----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_20... If I edit that page I see the code below (among lots of other code) {{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 1, 2006}} <br clear="all">
The {{ }} includes the article inside the double braces. [[ ]] makes a link, {{ }} does an inclusion.
I familiar enough with MediaWiki to readlize that :-)
Where do the inclusions come from, how does one schedule featured articles to appear? Etc... I tried tracing templates but couldn't find the right ones.
Mike O
On 04/10/06, Mike O mikeo@operamail.com wrote:
From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_20... If I edit that page I see the code below (among lots of other code) {{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 1, 2006}} <br clear="all">
The {{ }} includes the article inside the double braces. [[ ]] makes a link, {{ }} does an inclusion.
I familiar enough with MediaWiki to readlize that :-) Where do the inclusions come from, how does one schedule featured articles to appear? Etc... I tried tracing templates but couldn't find the right ones.
User:Raul654 picks the front page feature and writes an intro text, which ideally is the intro section of the article, and a pic and puts them into that day's template, with about a week's worth created ahead of time. The template is then included in the front page using a date variable as part of the name of the template being called, which picks up the pre-populated template for that day.
- d.
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