Template:Portal description
 | This template adds an automatically generated short description. If the automatic short description is not optimal, replace it by adding {{Short description}} at the top of the article. |
Purpose
Adds standardized WP:Short description metadata to the portal.
Usage
{{Portal description}}
Output
- Code this will output:
{{Short description|Wikipedia portal for content related to {{PAGENAME}}}}- Resulting description:
- Wikipedia's portal for exploring content related to Portal title
Parameters
topic
The parameter |topic= or |1= can be used to override the default topic display, which is the base pagename. This is primarily to disambiguate or clarity; while our portal names are as concise as we can make them while still being recognizable, this is not always ideal, descriptively.
- Example:
- Portal:English would get a default description of "Wikipedia portal for content related to English", which might be confusing to some readers (English culture and people? English history?).
- Code:
{{Portal description|the English language}}
or{{Portal description}}
Do not add a separate {{Short description}} template to the portal in attempt to override the default output of this template; use this template's parameter instead, or the page will have two conflicting short descriptions. If a different style of short description is necessary, replace {{Portal description}} with {{Short description}}, in which the full short description is required as the parameter.
lc
By default, this template preserves the case of the portal's page name, e.g. "Portal:Dogs" would result in the not-quite-valid short description "Wikipedia portal for content related to Dogs". The |lc= parameter, set to any value, will lower-case the full page name, so "Portal:Dogs" with |lc=yes results in the short description "Wikipedia portal for content related to dogs".
Viewing short descriptions
To temporarily or permanently turn on inline display of short description content on Wikipedia pages, see Template:Short description/doc#Testing.
