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::Please can you explain what you mean by "be passed the list of args, and return a modified list of args", preferably with an example? &mdash;&nbsp;Martin <small>([[User:MSGJ|MSGJ]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[User talk:MSGJ|talk]])</small> 09:23, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

:::Absolutely. If you took a look at my hokey lua module, you might see what I mean. But something like:

:::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitextlua">

::: if(args["ProjectArgs"]=="Higher Education") then

::: args=HigherEducationArgParser(args)

::: end

:::</syntaxhighlight>

:::or, even better (if possible)

:::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitextlua">

::: if(args["ProjectArgs"]!=nil) then

::: args=_G[args["ProjectArgs"]](args) -- or some other way to define the function name in the template

::: end

:::</syntaxhighlight>

:::placed somewhere appropriate in Wikiproject_banner, and written a bit more maintainably...

:::called like this:

:::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

:::{{#invoke:WikiProject banner|main|ProjectArgs=HigherEducationArgParser}}

:::</syntaxhighlight>

:::If you wanted, this could be collapsed into how you were calling it:

:::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

:::{{#invoke:WikiProject banner|main|project=Higher Education}}

:::</syntaxhighlight>

:::and the pseudocode might look like:

:::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

::: local ProjectFunc=string.gsub(args["project"]," ","_") .. "_Argument_Function"

::: if(ProjectFunc]!=nil) then

::: args=_G[ProjectFunc](args) -- not sure this works in our framework

::: end

:::</syntaxhighlight>

:::Apologies if there are errors, I never saw a line of lua until a few weeks ago, but I'd love to help in any way I can. Does this help explain what I mean? [[User:Tduk|Tduk]] ([[User talk:Tduk|talk]]) 13:51, 18 June 2025 (UTC)