Template:votes
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Planned, running, and recent votes
| Ends | Title | Status/Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 30 | Make No personal attacks an official policy |  8  24  9 |
| (=1) | (=41) |
- The following documentation is located at Template:votes/documentation.
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox (diff)
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.