Template:Transclude selected recent additions/sandbox
 | __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__This is the template sandbox page for Template:Transclude selected recent additions (diff). See also the companion subpage for test cases. |
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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
{{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
|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
yesto 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
yesto 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
yesto 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
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
Note: to show new selections, if available
Europe <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">Lua error in Module:Selected_recent_additions at line 69: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil).</syntaxhighlight> Lua error in Module:Selected_recent_additions at line 69: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil).
Europe (as portal component that is only displayed when there is news; limited to a maximum of 3 items) <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">Lua error in Module:Selected_recent_additions at line 69: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil).</syntaxhighlight> Lua error in Module:Selected_recent_additions at line 69: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil).
United Kingdom
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">Lua error in Module:Selected_recent_additions at line 69: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil).</syntaxhighlight>
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Europe OR United Kingdom
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">Lua error in Module:Selected_recent_additions at line 69: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil).</syntaxhighlight>
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Europe AND United Kingdom
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">Lua error in Module:Selected_recent_additions at line 69: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil).</syntaxhighlight>
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United Kingdom AND NOT Australia
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">Lua error in Module:Selected_recent_additions at line 69: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil).</syntaxhighlight>
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SomethingWithNoMatches
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">Lua error in Module:Selected_recent_additions at line 69: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil).</syntaxhighlight>
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United Kingdom – most recent items only (non-randomised)
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">Lua error in Module:Selected_recent_additions at line 69: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil).</syntaxhighlight>
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