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I am very new to mediawiki and ddeveloping with it.

Goal: to create a leader board page that dynamically populates users and there stats.

Leaderboard

{{UserScore

| Username = Timmy

| Score = 100

| Badges = 5

}}

LeaderBoard is showing data like this: 

{{#vardefine: Username|Timmy}} {{#vardefine: Score|100}} {{#vardefine: Badges|5}}

Not sure why or how to display better.

Template:UserScore


<includeonly>{{ #vardefine: Username | {{{Username}}} }}</includeonly>
<includeonly>{{ #vardefine: Score | {{{Score}}} }}</includeonly>
<includeonly>{{ #vardefine: Badges | {{{Badges}}} }}</includeonly>
Solution

  • It looks like you haven't installed the extension Variables.

    But you shouldn't have anyway. Variables were meant to reuse the same data within one page; and even that they can no longer do, due to changes in wiki parsing.

    To display the data, define Template:UserScore like this:

    {| class="infobox"
! Username || {{{Username|{{PAGENAME}}}}}
|-
! Score || {{{Score|0}}}
|-
! Badges || {{{ Badges|}}}
|}

    To query that data from other pages, you might want to install Semantic MediaWiki or Cargo.

    if you have installed Semantic MediaWiki, redefine Template:UserScore like this:

    {| class="infobox"
! Username || {{{Username|{{PAGENAME}}}}} {{#set:Username={{{Username|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}
|-
! Score || {{{Score|0}}} {{#set:Score={{{Score|0}}}}}
|-
! Badges || {{{ Badges|}}} {{#set:Has badge={{{Badges|}}}|+sep=,}}
|}

    Create Property:Username as (some description) {{#set:Has type=Text}}, Property:Score as (some description) {{#set:Has type=Number}} and Property:Has badge as (some description) {{#set:Has type=Page}}.

    Then you can query, e.g. on the page The Sublime Badge of Everlasting Honour:

    The following people have the badge {{PAGENAME}}:
{{#ask: [[Has badge::{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
| ?Username
}}

    The examples I have given are too primitive for production use, but you can make them more complex afterwards.