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You just transclude this on the talk page for the single issue. See Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2022-11-28 for an example.

The entire source code for one of these talk pages should just be:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Single talk}}</syntaxhighlight>

Technical notes

Similar to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Issue pageviews (which is itself transcluded at the end busted because graphs don't work).

The core of this is Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article list maker, which uses Module:Signpost to fetch article lists from indices.

These indices are at places like Module:Signpost/index/2022. These indices are (as of December 2022) populated by User:Mr._Stradivarius/gadgets/SignpostTagger.

Another task of the article list maker is to apply custom formatting to the entries it gets, which it does here according to the template at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article list maker/Comment section.

Old way

One thing to note is that this template (Single talk) uses kind of an ugly hack to get the date out of the page name: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>es/Single </syntaxhighlight>. Essentially, it gets "2022-11-28" as a substring of <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Single talk</syntaxhighlight>, like this: Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2022-11-28 111111111122222222223333333 123456789012345678901234567890123456 ^ ^ This means that it will only work right on pages whose titles follow the exact format of "Wikipedia Signpost/Single/YYYY-MM-DD". This shouldn't be a problem, but it could become one, and I want you to know about this if it starts breaking for no reason. Update: I fixed it, due to being a genius.

It uses magic words, namely titleparts, to do this in a smart way: <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>Single talk</syntaxhighlight>

Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2022-11-28
               1                  2      3
               ^                  ^      ^

Meta and obscure

You can force this to use a specific page as the transclusion target by supplying the param FULLPAGENAME (which the template will use in place of the magic word).

Sample transclusion

2010-01-04 (Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2010-01-04)
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Single talk|FULLPAGENAME=Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2010-01-04}}

2017-10-23 (Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2017-10-23)
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Single talk|FULLPAGENAME=Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2017-10-23}}

The above documentation is transcluded from English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Single talk/doc. (edit | history)