Wikiportal/Featured article

Template documentation (for the template shown above, sometimes hidden or invisible)

Template for displaying featured articles on portal pages.

Supports 2 methods of selecting articles:

Monthly rotation: Display a rotation of 2-31 articles based on day of the month (with less than 31 articles, articles will be repeated).
Full rotation: Display a rotation of 366 articles based on day of the year.

Usage

{{Wikiportal/Featured article
|mode         =monthly
|articlecount =10
|prefix       =Wikiportal:Fallout 3/Featured article
}}

The featured articles should all be subpages of a certain page (specified with prefix).

Parameters

(default: "{{PAGENAME}}")

prefix

Name of the template (without "Template:") which the featured articles are subpages of.

For example, if prefix is set to "Wikiportal:Fallout/Featured article", the featured articles should be named:

"Template:Wikiportal:Fallout/Featured article/1" (up to "Template:Wikiportal:Fallout/Featured article/31") for the monthly rotation and
"Template:Wikiportal:Fallout/Featured article/1 January" (up to "Template:Wikiportal:Fallout/Featured article/31 December") for the full rotation.

(default: "31")

articlecount

Number of articles to cycle through. Only has an effect if mode is set to "monthly", and if the number is lower than "31". When using partial rotations, the names of the featured article templates should be in ascending order and start at 1.

(default: "monthly")

mode

Determines type of rotation.

Available options:

monthly: 31-article-rotation based on day of the month.
full: 366-article-rotation based on day and month.

Examples

Monthly rotation (10 articles)

{{Wikiportal/Featured article
|prefix       =Wikiportal:Fallout 3/Featured article
|mode         =monthly
|articlecount =10
}}

results in the following featured article to be displayed today:

James, the father of the player character in Fallout 3 will appear prominently throughout the game. Both the Lone Wanderer and his father are inhabitants of Vault 101. Catherine, the mother of the Player Character died at childbirth. The Vault has been sealed for the last 200 years and no one has ever left it - until it turned out that the PC's father has disappeared from it without any explanation. The young Vault Dweller leaves the safe shelter to look for his father in the ruins of Washington, DC.
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Monthly rotation (31 articles)

{{Wikiportal/Featured article
|prefix       =Wikiportal:Fallout 3/Featured article
|mode         =monthly
}}

results in the following featured article to be displayed today:

Two hundred years after the Great War, a Chinese remnant still resides in Mama Dolce's Processing Plant in the ruins of Washington, D.C. Composed of ghoulified pre-War soldiers loyal to the People's Republic of China, the Remnant is oblivious to the fact that its original mission of espionage has become rather pointless in the aftermath of the Great War. As a result, the soldiers have occupied the food processing plant since 2077 and fiercely defend it against all intruders.
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Full rotation (366 articles)

{{Wikiportal/Featured article
|prefix       =Wikiportal:Main/Featured article
|mode         =full
}}

results in the following featured article to be displayed today:

The United States Space Administration (USSA) was the agency of the United States responsible for the administration of the nation's space program. First mentioned in Fallout 3, it is the Fallout world's equivalent of the real-life NASA. In an event that diverged from our timeline, in 1969, the Virgo II lunar lander "Valiant 11," piloted by Captains Richard Wade, Mark Garris and Michael Hagen, became the first manned space vehicle to touch down on the moon. In 2020, the USSA commissioned Delta IX rocket, one of the most successful rockets in the nation's history with over 77 successful launches.
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