Template:Cronos list/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Cronos list.
It contains usage information, categories, and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Uses Lua:

Module:Cronos

This is the {{Cronos list}} template that automagically generates a list of events.

You can try also the {{Cronos month}} that is very similar but with different rendering.

About

Cronos is a really accessible calendar for MediaWiki. It's wiki-based. It's simple. It works even with JavaScript disabled.

You can customize this calendar for various reasons. For example, you can have it in your user page.

Usage

Basic usage, default calendar with approximately 30 days:

{{Cronos list}}

Here the default look:

When		Event	Where	Category
26/11/2024	10:00	Journée contributive à l'Insee	Europe, France, Île-de-France and Paris	Event
30/11/2024	14:00	Wikipermanence	Europe, France, Brittany and Brest	Event
05/12/2024	09:00	Wikimédia France à l'Open Sour…	Europe and France	Event
07/12/2024	14:00	Atelier Wiki aux Archives de R…	Europe, France, Brittany and Rennes	Event
08/12/2024	10:00	Atelier Wikisource Autrices	Europe, France, Île-de-France and Paris	Event
11/12/2024	19:00	[Wiki'Live] Actualités sur l’organisation de la Wikimania 2026 à Paris	Europe and France	Event
14/12/2024	11:00	Atelier Wikisource Autrices	Europe, France, Île-de-France and Paris	Event
18/12/2024	16:00	Atelier découverte de Wikipédi…	Europe, France, Occitanie and Canet-en-Roussillon	Event

Add Event!

In the following sections all the available options.

Personalization

You can change the text of the blue Add Event! button with:

{{Cronos list|add_button_text = Add Meeting! }}

You can even hide it with:

{{Cronos list|add_button = no }}

Filter by interests

You can choose to display just the events under your interests using the tags argument.

For example, to only show announces about an hackathon or a meetup, you may try:

{{Cronos list|tags = hackathon, meetup }}

If you cannot see anything, maybe there is not any Event associated to that Tag.

It's up to the Event creators to be kind and always put some useful tags to their Event.

Anyway, everyone can contribute to the Event page to add some reasonable Tags.

Next/Previous month

You can display future or past months using the month_shift argument.

Examples:

{{Cronos list|month_shift = -1 }}

{{Cronos list|month_shift =  1 }}

Monday/Sunday preference

As default the calendar starts from Monday, but you may want to disable this behavior to start from Sunday.

Example:

{{Cronos list|start_from_monday = 1 }}

{{Cronos list|start_from_monday = 0 }}

Show more days

You can change how much days (expressed in number of weeks) are displayed in the calendar.

For example:

{{Cronos list|weeks = 10 }}

Please be kind with the environment and do not try to request too much days. A low number will mean that the page generation will be very cheap.

Style

Actually the style is handled by Template:Cronos month/Head/style.css.