This template is used to have JL-Bot generate a listing of Recognized Content, like featured articles, good articles, articles featured in the Did you know? or In the News section of the main page, and so on. For some examples, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Recognized content or Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Recognized content.
You can also use it to generate lists of Did You Know? blurbs (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Did you know or Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/DYK).
For details on what Recognized Content is exactly and how to make the most out of it, see this Signpost article.
Usage
Place the template where you want the content displayed:
{{User:JL-Bot/Project content
|project parameter (see below)
|content parameters (see below)
|optional parameters (see below)
}}
To hide the message box at the top, simply use
|mbox=no
The template contains no content so it does not impact the visual appearance of the page which transcludes it.
Only use this in the following namespaces:
Wikipedia:Portal:User:User talk:
While it will technically work in the following namespaces
Portal talk:Wikipedia talk:
it should normally not be used there (at least on the root of talk pages of Portals and WikiProject).
Project parameter
The project parameter defines how the bot is to identify project content. One of the two following parameters needs to be provided:
|template = Name of project template|category = Name of project category
The template parameter needs to have the name of the talk page template that is used by the project to identify articles within its scope. For example, WikiProject Physics uses the {{WikiProject Physics}} template so the parameter for them would be |template = WikiProject Physics. If there are redirects to the template (ex. {{WP Physics}} → {{WikiProject Physics}}), pages tagged with the redirect will still be picked up as they show up in the target's transclusions. However, do not use a redirect as the template name as only pages tagged with the redirect will be picked up.
The category parameter needs to have the name of the category that is used by the project to identify articles within its scope.
If the project's template can be "merged" into another project's template (example), then the category parameter is probably a better option as not all the project's articles will be tagged with the template.
Multiple template and category parameters can be specified and the bot will pick up articles in all the templates and categories specified. This can be useful in cases such as portals with multiple applicable projects.
- Note: To avoid having the page listed on Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, the multiple parameters can be numbered. Example:
|template1 = Name of project template one|template2 = Name of project template two
- The numbers have no effect on the output and do not need to be sequential.
Content parameters
The content parameters define the content types to be listed. The following types are supported:
|content-featured-articles-- lists Category:Wikipedia featured articles content|content-former-featured-articles-- lists Category:Wikipedia former featured articles content|content-featured-lists-- lists Category:Wikipedia featured lists content|content-former-featured-lists-- lists Category:Wikipedia former featured lists content|content-good-articles-- lists Category:Wikipedia good articles content|content-former-good-articles-- lists Category:Delisted good articles content|content-did-you-know-articles-- lists Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles content|content-featured-pictures-- lists Category:Featured pictures content|content-former-featured-pictures-- lists Category:Wikipedia former featured pictures content|content-featured-portals-- lists Category:Wikipedia featured portals content|content-former-featured-portals-- lists Category:Wikipedia former featured portals content|content-featured-article-candidates-- lists Category:Wikipedia featured article candidates content|content-featured-list-candidates-- lists Category:Wikipedia featured list candidates content|content-good-article-nominees-- lists Category:Good article nominees content|content-a-class-articles = Name of project A-Class category-- lists specified category's content|content-b-class-articles = Name of project B-Class category-- lists specified category's content|content-c-class-articles = Name of project C-Class category-- lists specified category's content|content-mainpage-in-the-news-- lists Category:Wikipedia In the news articles content|content-mainpage-featured-- lists Category:Featured articles that have appeared on the main page content|content-mainpage-lists-- lists Category:Featured lists that have appeared on the main page content|content-picture-of-the-day-- lists Template:Picture of the day content|content-featured-topics-- lists Category:Featured topics & Category:Wikipedia fully featured topics content|content-former-featured-topics-- lists Category:Wikipedia former featured topics content|content-good-topics-- lists Category:Wikipedia Good topics content|content-vital-articles-level-1-- lists Category:Wikipedia level-1 vital articles content|content-vital-articles-level-2-- lists Category:Wikipedia level-2 vital articles content|content-vital-articles-level-3-- lists Category:Wikipedia level-3 vital articles content|content-vital-articles-level-4-- lists Category:Wikipedia level-4 vital articles content|content-vital-articles-level-5-- lists Category:Wikipedia level-5 vital articles content
The content will be listed in the order the parameters appear in the template.
Multiple content-[abc]-class-articles parameters can be specified and the bot will list the articles from all the specified categories.
- Note: To avoid having the page listed on Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, the multiple parameters can be numbered. Example:
|content-a-class-articles1 = Name of project A-Class category one|content-a-class-articles2 = Name of project A-Class category two
- The numbers have no effect on the output and do not need to be sequential.
Optional parameters
The following optional parameters are supported:
|compact- specifies compact layout instead of column layout (ex: article1 · article2). The
compactoption overrides thecolumnsandiconsoptions. |maximum=number- specifies the maximum articles to list in
compactmode. Themaximumoption only applies when thecompactoption is set. |small- specifies using a reduced text size in
compactmode. Thesmalloption only applies when thecompactoption is set. |columns=#em- specifies column size in default column layout
|icons- specifies the use of content type icons before page names
|icons-heading- specifies the use of content type icons before the headings
|heading=number- defines the heading level (number of "="s) to use; the default is level 2. The
headingoption allows for 0 and 2-6. A value of 2-6 defines the heading level (i.e. the number of "="s to use). A value of 0 means to not use a formal heading level, but instead use the ";Title" syntax. |noheading- specifies that headings are not to be displayed. The
noheadingoption overrides theheadingoption. |pictures-list- specifies pictures should be listed (obeying the columns, icons, and compact options). Pictures will use the
<gallery></gallery>syntax if thepictures-listoption is not set. |gallery-heights=number- specifies the minimum height (in px) to be used for a picture gallery (see
heights=option at Help:Gallery tag) |dates- specifies including in the output the date the content was on the Main Page (where applicable)
|no-captions- specifies captions should not be added in picture gallery mode. Captions are added by default.
|sorting=value- specifies the sorting to use. The
sortingoption may be set todefault(sort by DEFAULTSORT key),alpha(sort alphabetically),date-default(sort Main Page content by date, remainder by DEFAULTSORT key), anddate-alpha(sort Main Page content by date, remainder alphabetically). The default isdefaultif not specified. |date-order=value- specifies the sorting order for dates. The
date-orderoption may be set toincreasingordecreasing. This option only applies when thesortingoption is set todate-defaultordate-alpha. The default isincreasingif not specified. |display-total- specifies that a count of the number of pages in the content type is displayed
|overflow-FA=page name|overflow-GA=page name|overflow-DYK=page name|overflow-a-class=page name|overflow-b-class=page name|overflow-c-class=page name|overflow-vital-1=page name|overflow-vital-2=page name|overflow-vital-3=page name|overflow-vital-4=page name|overflow-vital-5=page name- specifies an overflow page for corresponding kind of article when using
maximum. These options only apply when themaximumoption is set. They allow a page name to be specified that will be added as a link after the maximum number of articles are outputted. This is designed to allow linking to a page that contains a full listing of the content type. See this page for an usage example. |dyk-blurbor|dyk-blurb=N- specifies displaying DYK blurbs instead of page names. The
dyk-blurboption displays the DYK blurb (if available) instead of the page name. If a number is specified, then the firstNblurbs will be displayed normally and the remaining blurbs will be wrapped in<include></noinclude>. This can be used to limit the number of blurbs that are transcluded onto another page. |dyk-blurb-paged- specifies displaying DYK blurbs on subpages by year. This can be useful if the content would otherwise exceed the Wikipedia's maximum page size. The DYK blurbs will be saved to subpages organized by year. The subpages will be transcluded to the project content page with 10 blurbs per subpage. The subpages will follow the blurb formatting and sorting order specified for the main page.
- Note: These subpages are only for the bot's content. The subpages' content will be completely replaced when the project content is updated by the bot.
|italics- specifies displaying {{italic title}} in italics. The
italicsoption will display pages marked as {{italic title}}s in italics. If the page title ends in a parenthesized text, only the part before the parenthesizes will be italicized. However, it does not support the|stringparameter (allowing a subset of the title to be in italics) or other italic templates that require parsing the page content to determine what portion of the title is to be italicized. This option should only be utilized if those limitations are suitable for the recognized content being displayed. |type=text- replace text "recognized content" with
textin the wikitext output.
Output
The results will be written to same page as the template. They will be prefaced by a comment header and followed by a comment footer. This header and footer are not visible on the displayed page, but are needed to allow the bot to identify prior results.
- header =
<!-- Start of content generated by JL-Bot --> - footer =
<!-- End of content generated by JL-Bot -->
If the bot doesn't find a valid header and footer (ex. first run), it will place the results immediately below the template. If it does find a valid header and footer (updates), it will replace the content between the header and footer with the new results.
Example
{{User:JL-Bot/Project content
|template = <!-- name of WikiProject template without the prefix "Template:" -->
|content-featured-articles
|content-former-featured-articles
|content-featured-lists
|content-former-featured-lists
|content-good-articles
|content-former-good-articles
|content-did-you-know-articles
|content-featured-pictures
|content-former-featured-pictures
|content-featured-portals
|content-former-featured-portals
|content-featured-article-candidates
|content-featured-list-candidates
|content-good-article-nominees
|content-a-class-articles =
|content-b-class-articles =
|content-c-class-articles =
|content-mainpage-in-the-news
|content-mainpage-featured
|content-mainpage-lists
|content-picture-of-the-day
|content-featured-topics
|content-former-featured-topics
|content-good-topics
|content-vital-articles-level-1
|content-vital-articles-level-2
|content-vital-articles-level-3
|content-vital-articles-level-4
|content-vital-articles-level-5
|columns = 2
|heading = 3
|icons
}}
<!-- Start of content generated by JL-Bot -->
<!-- End of content generated by JL-Bot -->
Tracking category
- Category:Wikipedia lists of recognized content (1,627) – For standalone/Near-standalone list pages. It will not list Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics if
{{User:JL-Bot/Project content}}is directly embedded, but will list the standalone Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Recognized content (and similar lists).