Template:NotifyPOTD
Featured picture scheduled for POTD
Hi Example,
This is to let you know that File:Viviparus georgianus 02.jpg, a featured picture you uploaded or nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for May 21, 2024. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2024-05-21. [Optional comments here.] If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! ~~
Viviparus georgianus, commonly known as the banded mystery snail, is a species of large freshwater snail in the family Viviparidae, the river snails. It is native to North America, generally found from the northeastern United States to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, and thrives in eutrophic lentic environments such as lakes, ponds and some low-flow streams. The snail has two distinct sexes and reproduces more than once in a lifetime, with females laying eggs singly in albumen-filled capsules. It feeds on diatom clusters found on silt and mud substrates, but it may also require the ingestion of some grit to be able to break down algae. This image shows five views of a 2.1 cm high (0.83 in) V. georgianus shell, originally collected in the U.S. state of Georgia and now in the collection of the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe in Germany. Photograph credit: H. Zell
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Usage
This template can be used to notify uploaders and nominators of a featured picture scheduled for POTD by placing a message at the bottom of their user talk pages. This is most easily done by employing the "New section" link at the top of the page and substituting the template using the code below, leaving the subject field blank since the template already generates a heading. There are four unnamed parameters (three required, one optional) and two named parameters (both optional).
Example usage
- Blurb layout (default):
{{ subst:NotifyPOTD | [Salutation] | [File:]Example.png | 2024-05-21 [| Optional comments] [| display=blurb] }}
- Thumbnail layout:
{{ subst:NotifyPOTD | [Salutation] | [File:]Example.png | 2024-05-21 [| Optional comments] | display=thumb [| size=200px] }}
- The first parameter (required) provides a customizable salutation, which defaults to "Hi [username]," if left blank (this is done by retaining the pipe character so that it will still be passed as the first parameter).
- The second parameter (required) is the file name of the featured picture. The prefix
File:
can either be included or omitted. If this is a multiple POTD (involving a random selection of more than one related image), providing the inputmultiple
in place of a file name will generate a slightly different wording to reflect this. All featured pictures that form part of a multiple POTD normally have the same uploader or nominator (possibly the same user). - The third parameter (required) is the date of the scheduled POTD appearance, which can be given in any valid format, but YYYY-MM-DD is preferred, as above.
- The fourth parameter (optional) provides a space for additional comments about the POTD selection. No text is added if the parameter is undefined or left blank.
- The parameter
|action=
(optional) replaces the phrase "uploaded or nominated". - The parameter
|display=
(optional) takes two possible values:blurb
, which displays the standard layout of the POTD with the blurb as seen on the Main Page underneath the message, andthumb
, which displays the POTD image as a thumbnail floating on the right with the article name as the caption. The blurb layout is displayed by default if this parameter is undefined. An example of these two layouts can be seen on the testcases page.- The parameter
|size=
(optional) can further be used to control the dimensions of the image in the thumbnail layout; if undefined, the default thumbnail size as set in the user preferences is used.
- The parameter
See also
- Template:UpcomingPOTD (for article talk pages)