Talk:Write an article

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You can add an intro to each template page by adding a 'editintro=Template:New_article_intro' line to each inputbox. The Template:New_article_intro page still needs to be made. See [1] for more info.

Itsme 25 July 2005 09:55 (CEST)

Contents

links to the templates

article template template introduction
Template:New Report Template:New_Report_intro
Template:New test Template:New_test_intro
Template:Interview Template:New_interview_intro
Template:Photo Template:New_photo_intro
Template:Audio Template:New_audio_intro

templates used in news articles

these are the keywords that are written in {{ ... }}

you should write them without Template, like {{report}}

article status content type where keywords

categories used by the above templates

these are the tags that are linked to in the above templates, in [[ ... ]]

usually you don't type these yourself, you should use the {{ ... }} templates in your article

  • beware* of the slight spelling differences between this, and the above list.
status content type where what

how news is displayed

on a page where headlines are needed, enter {{Headlines}}.
see Template:Headlines for the actual template.

lead article {{Lead article}} [[Template:Lead article]]
second lead {{Second lead}} [[Template:Second lead]]
third lead {{Third lead}} [[Template:Third lead]]
top 5 announcements {{Announcements}}
all announcements [[All Announcements]]
old announcements page {{Headlines}}
headlines {{What_The_News_Headlines}}
volunteers {{Volunteer_Headlines}}
developing [[Stories under construction]]

about templates

  • here an overview of all templates in the system.
  • here an overview of all categories in the system.

test articles


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