Template:Portal description/doc

Purpose

Adds standardized WP:Short description metadata to the portal.

Usage

{{Portal description}}

Output

Code this will output:

{{Short description|Wikipedia portal for content related to {{PAGENAME}}}}

Resulting description:

Wikipedia's portal for exploring content related to Portal title

Parameter

The parameter |topic= or |1= can be used to override the default topic display, which is the base pagename. This is primarily to disambiguate or clarity; while our portal names are as concise as we can make them while still being recognizable, this is not always ideal, descriptively.

Example:

Portal:English would get a default description of "Wikipedia portal for content related to English", which might be confusing to some readers (English culture and people? English history?).

Code:

{{Portal description|the English language}}
or
{{Portal description}}

Do not add a separate {{Short description}} template to the portal in attempt to override the default output of this template; use this template's parameter instead, or the page will have two conflicting short descriptions. If a different style of short description is necessary, replace {{Portal description}} with {{Short description}}, in which the full short description is required as the parameter.

Viewing short descriptions

To temporarily or permanently turn on inline display of short description content on Wikipedia pages, see Template:Short description/doc#Testing.

See also

• Wikipedia:Short description
• Template:Short description