PickiPedia:Firehose demo
A working demonstration of Template:Firehose, which embeds a live list of podcast episodes anywhere on the wiki.
Only a handful of episode pages exist so far — five, created as a pilot — so these lists are short. The point is the mechanism, not the volume.
Everything, newest first
This is what would go on the front page.
{{Firehose|limit=5}}
One show
This is what would go on a podcast's own page, showing its back catalogue.
{{Firehose|show=Grass Talk Radio}}
One person
This is the one that matters. On a musician's page, {{Firehose|guest={{PAGENAME}}}} lists every podcast appearance we know about — the wiki's record of where that person has actually turned up and talked.
{{Firehose|guest=Frank Evans}}
Nothing to show
A firehose with no matching episodes says so rather than rendering an empty box.
{{Firehose|guest=Bill Monroe}}
How it works
Episodes are ordinary wiki pages using Template:PodcastEpisode, which records the podcast, the air date, the episode link and the guests as semantic properties. A firehose is an #ask query over those properties, so anyone can write one — the template is a convenience, not a gatekeeper.
Guest names are linked individually, and a name with no page yet becomes a redlink. Those redlinks are useful: they are a worklist of the people the bluegrass podcast world talks about who do not have a PickiPedia page yet, ranked by how often they come up.