Template:Transclude selected recent additions

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This templates transcludes "Did you know?" blurbs on specified topics from the monthly subpages of Wikipedia:Recent additions (the Did you know? archives). It is intended for use in the "Did you know" sections of Portals.

Usage

{{Transclude selected recent additions | <search pattern 1> | ... | <search pattern n> | not1= | ... | notn= | months= | max= | latest= | none= | more= |header= |footer= }}

Basic: {{Transclude selected recent additions| search pattern }}
Multiple search patterns: {{Transclude selected recent additions| search pattern | second search pattern | third search pattern }}; Add as many search patterns as needed
With patterns to exclude items: {{Transclude selected recent additions| search pattern | not=search pattern to exclude from results }}; Add additional search patterns to exclude items from results using |not2=, |not3=, etc.
As a portal component which only displays when items are found: {{Transclude selected recent additions| header= header template | footer= footer template | other parameters }}
As a suggestion generator, e.g. on the portal talk page: {{Transclude selected recent additions| latest=yes | wikitext=yes | other parameters }}

Parameters

|1=, |2=, |3= ...: Search patterns for items
|not1=, |not2=, |not3= ...: Search patterns for excluding items
|months=: Number of months to search through for items (counting backwards from the current date); default is 30 (nb. you may find large numbers equal to several years won't work for technical reasons).
|max=: Maximum number of items to display; default is 6
|latest=: Set to yes to display the most recent items; omit this parameter to display a randomised set of items (with new selections when the page is purged)
|wikitext=: Set to yes to display the wikitext of the items, e.g. when using this template just to generate suggestions
|none=: Wikitext to display if no matching items are found; default is "No recent additions"
|more=: Wikitext to show at the bottom of the list; OR; Set to yes to show More recent additions... link at the bottom of the list
|header=: Wikitext to show above the items; typically {{Box-header}} or {{Box-header colour}} or similar (with appropriate parameters filled in); If set, this template only displays output when items are found (overriding |more= if set)
|footer=: Wikitext to show below the items; defaults to {{Box-footer}}; Can only be used in conjunction with |header=

Search patterns

Search patterns are Lua patterns, which are similar to regular expressions. This means that ^$()%.[]*+-? characters have special meaning, such as . matching any character. To search for those characters themselves, they need to be escaped by prefixing a %

For piped links, both the target article name as well as the displayed text are searched for matches. Images and image captions are not searched for matches.

B Tip: To make a letter in a search pattern case-insensitive, put both the upper-case and lowercase letter inside square-brackets, i.e. [Aa]pple will match both An apple is... and Apples are....

Examples

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Note: Purge this page to show new selections, if available

Europe

{{Transclude selected recent additions|Europe}}

... that Le langaige du Bresil, one of the earliest documentary sources of any South American language, demonstrates that Europeans and Brazilian indigenous peoples maintained intimate social contacts?
... that the European Sky Shield Initiative is expected to have anti-ballistic missile capability?
... that Russia's Unfriendly Countries List includes the United States, the European Union, and San Marino?
... that British Turk Hüseyin Er won world and European championships with the Turkey national deaf football team?
... that in 2009, Doreen Nabwire became the first Kenyan woman to play professional football in Europe?
... that filmmaker Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany, has seen the return of many species of bird and plant, as well as pine martens, stoats and otters, to his ancestral lands with rewilding?

Europe (as portal component that is only displayed when there is news; limited to a maximum of 3 items)

{{Transclude selected recent additions|Europe|header={{Box-header color|Did you know...}}|max=3}}

Did you know...

... that PeopleSound was Europe's most visited music streaming site in 2000, and had offered any artist £100 for each song they uploaded?
... that in the 1980s, international LGBT organizations organized protests in Europe and the Americas in support of Belgian teacher Eliane Morissens?
... that an Indian maharajah asked Eugenie Grosup to marry him after she received a deportation notice to leave India and return to Nazi-occupied Europe?

United Kingdom

{{Transclude selected recent additions|United Kingdom}}

... that Liz Shore's nomination to be Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom was vetoed by Margaret Thatcher because of Shore's husband's political affiliation?
... that the 2023 United Kingdom student protests were organised on TikTok and Snapchat?
... that in Crippled, author Frances Ryan describes a disabled British woman who was unable to afford heating or her specialist meals due to an austerity programme that began in 2010?
... that Ed Miliband retweeted "Chaos with Ed Miliband" with a clown emoji during the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis?
... that Southern Water was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping sewage into the sea?
... that South African nurse Stella Madzimbamuto filed an appeal in 1968 with the Privy Council of the United Kingdom that resulted in the Rhodesian government being declared illegal?

Europe OR United Kingdom

{{Transclude selected recent additions|Europe|United Kingdom}}

... that in 2022 Marios Georgiou became Cyprus's first European champion in gymnastics?
... that Dimitrie Ralet, a pioneer Romanian orientalist, commended Ottoman reformers for not "blindly adopting what we in Europe take to mean civilization"?
... that Julia Marden was the first known person to create a Wampanoag twined turkey-feather mantle since European contact 400 years earlier?
... that even though Australian citizens are no longer British subjects, they can still vote in elections and stand for parliament in the United Kingdom?
... that vehicles crossing Terras Bridge pass over a tidal river, an ungated level crossing, and the remains of a canal?
... that a European settler in Kenya who tortured a black employee to death in 1920 was sentenced to just two years' imprisonment?

Europe AND United Kingdom

{{Transclude selected recent additions\|Europe.United Kingdom\|United Kingdom.Europe\|months=24}}
... that the historian and political journalist Lancelot Lawton addressed a House of Commons committee in London in 1935, beginning: "The chief problem in Europe to-day is the Ukrainian problem"?

United Kingdom AND NOT Australia

{{Transclude selected recent additions|United Kingdom|not=Australia}}

... that vehicles crossing Terras Bridge pass over a tidal river, an ungated level crossing, and the remains of a canal?
... that the 2023 United Kingdom student protests were organised on TikTok and Snapchat?
... that Sting wrote "We Work the Black Seam" because he felt that "the case for coal was never put to the nation" during the 1984–85 British miners' strike, which began 40 years ago today?
... that the 37-metre-long (121 ft) Burnham Pier is sometimes described as the United Kingdom's shortest?
... that Anita Rivas, an Ecuadorian mayor, visited the United Kingdom and offered to stop oil drilling in a rainforest in Yasuní National Park?
... that when Westminster City Council in London agreed to use "global majority" as a more inclusive term than BAME or "ethnic minority", a Conservative MP called it "deeply sinister"?

SomethingWithNoMatches

{{Transclude selected recent additions\|SomethingWithNoMatches\|months=2}}
No recent additions

United Kingdom – most recent items only (non-randomised)

{{Transclude selected recent additions|United Kingdom|latest=yes|months=24}}

... that Sting wrote "We Work the Black Seam" because he felt that "the case for coal was never put to the nation" during the 1984–85 British miners' strike, which began 40 years ago today?
... that Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?
... that Southern Water was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping sewage into the sea?
... that Dublin property developer Harry Crosbie received an OBE from the British ambassador to Ireland, partly for entertaining Elizabeth II with his showbiz contacts?
... that when Sarah Jane Baker was released after 30 years, she was the United Kingdom's longest serving transgender prisoner?
... that before Michael Shanks became Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, he ran along all of Glasgow's 6,143 streets?

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Template:Transclude selected recent additions

Usage

Parameters

Search patterns

Examples

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