Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/How to setup Recognized Content for portals

How to setup Recognized Content listings for portals

Recently, a bunch of sub-optimal Recognized Content listings were removed from the talk page of several portals (which may or may not include this one), indicating there is a lack of understanding about how the system works (see WP:RECOG for details). In a nutshell, the system should ideally be used to create listings on the main page of the portal, either directly, or via transclusions.

The typical setup is to create Portal:Foobar/Recognized content, and add

{{User:JL-Bot/Project content
 |template = WikiProject Foobar <!-- Or whatever associated WikiProject is relevant -->
 |content-featured-articles
 |content-good-articles
 |content-featured-pictures
 |content-former-featured-pictures
 |content-valued-pictures
 |columns = 3
 |heading = 3
 |icons
}}

This will create a listing similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Recognized content. The system can handle Did You Know, In the News, Vital articles and a slew of other high-profile articles if desired (see WP:RECOG for details), or have individual separate listings for featured articles, good articles, featured listed, etc. Such a listing of articles, which is kept up-to-date by the bot, can be used to generate a slideshow using {{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}. For example,

{{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow |1=Portal:The arts/Recognized content |paragraphs=1-2 |files=1 |limit=15 |more=Full article...}}

generates the "Featured article" section at Portal:The arts.

You can also create a separate Portal:Foobar/Did you know page to show the most recent blurbs, with

{{User:JL-Bot/Project content
 |template=WikiProject Foobar
 |content-did-you-know-articles
 |dyk-blurb=10 <!-- Or however many blurbs you want listed -->
 |sorting=date-default
 |date-order=decreasing
 |noheading
 |dates
}}

This will create a listing similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Did you know. After these pages are created, you can translude them on the Portal page by including {{Portal:Foobar/Recognized content}} and {{Portal:Foobar/Did you know}} where you want these listings displayed. If you need help setting these up, simply reply below with {{Re|Headbomb}} YOUR MESSAGE. ~~~~ and I'll get back to you. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:48, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]