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This template uses Lua: |
This templates transcludes "Did you know?" blurbs on specified topics from the monthly subpages of Wikipedia:Recent additions (the Did you know? archives). It is intended for use in the "Did you know" sections of Portals.
Usage[edit]
{{Transclude selected recent additions | <search pattern 1> | ... | <search pattern n> | not1= | ... | notn= | months= | max= | latest= | none= | more= |header= |footer= }}
- Basic
{{Transclude selected recent additions| search pattern }}
- Multiple search patterns
{{Transclude selected recent additions| search pattern | second search pattern | third search pattern }}
- Add as many search patterns as needed
- With patterns to exclude items
{{Transclude selected recent additions| search pattern | not=search pattern to exclude from results }}
- Add additional search patterns to exclude items from results using
|not2=
,|not3=
, etc. - As a portal component which only displays when items are found
{{Transclude selected recent additions| header= header template | footer= footer template | other parameters }}
- As a suggestion generator, e.g. on the portal talk page
{{Transclude selected recent additions| latest=yes | wikitext=yes | other parameters }}
Parameters[edit]
|1=
,|2=
,|3=
...- Search patterns for items
|not1=
,|not2=
,|not3=
...- Search patterns for excluding items
|months=
- Number of months to search through for items (counting backwards from the current date); default is
30
(nb. you may find large numbers equal to several years won't work for technical reasons). |max=
- Maximum number of items to display; default is
6
|latest=
- Set to
yes
to display the most recent items; omit this parameter to display a randomised set of items (with new selections when the page is purged) |wikitext=
- Set to
yes
to display the wikitext of the items, e.g. when using this template just to generate suggestions |none=
- Wikitext to display if no matching items are found; default is "No recent additions"
|more=
- Wikitext to show at the bottom of the list; OR
- Set to
yes
to show More recent additions... link at the bottom of the list |header=
- Wikitext to show above the items; typically
{{Box-header}}
or{{Box-header colour}}
or similar (with appropriate parameters filled in) - If set, this template only displays output when items are found (overriding
|more=
if set) |footer=
- Wikitext to show below the items; defaults to
{{Box-footer}}
- Can only be used in conjunction with
|header=
Search patterns[edit]
Search patterns are Lua patterns, which are similar to regular expressions. This means that ^$()%.[]*+-?
characters have special meaning, such as .
matching any character. To search for those characters themselves, they need to be escaped by prefixing a %
For piped links, both the target article name as well as the displayed text are searched for matches. Images and image captions are not searched for matches.
Tip: To make a letter in a search pattern case-insensitive, put both the upper-case and lowercase letter inside square-brackets, i.e. [Aa]pple
will match both An apple is... and Apples are....
Examples[edit]
Note: to show new selections, if available
Europe
{{Transclude selected recent additions|Europe}}
- ... that Nigeria seeks the return of the Benin Altar Tusks, ivory artefacts taken by the British in 1897 and dispersed in Europe?
- ... that the play-by-mail game Victory! The Battle for Europe takes about three years to play?
- ... that the Canadian government implemented the Peasant Farm Policy to force First Nations farmers to use the methods of European peasants?
- ... that the slave António Corea may have been the first Korean to visit Europe?
- ... that the team developing the action video game Knights Contract researched European folklore on witches and witch hunts?
- ... that an Indian maharajah asked Eugenie Grosup to marry him after she received a deportation notice to leave India and return to Nazi-occupied Europe?
Europe (as portal component that is only displayed when there is news; limited to a maximum of 3 items)
{{Transclude selected recent additions|Europe|header={{Box-header color|Did you know...}}|max=3}}
- ... that the historian and political journalist Lancelot Lawton addressed a House of Commons committee in London in 1935, beginning: "The chief problem in Europe to-day is the Ukrainian problem"?
- ... that to repel migrants, the European Union has paid hundreds of millions of euros to Libyan partners known to be involved in human trafficking, slavery, and torture?
- ... that in 2022 Marios Georgiou became Cyprus's first European champion in gymnastics?
United Kingdom
{{Transclude selected recent additions|United Kingdom}}
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Europe OR United Kingdom
{{Transclude selected recent additions|Europe|United Kingdom}}
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Europe AND United Kingdom
{{Transclude selected recent additions|Europe.*United Kingdom|United Kingdom.*Europe|months=24}}
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No recent additions |
United Kingdom AND NOT Australia
{{Transclude selected recent additions|United Kingdom|not=Australia}}
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SomethingWithNoMatches
{{Transclude selected recent additions|SomethingWithNoMatches|months=2}}
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No recent additions |
United Kingdom – most recent items only (non-randomised)
{{Transclude selected recent additions|United Kingdom|latest=yes|months=24}}
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See also[edit]