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Tjr: /* Automatizing the featured articles */ Done. I'm only doing features it this one time.

2010-03-01T18:21:15Z

‎Automatizing the featured articles: Done. I'm only doing features it this one time.

Tjr: /* Automatizing the featured articles */ let's get going

2010-01-25T01:20:02Z

‎Automatizing the featured articles: let's get going

ZeroOne: /* Automatizing the featured articles */ I did something like this in the Civ IV wiki now...

2010-01-11T12:56:19Z

‎Automatizing the featured articles: I did something like this in the Civ IV wiki now...

Shijun: /* Automatizing the featured articles */ a suggestion

2010-01-10T22:53:19Z

‎Automatizing the featured articles: a suggestion

Tjr: /* Automatizing the featured articles */

2010-01-10T14:55:17Z

‎Automatizing the featured articles

ZeroOne: /* Automatizing the featured articles */ spellcheck...

2010-01-10T14:22:53Z

‎Automatizing the featured articles: spellcheck...

ZeroOne: /* Automaticizing the featured articles */ new section

2010-01-10T14:22:08Z

‎Automaticizing the featured articles: new section

24.174.5.145 at 16:12, 3 February 2008

2008-02-03T16:12:22Z

24.174.5.145 at 15:07, 3 February 2008

2008-02-03T15:07:18Z

Spazm: /* September */

2007-09-22T16:49:53Z

‎September

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	::: Now that we have agreement in a general sense to automate the system and we have a good suggestion to start with (Civ4), is there anything to stop us from setting this up? If there is no further discussion or action, I'm going to copy the Civ4 code verbatim for the March featured article. -[[User:Tjr\|Tjr]] 01:20, January 25, 2010 (UTC)		::: Now that we have agreement in a general sense to automate the system and we have a good suggestion to start with (Civ4), is there anything to stop us from setting this up? If there is no further discussion or action, I'm going to copy the Civ4 code verbatim for the March featured article. -[[User:Tjr\|Tjr]] 01:20, January 25, 2010 (UTC)
		+	::: Done. I'm only doing features it this one time. -[[User:Tjr\|Tjr]] 18:21, March 1, 2010 (UTC)

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	::Thanks for your comments! I'm not sure if maintaining one lengthy template is any easier than maintaining 12 short ones? We could also use the template parameters as a front-end but "behind the scenes" use those smaller templates. I have setup something like that in the ''Civilization IV wiki'', take a look at it here: [http://civ4.wikia.com/wiki/Civ4_Wiki:Featured_articles Civ4 Wiki:Featured articles]. Notice how the FA-template automatically generates those headers and edit links when it is given an additional parameter. In the main page the parameter is not used so neither the plain header nor the edit link will be rendered. —[[User:ZeroOne\|ZeroOne]] (<small>[[User talk:ZeroOne\|talk]]</small> / <small>[[Special:Emailuser/ZeroOne\|@]]</small>) 12:56, January 11, 2010 (UTC)		::Thanks for your comments! I'm not sure if maintaining one lengthy template is any easier than maintaining 12 short ones? We could also use the template parameters as a front-end but "behind the scenes" use those smaller templates. I have setup something like that in the ''Civilization IV wiki'', take a look at it here: [http://civ4.wikia.com/wiki/Civ4_Wiki:Featured_articles Civ4 Wiki:Featured articles]. Notice how the FA-template automatically generates those headers and edit links when it is given an additional parameter. In the main page the parameter is not used so neither the plain header nor the edit link will be rendered. —[[User:ZeroOne\|ZeroOne]] (<small>[[User talk:ZeroOne\|talk]]</small> / <small>[[Special:Emailuser/ZeroOne\|@]]</small>) 12:56, January 11, 2010 (UTC)
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		+	::: Now that we have agreement in a general sense to automate the system and we have a good suggestion to start with (Civ4), is there anything to stop us from setting this up? If there is no further discussion or action, I'm going to copy the Civ4 code verbatim for the March featured article. -[[User:Tjr\|Tjr]] 01:20, January 25, 2010 (UTC)

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	:I agree that this is a good idea, though I have one suggestion: it might be easier if we use template parameters (e.g. <nowiki>{{Featured article\|January}}</nowiki> and <nowiki>{{Featured article\|February}}</nowiki>) so that we don't have to maintain 12 different templates. —[[User:Shijun\|Shijun]] 22:53, January 10, 2010 (UTC)		:I agree that this is a good idea, though I have one suggestion: it might be easier if we use template parameters (e.g. <nowiki>{{Featured article\|January}}</nowiki> and <nowiki>{{Featured article\|February}}</nowiki>) so that we don't have to maintain 12 different templates. —[[User:Shijun\|Shijun]] 22:53, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
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		+	::Thanks for your comments! I'm not sure if maintaining one lengthy template is any easier than maintaining 12 short ones? We could also use the template parameters as a front-end but "behind the scenes" use those smaller templates. I have setup something like that in the ''Civilization IV wiki'', take a look at it here: [http://civ4.wikia.com/wiki/Civ4_Wiki:Featured_articles Civ4 Wiki:Featured articles]. Notice how the FA-template automatically generates those headers and edit links when it is given an additional parameter. In the main page the parameter is not used so neither the plain header nor the edit link will be rendered. —[[User:ZeroOne\|ZeroOne]] (<small>[[User talk:ZeroOne\|talk]]</small> / <small>[[Special:Emailuser/ZeroOne\|@]]</small>) 12:56, January 11, 2010 (UTC)

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	: Sounds good, in my opinion we should do as you describe. A minor pitfall could be: someone would still need to manually brush up the articles before they automatically and silently get featured. -[[User:Tjr\|Tjr]] 14:55, January 10, 2010 (UTC)		: Sounds good, in my opinion we should do as you describe. A minor pitfall could be: someone would still need to manually brush up the articles before they automatically and silently get featured. -[[User:Tjr\|Tjr]] 14:55, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
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		+	:I agree that this is a good idea, though I have one suggestion: it might be easier if we use template parameters (e.g. <nowiki>{{Featured article\|January}}</nowiki> and <nowiki>{{Featured article\|February}}</nowiki>) so that we don't have to maintain 12 different templates. —[[User:Shijun\|Shijun]] 22:53, January 10, 2010 (UTC)

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	What do you think? It takes some setting up but I believe it would be worth it because we wouldn't run into awkward situations where we'd have last month's featured article on the main page. —[[User:ZeroOne\|ZeroOne]] (<small>[[User talk:ZeroOne\|talk]]</small> / <small>[[Special:Emailuser/ZeroOne\|@]]</small>) 14:22, January 10, 2010 (UTC)		What do you think? It takes some setting up but I believe it would be worth it because we wouldn't run into awkward situations where we'd have last month's featured article on the main page. —[[User:ZeroOne\|ZeroOne]] (<small>[[User talk:ZeroOne\|talk]]</small> / <small>[[Special:Emailuser/ZeroOne\|@]]</small>) 14:22, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
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		+	: Sounds good, in my opinion we should do as you describe. A minor pitfall could be: someone would still need to manually brush up the articles before they automatically and silently get featured. -[[User:Tjr\|Tjr]] 14:55, January 10, 2010 (UTC)

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 OK since it is now September 22nd, I am changing the featured article to [[Knight]]. I hope i did it right. [[User:Spazm|Spazm]] 16:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
-== Automaticizing the featured articles ==
+== Automatizing the featured articles ==
 In Wikipedia the featured article changes daily instead of monthy like here, so it's not done by hand but prepared beforehand and changed automatically. There's this Mediawiki special code that produces the current date: "<nowiki>{{#time:F j, Y}}</nowiki>" renders as "{{#time:F j, Y}}". Now, put that code inside a template call and you can call a different template each month: you could have {{t|Featured article/January}}, {{t|Featured article/February}}, etc. and you'd just need to edit those.

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	OK since it is now September 22nd, I am changing the featured article to [[Knight]]. I hope i did it right. [[User:Spazm\|Spazm]] 16:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)		OK since it is now September 22nd, I am changing the featured article to [[Knight]]. I hope i did it right. [[User:Spazm\|Spazm]] 16:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
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		+	== Automaticizing the featured articles ==
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		+	In Wikipedia the featured article changes daily instead of monthy like here, so it's not done by hand but prepared beforehand and changed automatically. There's this Mediawiki special code that produces the current date: "<nowiki>{{#time:F j, Y}}</nowiki>" renders as "{{#time:F j, Y}}". Now, put that code inside a template call and you can call a different template each month: you could have {{t\|Featured article/January}}, {{t\|Featured article/February}}, etc. and you'd just need to edit those.
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		+	Of course someone would still need to work as the editor but they could do their job up to a year in advance. Also, that scheme would rotate the featured articles in 12 month cycles in case anyone forgot to add new content to the templates, but I find that acceptable. Who remembers what was featured a year ago, anyway?
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		+	What do you think? It takes some setting up but I believe it would be worth it because we wouldn't run into awkward situations where we'd have last month's featured article on the main page. —[[User:ZeroOne\|ZeroOne]] (<small>[[User talk:ZeroOne\|talk]]</small> / <small>[[Special:Emailuser/ZeroOne\|@]]</small>) 14:22, January 10, 2010 (UTC)

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	OK since it is now September 22nd, I am changing the featured article to [[Knight]]. I hope i did it right. [[User:Spazm\|Spazm]] 16:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)		OK since it is now September 22nd, I am changing the featured article to [[Knight]]. I hope i did it right. [[User:Spazm\|Spazm]] 16:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
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−	~~Does someone have a featured article for February?~~

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	OK since it is now September 22nd, I am changing the featured article to [[Knight]]. I hope i did it right. [[User:Spazm\|Spazm]] 16:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)		OK since it is now September 22nd, I am changing the featured article to [[Knight]]. I hope i did it right. [[User:Spazm\|Spazm]] 16:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
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		+	==February==
		+	Does someone have a featured article for February?

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	== September ==		== September ==

−	So it is now September 11th, and the featured article is still on August... not sure who can change this.	+	So it is now September 11th, and the featured article is still on August... not sure who can change this.[[User:Spazm\|Spazm]] 16:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
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		+	OK since it is now September 22nd, I am changing the featured article to [[Knight]]. I hope i did it right. [[User:Spazm\|Spazm]] 16:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)