Template:Signpost/item
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- The guts of this are at Template:Signpost/item/core (h · e).
{{Signpost/item
|{{{1}}}
|2
|2025-06-24
|In the media
|Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
|0.4 MB
|sub = Pardon our alliteration!
|by = [[User:Bri|Bri]], [[User:Smallbones|Smallbones]], [[User:SashiRolls|SashiRolls]], and [[User:Jayen466|Andreas Kolbe]]
|piccyfilename = File:Allan Alcorn in 2012 with first Pong ad.jpg
|piccy-credits = Digital Game Museum
|piccy-license = cc-by-2.0
|piccy-scaling = 700
|piccy-xoffset = 150
|piccy-yoffset =
}}
Usage
This is used to link or display a Signpost section (e.g. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-08-23/Technology report) in various different formats.
{{{1}}}= display format. Possible values:
- "1" = Nothing but a linked section name. This is what it does in the bottom of a Signpost article (through Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-comments-end).
- "2" = Invokes {{Signpost/snippet}}.
- "3" = two-column format of anchor links. Used for TOC in Wikipedia:Signpost/Single.
- "4" = full transclusion, with anchor. Used in Wikipedia:Signpost/Single.
- Default: When
{{{1}}}isn't parsed, it will give the normal format. Plain list of bullet + section name +[[story link|headline]]+ subhed. Used in issue content page (example: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-08-23) and via this in Template:Signpost-subscription, User:EdwardsBot/Spam, Template:User Signpost-subscription (via Template:Signpost-textonly), some others. This is the most commonly used format, probably...
{{{2}}}= running number of the section in the issue, between 0 and 18{{{3}}}= date of the Signpost issue, e.g. "2010-08-23". Forms part of the URL (page name in the wiki){{{4}}}= page name (short, generic), e.g. "Technology report". Forms part of the URL (page name in the wiki). Must be consistent with previous issues for linking between consecutive reports.{{{5}}}= section headline (longer, generic or descriptive), e.g. "Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News" or (here:) "Pending changes poll, Public policy classes, Payment schemes debate, and more"
Esoterics
{{{6}}}= This is not used anywhere in the template, but for some reason, the individual issue pages (i.e. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-08-15) call this template with a useless sixth parameter, which is the pagesize of the article. Like this:
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Cover-item|{{{1}}}|11|2023-08-15|Traffic report|'Cause today it just goes with the fashion|0.3 MB}}
- Why on Earth does it do this? We don't know.
- Note: it started in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-04-30.
{{{sub}}}= Subheading, at least as called from the individual Signpost archive pages (e.g. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-14). This won't always be present (because Signpost articles didn't always have subheds) but I backfilled a very large amount of them.
Additional formats
As mentioned elsewhere earlier, I would like to use the flexibility of this system to add the following display formats (i.e. new values for {{{1}}}}). They would save a considerable amount of time in the weekly publication process and reduce the risk of errors. Mostly they are for generating ready-for-copypaste-text.
- "5" for blog (RSS) announcements (example)
Required code:
- | 6 = {{{4}}}: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/{{{3}}}/{{{4}}}" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/{{{3}}}/{{{4}}}">{{{5}}}</a><nowiki><br></nowiki>
will give e.g.
- In the news: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-09-06/In_the_news" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-09-06/In the news">WikiLeaks and Wikipedia; Google–WP collaboration to translate health information</a><br>
- "6" for Foundation-l mailing list announcements (example)
Required code:
- | 7 = {{{4}}}: {{{5}}}<br/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/{{{3}}}/{{{4}}}<br/>
will give e.g.
- In the news: WikiLeaks and Wikipedia; Google–WP collaboration to translate health information
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-09-06/In_the_news
- "7" for announcements via Global message delivery (example)
Required code:
- | 8 = * {{{4}}}: [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/{{{3}}}/{{{4}}}|{{{5}}}<nowiki>]]</nowiki><br/>
will give e.g.
- News and notes: [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-09-27/News and notes|French million, controversial content, Citizendium charter, Pending changes, and more]]
Please review and correct, I may have messed up one or two nowikis or line breaks.
If I understand the structure correctly, the four code lines above (for 4,5,7,8) will need to be inserted in the current version after " | 4 = " and before " | * {{{4}}}: ".
Examples
Listed by display format, with the following parameters.
{{Signpost/item |(varies by example number) |2 |2025-06-24 |In the media |Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion |0.4 MB |sub = Pardon our alliteration! |by = [[User:Bri|Bri]], [[User:Smallbones|Smallbones]], [[User:SashiRolls|SashiRolls]], and [[User:Jayen466|Andreas Kolbe]] |piccyfilename = File:Allan Alcorn in 2012 with first Pong ad.jpg |piccy-credits = Digital Game Museum |piccy-license = cc-by-2.0 |piccy-scaling = 700 |piccy-xoffset = 150 |piccy-yoffset = }}
1(plain list)
2(two-column format)
3(two-column format of anchor links)
4(full transclusion)
Extended content
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{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-06-24/In the media}} Reader comments |
5(for blog announcements)
- Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
6(mailing list announcements)
7(global message delivery announcements)
https:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-06-24/In_the_media
default(most-used view)
- In the media: Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
Pardon our alliteration!