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Module implementing the Wikisource-specific categorisation of years into literary "eras": Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Early modern, Modern, and Future. Its main user-accessible client is {{What era is}}, but the main use is for {{Author}} (through Module:Author) and its automatically added categories (the subcategories of Category:Authors by era).
The named eras represent years as follows:
| Era | Years |
|---|---|
| Ancient | Before 600 |
| Medieval | 601–1420 |
| Renaissance | 1421–1630 |
| Early modern | 1631–1900 |
| Modern | 1901–2024 |
| Future | 2025– |
Use
editFrom template code the function is called with {{#invoke:Era|main}} and the year parameter is extracted from the calling frame (the arguments given to the template). See {{What era is}} for an example. From a wikipage the year can be provided directly in the invocation: {{#invoke:Era|main|1623}} → Renaissance.
From a Lua module there is a simplified (and nominally faster) calling convention that avoids the need for having a frame object or checking the parent frame. After loading the module (local e = require Module:Era) you can call its .era() function with a year as the only parameter: local era = e.era(1623).
However called the return value is always a plain string with no markup or styling.