Module:Month translator/data

local langs = {'ca', 'de', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'it', 'pl', 'pt', 'sv'};

local en_months = {'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'};

local patterns = {
	{'^(%d%d?) +(%a+) +(%d%d%d%d%a?)$', 'd', 'm', 'y', 'dmy'},					-- dd Mmm yyyy
	{'^(%d%d?) +de +(%a+) +de +(%d%d%d%d%a?)$', 'd', 'm', 'y', 'dmy'},			-- dd de Mmm de yyyy
	{'^(%a+) +(%d%d%d%d%a?)$', 'm', 'y', nil, 'my'},							-- Mmm yyyy
	{'^(%a+) +de +(%d%d%d%d%a?)$', 'm', 'y', nil, 'my'},						-- Mmm de yyyy
	};


--[[--------------------------< O V E R R I D E _ N A M E S >--------------------------------------------------

table of non-English month names that are valid but are not in the list of names taken from MediaWiki with 
month_names_get().  Items in this list have the form:
	['<non-English month name>'] = 'English month name',
]]

local override_names = {
	[''] = '',
	}

--[[--------------------------< M O N T H _ N A M E S _ G E T >------------------------------------------------

creates a translation table of non-English month names listed in lang{} mapped to English month names listed in
en_months{}.  

]]

local function month_names_get ()
	local month_names = {};

	for _, lang in ipairs (langs) do											-- spin through the languages table
		local lang_obj = mw.getLanguage (lang);									-- make a language object for the current language
		for i, en_month in ipairs (en_months) do								-- spin through the English month-names table
			month_names[lang_obj:formatDate('F', en_month):lower()] = en_month;	-- translate the English name to the current language and store in the translations table
			if 'pl' == lang then												-- for polish and other languages that have nominative and genitive forms
				month_names[lang_obj:formatDate('xg', en_month):lower()] = en_month;	-- translate English to genitive form and save
			end
		end
	end
	return month_names;
end


--[[--------------------------< E X P O R T E D   T A B L E S >------------------------------------------------
]]

return {
	month_names = month_names_get (),
	override_names = override_names,
	patterns = patterns,
	}