Template:Potd description helper/doc

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To view the template page itself, see Template:Potd description helper.

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The template automatically sets the following categories:

• Category:Potd templates
• Category:Potd templates missing descriptions if the description is missing

Usage

{{Potd description helper |1= |2= |3= |4= |5= }}

Or use the shorthand

{{Pdh|… parameters as described …}}

This is a helper template for Template:Potd description. The main template is used hundreds of times on the main PotD setup pages - theoretically as many as 1800 times or so, though it depends on how many translations we actually get, so probably more like 400. As I (Adam Cuerden) understand it, a template has to be loaded in full every time it's called, but since the #ifeq tells the main template NOT to call this helper template on those pages, only the link to here gets loaded all those hundreds of times - and the link is, of course much smaller than all the actual content of this template.

Template parameters

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<templatedata>JSON</templatedata> ./. {{TemplateBox}}

TemplateData

TemplateData is a way to store information about template parameters (the description of those and of the whole template) for both humans and machines. It is used by VisualEditor and possibly other tools like Upload Wizard.

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Existing template documentation
At Wikimedia Commons, it is recommended to use {{TemplateBox}} with either ‎useTemplateData=1 or ‎useTemplateData=only on the ‎/doc subpage and transcluding it with {{Documentation}} into the template. ‎<nowiki>-tags can be wrapped around the arguments, if required, to avoid templates being expanded.

Newly created template documentation and imports
Another option, especially for imported templates, or for users with JSON experience, is placing raw ‎<templatedata>-tags into the Wikitext of the template, as described in various Wikipediae.

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Wikipedia's help about TemplateData • Commons-specific information

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
description	1	The description itself	Content	required
language	2	Code of the language the description is written in (en for English, de for German etc.)	Line	required
year	3	Year of the date this was the picture of the day	Number	required
month	4	Month of the date this was the picture of the day	Line	required
day	5	Day of the date this was the picture of the day	Line	required

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the Template namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Example

{{Potd description helper|Description|en|2024|12|01}}

renders as:

Description

 Template:Potd/2024-12-01

This is the English translation of the Picture of the day description page from 1 December 2024.

Description

Descriptions in other languages:

• Potd/2024-12-01 (cs)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (de)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (en)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (es)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (fr)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (hu)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (it)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (ko)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (mk)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (nl)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (pt)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (sl)
• Potd/2024-12-01 (uk)

See also

• {{Potd description}}

Localization

العربية ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ Esperanto ∙ español ∙ français ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Plattdüütsch ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português do Brasil ∙ русский ∙ slovenščina ∙ svenska ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 中文

This template makes use of {{Autotranslate}} and the translate extension.

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