Re: [Mediawiki-l] recent deaths on main page

On 04/07/05, Ing. Branislav Gerzo <2ge(a)2ge.us> wrote: I'm guessing that what you want is something a bit like the English Wikipedia's front page [1], which uses template inclusions to automatically change content every day. For instance, if you click the "view source" tab there, you can find this: {{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}}} This includes the contents of a page whose title contains todays month, day and year. The variables available are described at [2] while the template/inclusion mechanism is described at [3] To put today's version of a recent deaths page, you could use something like: {{Project:Recent deaths/{{CURRENTDAY}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTYEAR}}}} Which right now would include text from [[Project:Recent deaths/4-07-2005]]. You can then have a page that displays all the deaths pages by including them specifically by name ("{{Project:Recent deaths/4-07-2005}}", etc) Including the past *3* days is a little trickier, since there are no magic variables for automatically using *yesterday's* date (or the day before's). The best I can think of is manually creating pages like [[Project:Recent deaths/3 days to 4-07-2005]] for every day, to contain the following: {{Project:Recent deaths/2-07-2005}} {{Project:Recent deaths/3-07-2005}} {{Project:Recent deaths/4-07-2005}} This would still have the advantage of letting you set these up ahead of time rather than remembering to swap them around every morning, but it's a lot of work unless you write a bot to do it for you. [=Refs=] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]