Module:Sandbox/bawolff/Birthday

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local p = {}

local birthdays = mw.ext.data.get( 'EN Wikipedia vital articles birthdays.tab' ).data

function p.getItem()

	-- This randomizes the random number generator. It also decreases cache time of pages.
	math.randomseed( tonumber( mw.getLanguage( "en" ):formatDate( "U" ) ) * 10000 + os.clock() * 10000 )

	-- item is 3 item array, containing article name, birthday, wikidata item.
	local item = birthdays[math.random(#birthdays)]
	return '[[' .. item[1] .. ']] was born on ' .. mw.getLanguage( "en" ):formatDate( "M j.", item[2] )

end

return p