Template:UI/global community

"Join a growing global community" main-page section. Two-column layout: stats + action buttons on the left, world map of community members on the right. Stacks single-column on narrow viewports.

Renders, top to bottom:

Section heading — <h2> "Join a growing global

 community" by default. Set heading= to override, or pass
 an empty string to suppress.

Two-column grid
- Side column (left)
  - Stats row — three plain icon+number+label units (no card

   chrome, no links) in a 3-column grid. Each button below aligns
   directly under the stat in the same grid column.

- - - Members (users icon) —

    45. Counts all registered wiki
    accounts (the magic-word total, not just members with a
    Community-member profile page).

- - - Discussions (message-square icon) —

    #ask count of forum posts under the public root
    forum, scoped via
    . Same
    subtree-scoping idiom as
    Template:UI/recent_discussions_feed — keeps private
    workshop-forum posts out of the public count.

- - - Publications (book icon) — #ask

    count of pages in Category:Publication. The
    Publication category is expected to be synced in from a sister
    wiki; the query carries default=0 so the stat
    renders 0 until that lands.

- - Button bar — three columns aligned with the stats above:

   column 1 is login-state-conditional (Create an account for anons,
   Your community profile for logged-in users), column 2 is Join
   the discussion, column 3 is Explore publications (links to the
   wiki's curated Publications page so visitors can land on the
   same content the stat is counting).

- - Subscribe footer — a small "Stay in the loop — Subscribe

   to our mailing list →" caption rendered beneath the button bar
   when subscribe_url= is set, hidden otherwise. Demoted
   from a primary button because subscribing is a recurring CTA
   rather than a one-shot conversion: the visual weight competes with
   the membership and discussion buttons, but losing the affordance
   entirely cuts a working channel for staying in touch.

- Map (right) — format=map over

   The following coordinate was not recognized: +..
  Sits at its natural height so the empty-state doesn't stretch to
  fill the side column.

Map params: kept deliberately minimal

The first cut of this template carried mainlabel=-, service=leaflet, width=100%, and markercluster=on bundled together. On the deployed wiki the map then silently fell through to default= ("No community members on the map yet.") even though the same selector worked in format=table. Stripped back to the minimum, then re-added params one at a time so any future regression isolates to a single line.

Currently in use: ?Has geographic location + format=map + height + zoom + markercluster=on. markercluster=on was re-introduced in isolation and confirmed working on miniscope.org; it buys both zoom-out clustering and spiderfy-on-click at max zoom, which is how multiple members at the same coordinate become individually clickable. Other previously-stripped params (mainlabel=-, service=leaflet, width=100%) stay out until someone needs them and validates them the same way.

Map privacy posture

Popups currently show the linked page title (the member's User: page) because we dropped mainlabel=- to get the map rendering at all. On a permission-restricted wiki like miniscope.org, anon clicks on those links hit a login wall, so the link target stays private — but the popup title (the username) is visible.

If you need stricter privacy (visible dots, no name in the popup), the right move is a template= override that renders generic marker content. Out of scope for this template until we verify the basic map render is stable.

Anon vs logged-in button gating

Same idiom as Template:UI/hero and the workshop status block: buttons wrapped in <span class="hero-btn-anon"> only show for anonymous viewers; those in <span class="hero-btn-user"> only for logged-in viewers. Relies on Tweeki's body.tweeki-user-anon body class and the visibility CSS that lives in MediaWiki:Common.css (documented as a hard dep by UI/hero).

Discussions and Explore-publications buttons are unguarded and appear regardless of login state. The CTA progression reads:

anon: Create an account (primary) → Join the discussion →

 Explore publications

logged-in: Your community profile (primary) → Join the

 discussion → Explore publications

The mailing-list subscribe link sits below the button row as a small caption (see "Subscribe footer" above), unguarded by login state.

Why Special:MyPage for "Your community profile"

The button links to Special:MyPage, which 302-redirects each viewer to their own User:<username> page. This is the MW-canonical way to express "this viewer's user page" in a static link: MediaWiki has no parse-time magic word for the current viewer's username (by design, since parser output is cached and shared across viewers).

For a brand-new account whose User page doesn't exist yet, Page Forms' namespace-level form association renders a "Create your community profile" landing with a button that opens the form. Existing users see their profile page with the usual "Edit with form" affordance.

We deliberately do not deep-link to ?action=formedit&form=…: action=formedit derives the form from the page's categories, not from URL params, so the form= hint is silently ignored on nonexistent pages and the user gets dropped onto a form-picker. Plain Special:MyPage lets PF's namespace association do the right thing for both new and existing users.

Params (all optional)

heading — section heading (default: "Join a growing

 global community"). Empty string suppresses the <h2>.

discussion_root — full title of the public forum

 subtree root (default: Forum:Home). Used both as the
 count's Has parent forum filter and as the
 "Join the discussion" link target.

publication_category — bare category name, no

 Category: prefix (default: Publication).

signup_page — destination for anon "Create an account"

 button (default: Special:RequestAccount; override to
 Special:CreateAccount on wikis without ConfirmAccount).

profile_page — destination for the logged-in profile

 button (default: Special:MyPage; see the section above
 for the redirect mechanics).

publications_page — destination for the Explore-

 publications button (default: Publications). Set this
 to whatever page on the host wiki renders the
 UI/publications_library view.

subscribe_url — external mailing-list signup URL. When

 empty, the subscribe footer link is hidden.

subscribe_prefix — short caption preceding the

 subscribe link (default: Stay in the loop —). Pass an
 empty value to suppress the lead-in.

signup_label / profile_label /

 discussion_label / explore_label /
 subscribe_label — button / link labels. The subscribe
 label defaults to Subscribe to our mailing list.

members_label / discussions_label /

 publications_label — stat-label overrides (defaults:
 "Members", "Discussions", "Publications"). Stay generic by default
 so the template can serve any wiki; per-wiki specifics
 (e.g. publications_label=Publications using Miniscopes
 for miniscope.org) belong in the Main Page invocation.

map_height — CSS height for the map container

 (default: 360px).

map_zoom — initial Leaflet zoom level

 (default: 1, world view).

Cross-template dependencies

Template:UI/icon — one per stat (users,

 message-square, book).

Template:UI/button — every action button.
Map rendering: relies on the Maps extension being installed with the

 Leaflet service available (true on miniscope.org per the
 has_input_type=leaflet setting on
 Has geographic location).