Template:votes/documentation

How to add votes

To add new votes, edit Wiktionary:Votes/Active and insert votes using the code below.

|Dec 9|2017-11/First vote example|
|Dec 10|2017-11/Second vote example|

This example links to "Wiktionary:Votes/2017-11/First vote example" and "Wiktionary:Votes/2017-11/Second vote example".

Notes:

• Omit the "Wiktionary:Votes/" prefix.
• Dates like "Dec 9" indicate when the votes are scheduled to end (not the start date).
• Use three-letter month names (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec).
• Order the votes by end date, from earlier to later (this is the order: Jan 1, Jan 2, Jan 3, etc.)
• Add a | at the end of every vote. The vote result is added after the vertical bar when the vote ends.

How to remove votes

• Move the votes from Wiktionary:Votes/Active to Wiktionary:Votes/Timeline, together with the vote result. Edit the end date if the vote ended later than scheduled.

Usage

To place this box anywhere, use:

{{votes}}

This is a box listing all the current and new votes. This template can be used anywhere, (e.g., your user page or talk page, for example) as a reminder of the votes to participate.

This template is used in Wiktionary:Votes, where it has the additional feature of filling the page with the contents of all the listed votes simultaneously. Editing this box automatically updates the contents of Wiktionary:Votes.

Additional pages

• Wiktionary:Votes/Active - the list of active votes.
• Template:votes/layout - the layout of the template.
• Template:votes/row - the layout of each individual row of the box.
• Template:votes/expand - generates each vote transclusion in Wiktionary:Votes.
• Template:votes/checkdate - this decides whether a row should be highlighted, and which color, based on the end date variable of the vote.
• MediaWiki:Watchlist-details - the watchlist, where this box is placed.