Difference between revisions of "Template:Portal description"

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test>RL0919
(trying to make standard text a little shorter for the 'short description')
test>SMcCandlish
(allow people to override the pagename, for disambiguation, clarity, etc.)
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<includeonly>{{Short description|Wikipedia's portal for exploring content related to {{PAGENAME}}}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{Documentation}}</noinclude>
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<includeonly>{{Short description|Wikipedia's portal for exploring content related to {{{1|{{{content|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}}}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{Documentation}}</noinclude>

Revision as of 04:00, 1 July 2018

Purpose

Adds standardized WP:Short description metadata to the portal.

Usage

{{Portal description}}

Output

Code this will output:
{{Short description|Wikipedia's portal for exploring content related to {{PAGENAME}}}}
Resulting description:
Wikipedia's portal for exploring content related to Portal title

Parameter

The parameter |topic= or |1= can be used to override the default topic display, which is the base pagename. This is primarily to disambiguate or clarity; while our portal names are as concise as we can make them while still being recognizable, this is not alway ideal, descriptively.

Example:
Portal:English would get a default description of "Wikipedia's portal for exploring content related to English", which might be confusing to some readers (English culture and people? English history?).
Code:
{{Portal description|the English language}}
     or
{{Portal description}}

Do not add a separate {{Short description}} template to the portal in attempt to override the default output of this template; use this template's parameter instead, or the page will have two conflicting short descriptions. If a different style of short description is necessary, replace {{Portal description}} with {{Short description}}, in which the full short description is required as the parameter.

Viewing short descriptions

To temporarily or permanently turn on inline display of short description content on Wikipedia pages, see Template:Short description/doc#Testing.

See also