Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Single talk/doc

Similar to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Issue pageviews (which is itself transcluded at the end busted because graphs don't work).

The core of this is Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article list maker, which uses Module:Signpost to fetch article lists from indices.

These indices are at places like Module:Signpost/index/2022. These indices are (as of December 2022) populated by User:Mr._Stradivarius/gadgets/SignpostTagger.

Another task of the article list maker is to apply custom formatting to the entries it gets, which it does here according to the template at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article list maker/Comment section.

{{cot|Old way}}

One thing to note is that this template (Single talk) uses kind of an ugly hack to get the date out of the page name: {{#invoke:string|sub|{{PAGENAME}}|27|36}}. Essentially, it gets "2022-11-28" as a substring of {{PAGENAME}}, like this:

Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2022-11-28

111111111122222222223333333

123456789012345678901234567890123456

^ ^

This means that it will only work right on pages whose titles follow the exact format of "Wikipedia Signpost/Single/YYYY-MM-DD". This shouldn't be a problem, but it could become one, and I want you to know about this if it starts breaking for no reason.

Update: I fixed it, due to being a genius.

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It uses magic words, namely titleparts, to do this in a smart way:

{{#titleparts:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|3|3}}

Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2022-11-28

1 2 3

^ ^ ^

You can force this to use a specific page as the transclusion target by supplying the param FULLPAGENAME (which the template will use in place of the magic word).

{{cot|2010-01-04 (Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2010-01-04)}}

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Single talk|FULLPAGENAME=Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2010-01-04}}

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{{cot|2017-10-23 (Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2017-10-23)}}

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Single talk|FULLPAGENAME=Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2017-10-23}}

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