Template:Recurring event
Recurring event
Template for the things that happen every week whether or not anyone books them: jams, song circles, open mics, dances, residencies, showcases.
A recurring event is not a show. A show happens once and then it is history; a recurring event is a standing invitation, and the useful fact about it is not what happened last Thursday but that there is a Thursday. That is why this template records a weekday and a time of day rather than a date, and why the page it builds stays true for years at a stretch.
Use Template:Jam for jams — it is this template with the type filled in.
Usage
{{Recurring event
|type=Jam
|venue=The Gaslight Dining Saloon
|city=Rockerville
|state=South Dakota
|scene=Black Hills
|weekday=Thursday
|start=18:30
|end=20:30
|recurrence=Weekly
|genre=Bluegrass
|genre2=Country
|host=Some Picker
|admission=Free
|established=1994
|image=Example.jpg
|website=https://example.com
}}
Naming
Some recurring events have a name of their own — Witchgrass Wednesdays — and that name is the page title. Most have no name at all. An unnamed one takes the form <Weekday> jam at <Venue>: [[Thursday jam at The Gaslight Dining Saloon]]. Predictable enough that an import bot can generate it and a reader can guess it, and it does not put a name on a jam that nobody in the room uses.
Leave name unset in that case; the infobox falls back to the page title.
Parameters
None are required, but an event with no weekday and no venue is not yet worth a page.
- name - Event name. Defaults to the page title.
- type - Jam, Song circle, Open mic, Dance, Concert series, Residency, Workshop. Singular. Drives Has event type and the category.
- venue - The venue's page title. Becomes a link and a Has venue annotation; a venue with no page yet becomes a redlink, which is the invitation to write it.
- location - Free text, for an event with no venue page — a fire hall, a parking lot, somebody's front room.
- city, state, scene - Fill these in even when the venue page carries them too. Template:Recurring events filters on the event's own annotations, so an event that leaves them off will not appear in its own scene's listings.
- weekday - Spelled out and singular: Thursday. The template renders it plural and derives Has weekday number from it for sorting.
- start, end - Times. Give them in 24-hour form (18:30) — they are stored that way so they sort, and displayed as 6:30 pm. A 12-hour value is accepted and normalised.
- recurrence - Weekly, Every other week, First Saturday of the month. Defaults to Weekly.
- genre through genre3 - What actually gets played.
- host through host3 - Who runs it: the person who calls the tunes, the band that anchors it, the club that books it.
- admission - Free, $5, Free to players.
- established - Year it started, four digits.
- image - Photo, without the File: prefix. Commons files work — this wiki reads Commons directly.
- caption - Caption for the image.
- website, calendar - Official page, and wherever the schedule actually gets posted.
- description - A sentence rendered under the infobox.
Notes
Times are local to the venue and always have been. A jam does not move when the reader does, and storing an offset would only invite someone to convert it.
The weekday is stored twice on purpose: once as a word for a reader, once as a number for a sort. A listings query that sorts on the word puts Friday at the top of the week.
Two facts here are softer than they look, and both are worth writing prose about rather than trusting to the infobox. The end time is a statement of intent — a jam ends when the last tune ends. And the start time on the sign is frequently not the start time in the room; if the sign says 6:30 and the first break happens at 7, say so on the page.
To list these events somewhere — on a venue page, a scene page, a front page — use Template:Recurring events, which is the query side of the same schema.
