Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Single talk/doc

You just transclude this on the talk page for the single issue. See Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2022-11-28 for an example.

The entire source code for one of these talk pages should just be:

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

The core of this is 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 Signpost/Templates/Article list maker/Comment section.

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:. Essentially, it gets "2022-11-28" as a substring of, 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.

It uses magic words, namely, to do this in a smart way: Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2022-11-28 1                 2      3                ^                  ^      ^

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