Template:Selected DYK/doc
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This template is designed to be used with the {{Random portal component}} and {{Random portal component with nominate}} templates.
Template layout
{{Selected DYK
| image =
| size =
| caption =
| text = <!--- Required --->
| link =
}}
Usage
It is unnecessary to include braces, quotation marks or other wiki-markup in the template. The |text= field does allow the use of wiki-markup at the contributor's discretion.
- image - Places an image relating to the subject of the article on the left side of the section.
- size - Sets the image size, if left out or left blank it will default to 250px.
- caption - Creates a caption for the image.
- text - is the "Did you know" verbiage. No quotation marks needed.
- link - is the link to the article the subject is referring.
Examples
{{Selected DYK
| image = Modern Charcuterie display.jpg
| size =
| caption =
| text = that '''charcuterie''' is derived ... ?
| link = charcuterie
}}
Will produce:
See also
- Main portal creation templates
- {{Box portal skeleton}} - used to create portal main pages.
- {{Random portal component}} - used on the portal main page to randomly display articles from the portal sub-pages.
- {{Random portal component with nominate}} - used on the portal main page to randomly display articles from the portal sub-pages, adding the option to nominate other Featured foo articles.
- {{Random subpage}} - used on the portal main page to randomly display articles from the portal sub-pages. This template is best used for creating randomly populated Did you know... sections on the portal main page that are intended to include multiple Did you know... facts.
- {{Subpage}}.
- {{Numbered subpages}} - used to create article links on portal sub-pages with 50 links.
- {{25 numbered subpages}} - As hereinbefore, but with 25 links.
- {{75 numbered subpages}} - As hereinbefore, but with 75 links.
- {{100 numbered subpages}} - As hereinbefore, but with 100 links.
- {{Random box-header subpage}}.
- Main portal page formatting templates
- {{Boxheader}}
- {{Box-header}}
- {{Box-header1}}
- {{Box-header2}}
- {{Boxfooter}}
- {{Box-footer}}
- {{Box-footer2}}
- {{Box-Header II}}
- {{Box-header-blank}}
- {{Box-header-groovy}}
- {{Box-header-health}}
- {{Box-header-round}}
- {{Box-header-square}}
- {{Box-header-watch}}
- {{Box-header-plain}}
- Templates that configure links
- {{Browsebar}}
- {{Portals}}
- {{Related portals}}
- {{Related portals2}}
- {{Wikimedia for portals}}
- These templates are used to format the articles on the sub-pages
{{Selected X}} - Generic template for situations not listed below.
- {{Selected article}}
- {{Selected biography}}
- {{Selected business}}
- {{Selected DYK}}
- {{Selected ingredient}}
- {{Selected location}}
- {{Selected quote}}
- {{Selected picture}}
- {{Selected product}}
- {{Selected publication}}
- {{Selected recipe}}
- Related templates