Template talk:Generate POTD row
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The intention of this template is to assist in generating the row version Picture of the Day entries in the Picture of the Day monthly archive which is used for the Main Page.
To use it open the Picture of the Day monthly archive choose the future date of a POTD entry that doesn't exist yet. Follow the edit link for the condensed version of that day's POTD to create an appropriately named blank page. Then populate the page using
- {{subst:Generate POTD row|Image:Imagename.jpg|Image description|UserCredit|Short image title|Long caption|type=...|size=...}}
Parameter list:
- Image filename
- Image description (used for the image's alternate text)
- Image credit
- Short image title (not used on this version of POTD, but allows cut-n-paste when filling out Template:Generate POTD T)
- Long caption
Optional parameters:
- type: The image type. Defaults to "Photo".
- size: The image size. Defaults to 300px.
Note the use of template substitution. You can then use almost same string to populate the text version of the POTD page. Changing the start to
- {{subst:Generate POTD row|...
In practice, you may want to further edit the page generated. In particular, for the condensed version, the Long caption variable is unused so can be left blank.
As a concrete example; here is the string for generating the POTD row for March 31, 2006
- {{subst:Generate POTD row|Image:Alaska wild berries.jpg|Alaskan wild berries|[[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]]|Alaska [[berry|wildberries]]|The wild '''[[berry|berries]]''' in this selection from [[Alaska|Alaska's]] [[Innoko National Wildlife Refuge]] are not ''berries'' in the [[botany|botanical]] sense. The common use of the word ''berry'' refers to...}}
