it means when you see it\n'
.. table.concat( rows, '\n' ) .. '\n|}'
end

return p

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