Module:CalibrationCycle/doc

Description

This module calculates the status of review cycles based on a given date. It is primarily used to determine whether a page's last review is still current, approaching its deadline, or overdue.

It is designed to work together with Semantic MediaWiki properties (especially Has cycle status and Last reviewed).

Note on this page's own SMW data: This is a Module: namespace page. The same SMW namespace-exclusion issue found on Template:Admin Page Status/doc and Template:GameModule/doc (Template: namespace pages silently not storing `#set` data) likely also applies to Module: namespace pages by default. Until `$smwgNamespacesWithSemanticLinks` is confirmed to include `NS_MODULE`, the Admin Page Status data below may not appear in Special:Browse even though it is correctly stored via Cargo — this is expected, not a new bug.

Available Functions

cycleStatus

Returns the current review status of a page.

Usage

{{#invoke:CalibrationCycle|cycleStatus|review_date|threshold_in_days}}

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
review_date	string	Yes	The date of the last review in YYYY-MM-DD format.
threshold_in_days	number	No	Number of days before a review is considered overdue. Defaults to 90 if not provided.

Return Values

Value	Meaning
Current	Review is still within the acceptable window.
Due Soon	Review is approaching the deadline (within the last 25% of the cycle).
Overdue	Review date has passed the threshold.
Unknown	No valid date was provided.

Examples

{{#invoke:CalibrationCycle|cycleStatus|2026-07-08|90}}

{{#invoke:CalibrationCycle|cycleStatus|2025-01-01}}

daysSince

Returns the number of whole days since the given date.

Usage

{{#invoke:CalibrationCycle|daysSince|review_date}}

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
review_date	string	Yes	Date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Return Values

• Returns the number of days as a string.
• Returns an empty string if the date is invalid or missing.

Example

{{#invoke:CalibrationCycle|daysSince|2026-07-08}}

Usage in Templates

This module is typically called from within another template (such as Template:Admin Page Status) rather than directly on pages.

Example from inside a template:

| Has cycle status = {{#invoke:CalibrationCycle|cycleStatus|{{{review_date|}}}|{{{review_threshold|90}}}}}

Calibration Dependencies

• Template:Admin Page Status/doc

Note: This module was exercised extensively during today's SMW namespace bug investigation, and its own hardening pass (validation and error-handling fixes) was itself a Calibration Report finding — see [[Talk:Module:CalibrationCycle]].

Page Transparency & Calibration

• Calibration Log & Decision Records (via Talk Page) — This page uses Talk-only calibration tracking. Full history of reviews, version changes, calibration decisions, and any governance reasoning behind structural decisions all live on the same Talk page, per Calibration Log: When to Create One and Decision Records: Governance Memory. Not every Calibration Log entry is a Decision Record — scan the Talk page's headings for entries specifically marked as decisions; the link itself being active only confirms this page has calibration history, not that a formal decision was ever recorded.
• View Current Page History — Complete edit history.

This page is under continuous calibration in line with the Permanent Beta principle.

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Public Discussion Welcome

Questions, suggestions, feedback, disagreement, and proposed improvements are welcome on the Talk page.

Light rules:

• Prefer evidence and concrete examples over slogans.
• Apply Diagnostic Inversion Test when criticizing — the same standard to this page that you would apply elsewhere.
• Distinguish observation from conclusion.
• Calibration entries and Decision Records are maintenance records; public discussion belongs in ordinary Talk threads.
• This framework remains in Permanent Beta. Better calibration is always in scope.

Calibration References

This page is calibrated against the following core standards and reference materials:

• The Sovereign Games Framework — Overall framework philosophy and operating principles
• Permanent Beta — Core maintenance and continuous improvement standard
• Reference Standards — Principles for traceable, confirmed standards
• Calibrating Conceptual Instruments — Methodology for evaluating and refining pages
• Civilizational Traceability Hierarchy — How standards should connect to reality across levels
• Diagnostic Inversion Test — Mandatory self-application standard
• Reality Game — Foundational reality-alignment tool
• Reality Override Game — Standing discipline against protecting an existing model rather than updating it
• Observable Behavior Rule — Standing principle that diagnostics evaluate observable actions, mechanisms, and consequences, not internal motive, belief, or intent
• One-Way Nature of the Sovereign Games — Anti-capture design principles
• The Royal Cubit Civilization (Strategy) — Long-term civilizational vision and metrology metaphor
• Conceptual Instruments — Overall direction and metrology metaphor
• Breadcrumb Philosophy — Standing discipline for making unresolved questions and provisional decisions explicit
• Calibration Dependencies: Standards and Process — Rule that visible and hidden dependency lists must match, and that dependencies describe genuine reliance

Calibration Dependent

Pages that list this page as a load-bearing dependency: None found. Either nothing currently depends on this page, or no dependent page has yet listed it in their `depends_on` field.

If this page is edited substantively, review the list above per the Ripple Review rule — see Calibration Dependencies: Standards and Process#Rule: Core-Priority Changes Trigger Mandatory Ripple Review.

Calibration Dependencies

Pages this page relies on as load-bearing dependencies: Template:Admin Page Status/doc If incorrect, edit the `depends_on` field in Admin Page Status — do not edit this section directly, it is auto-generated.

Page Reference

Title	Module:CalibrationCycle/doc
URL	https://www.thesovereigngames.com/wiki/Module:CalibrationCycle/doc
Description	Documentation for the CalibrationCycle Lua module. Calculates review cycle status (Current, Due Soon, Overdue) based on last review date and threshold.
Category	Meta & Framework