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
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
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
{{Transclude selected recent additions|Europe}}
- ... that Lady with a Fan by Gustav Klimt set a record for the highest price achieved at auction for a work of art in Europe?
- ... that Michael Huber's translation of Salomon Gessner's works into French made Gessner the best-known German-language poet in Europe before Goethe?
- ... that the trial of Neumann and Sass, held in Lithuania in 1934–1935, is said to be the first mass trial of Nazis in Europe?
- ... that the Ottmar Hitzfeld Arena is the highest football pitch in Europe with the competing teams accessing it by cable car?
- ... that filmmaker Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany, has seen the return of many species of bird and plant, as well as pine martens, stoats and otters, to his ancestral lands with rewilding?
- ... that the play-by-mail game Victory! The Battle for Europe takes about three years to play?
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 Mount Churchill, a volcano in Alaska, distributed ash as far as Europe and may have driven migration from Canada to southwestern North America?
- ... that in the 1930s Alfred Verdross, an Austrian international lawyer and future judge of the European Court of Human Rights, sympathised with National Socialism?
- ... that Le langaige du Bresil, one of the earliest documentary sources of any South American language, demonstrates that Europeans and Brazilian indigenous peoples maintained intimate social contacts?
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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