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Recipedius is a sandbox exploration of a twenty-year-old idea: Wikipedia, but for recipes, where every ingredient is a record that recipes link to instead of a word they retype.

This wiki is the second prototype. The first was a single-page mock-up; this one runs on MediaWiki with the Cargo, Scribunto and Page Forms extensions, because most of what the idea needs already exists here: revision history, attribution, talk pages, upload licensing, categories, and structured data with queries.

== How the pieces fit ==
; Ingredient layer
: [[Template:Ingredient]] is the record: form, role, storage, season, allergens, price, grams per unit, kcal per 100 g. It stores to the <code>Ingredients</code> table.
; Recipe layer
: [[Template:Recipe]] takes ingredient lines (<code>Ingredient; quantity; unit; role; preparation</code>) and hands them to [[Module:Recipedius]], which computes calories and allergens from the records, resolves substitutions for each line's role, renders the page, and stores rows to <code>Recipes</code> and <code>RecipeIngredients</code>.
; Substitution layer
: [[Template:Substitution]] rows live on the page of the ingredient being replaced. A blank-role row applies everywhere; a role row overrides it. <code>applicable=no</code> removes an option for a role.
; Commerce layer
: [[Template:SaleItem]] rows on a <code>Sale/Store</code> page. [[This week's sale]] joins them to recipe ingredients and ranks recipes, excluding pantry staples.
; Collection layer
: [[Template:Cookbook]] renders a book from the database with a print stylesheet. Print-on-demand is the next step (the Collection extension, or a PDF export to a printer).
; Contribution layer
: MediaWiki itself: every edit has a history and an author, every upload carries a license, and moderation extensions (FlaggedRevs, Moderation, AbuseFilter) bolt on when needed.

== What's illustrative ==
Nutrition values are USDA-style approximations entered by hand, not licensed data. Prices, the store, contributor names and the sample cookbook are examples. Nothing here is dietary advice.

== Where to dig ==
* [[Special:CargoTables]] shows every table and its rows.
* [[Special:Drilldown]] filters recipes and ingredients by any field.
* [[Special:Version]] lists the extensions in use.

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