RR Wiki Extensions

The RadioReference Wiki has some custom extensions. Many of these can be used to display dynamic data in the database of custom pages of information. They are currently as follows:

Converting from pre-3.0 tags to 3.0 tags

If your article is missing data, or you are editing an old article with frequency or talkgroup information, please see the Wiki Extensions Conversion Guide for the required coding changes

Displaying Conventional Frequencies

You can display conventional frequencies stored in the database with the following tag:

<freqsubcat>xxx</freqsubcat>

Where:

xxx = The Frequency Subcategory ID 

To find the subcat ID, click on the page symbol with the small circle next to it, and the following results:

Displaying Frequencies for a Trunked System

You can display the frequencies for a Trunked Radio System in the database with the following tag:

<site>xxx|sssss</site>

Where:

xxx = The Trunked Radio Database sid number 
sssss  = The system's Unique DB Site ID

To find the "sid" for a trunked system, look in the URL for each trunked system entry:

Determining Trunked System SID

Next to the site number (shown circled on the left) is the site name. If there is more than one site, you must choose which site name you wish to display. In this case, click on simulcast

Finding the site number
Use the Unique DB Site ID as the second value for the tag.

Get the Unique DB Site ID
So in this case, the correct site tag would read:

<site>187|5129</site>

Displaying Talkgroups

You can display the talkgroups for a Trunked Radio System in the database with the following tag:

<tg>xxx|yyyyy</tg>

Where:

xxx = The Trunked Radio Database sid number
yyyyy  = The unique ID that's shown in the 2nd image below

The SID is found using the method above. This is the first value in the tag.
To find the unique ID, go down to the desired talkgroups and point at the page symbol with a small circle next to it. The following display results:

Click on it, and the following image results. Use the Unique ID as the 2nd value in the tag.

In this case, the complete tag would read:

<tg>187|1455</tg>

Displaying Recently Updated Frequencies and Talkgroups

You've submitted changes to the database, they've been entered - why can't I see the changes on the Wiki?

The reason is that you are getting your old page from the Wiki's page cache. What is needed is to clear the cache, so the Wiki is forced to rebuild a new article, and the extensions will pull the updated information. To do this, add the statement ?action=purge to the end of the URL, then press enter.

It's recommended that all articles that use the extensions to pull frequencies and talkgroups add a link at the bottom of the article for this purpose. Using the <small> tag will keep it out of the way of the rest of the details. For example

<small>[http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Andrews_Air_Force_Base%2C_MD?action=purge Refresh] this page from the latest database entry</small>

Displaying EBay Search Results

You can display Ebay search results with the following tag:

<ebay>Your Search Here</ebay>

This extension is helpful for displaying used equipment on many of the equipment pages.