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'''The Featured Article section of Weezerpedia''' provides a short summary of an article, and is changed every month. Weezerpedia depends on its volunteer editors to keep our Main Page dynamic and current. We need your help finding and formatting new content for each month's featured article!  
'''The Featured Article section of Weezerpedia''' provides a short summary of an article, and is changed every month. Weezerpedia depends on its volunteer editors to keep our Main Page dynamic and current. We need your help finding and formatting new content for each month's featured article!  


==Instructions==
=Instructions=
===1. Pick a month that hasn't been edited yet===
==Getting started==
[[:Category:Incomplete featured content]] is a list of months that haven't been claimed by an editor yet - take a look!
===Choose a month===
Check out the table on the [[Weezerpedia:Featured article#"I want to edit the featured article..."|Weezerpedia:Featured article]] page, and find a month that isn't complete yet. [[:Category:Incomplete featured content]] lists all featured content pages that need editing.


Let's say, for purpose of an example, that August 2022 hasn't been picked yet. When you navigate to it, it will look something like this:
Let's say you select '''March 2023''', for example.
 
===Choose an article===
[[Image:Incomplete featured article screenshot.png|500px|left|thumb]]<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
===2. Choose an article===
Choose an article that you would like to showcase on the Main Page of Weezerpedia for the month you've picked. '''Be sure that it is [[Weezerpedia:Style Guide|up to Weezerpedia's standards]]'''. If it isn't, edit it!
Choose an article that you would like to showcase on the Main Page of Weezerpedia for the month you've picked. '''Be sure that it is [[Weezerpedia:Style Guide|up to Weezerpedia's standards]]'''. If it isn't, edit it!
====What should I feature?====
====What should I feature?====
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*'''The only pages that you can not choose as a Featured Article are song pages or images.'''
*'''The only pages that you can not choose as a Featured Article are song pages or images.'''


===3. Create the "Headline"===
L'''et's say we're going to feature ''[[Maladroit]]''.'''
There is a headline above every featured item [[Main Page]]. For articles, it reads ''Featured Article: <u>ARTICLE NAME</u>''. It's easy to set up.
====What you'll find on an "incomplete" featured page====
 
Prior to being edited by users, featured content pages are all created by site admin at the beginning of the calendar year and left "incomplete." Looks like this:
Click "Edit" on the month you've chosen to edit. The text you see should look like this:
[[Image:Featured video help 4.png|500px|left|thumb]]
{{clear}}


If you open up a page like this to edit it, you'll see:
<pre>
<pre>
{{Incomplete featured content}}
{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=March|pagetype=article|edited=}}
<noinclude>[[Category:Weezerpedia]] [[Category:Featured content August 2022]]</noinclude>
<onlyinclude><includeonly>{{Weezerpedia:Featured article February 2023}}</onlyinclude></includeonly>
</pre>
</pre>


That bottom line (everything between the "noinclude" tags) should stay in and should always be the ''last'' piece of text. It helps organize the page within the larger wiki, placing it in two "Categories."
Looks kinda confusing and strange! Don't worry. All you need to do is...
==Copy from a previous month==
The easiest way to feature an article is to update the wikitext from a previous month. You can pull the formatting from a past month, replace a few details, and you will have a readymade page!


Delete the text <nowiki>{{Incomplete featured content}}</nowiki> - that's the code that gave you the goofy Rivers-falling-down gif. Replace that text with:
Sticking with our example above, we'd navigate to [[Weezerpedia:Featured article February 2023]], hit edit, and copy everything there. We'd then dash back to the March 2023 page, and replace all the content there with the wikitext on our clipboard.


===Update the featured page header===
Our page will now look like this (only an excerpt included for sake of saving space on this page):
<pre>
<pre>
{{Featured article headline|[[YOUR ARTICLE NAME]]}}
<noinclude>{{Template:Featured page header|month=February|year=2023|pagetype=article|edited=yes}}</noinclude>
</pre>
{{Featured article code|articlename=Simpleton|imagename=Image:Simpletoncoverfullsize.jpg|imagesize=200px}}
'''''Simpleton''''' a fictitious fourth [[Weezer]] album created by Weezer fans as a prank in [[2003]] through online message boards.


If we use ''[[Maladroit]]'' as an example...
....


<pre>{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}</pre>
{{Featured article links|Simpleton}}
</pre>


The page will look like this:
The "featured page header" template gives this page its basic structure. You only need to update one small piece of it: change the month name to the month of the page you're editing:
 
<pre>
{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}
{{Template:Featured page header|year=2023|month=March|pagetype=article|edited=yes}}
 
</pre>
===4. Pause to Preview===
===Update the "Featured article code"===
To quote [[User:Deckra]]:
====Headline====
[[Image:Preview preview preview.png|thumb|left|300px]]<br><br><br><br><br><br>
There is a headline above every featured item on the [[Main Page]], as well as an accompanying image. These are easy to set up with our copy-and-pasted wikitext. Look to the second line of wikitext on your page. Using our previous example, it looks like this:
It's always a good idea to preview your pages as you go. Take a moment to pause and make sure everything is coming out okay so far. There are three buttons at the bottom of your editing box - click the middle one!
<pre>
[[Image:Preview button.png|thumb|left|300px]]<br><br><br><br><br><br>
{{Featured article code|articlename=Simpleton|imagename=Image:Simpletoncoverfullsize.jpg|imagesize=200px}}
Everything look okay?
</pre>
===5. Add an image===
Simply update with your new article name (we picked ''Maladroit'', remember?)
If the answer was yes, the next step is to find an image to accompany your article. You can do this by adding the following code right below your "headline" code:
<pre>
<pre>
[[Image:IMAGE NAME.FILE TYPE|IMAGE SIZEpx|right|link=ARTICLE NAME]]
{{Featured article code|articlename=Maladroit|imagename=Image:Simpletoncoverfullsize.jpg|imagesize=200px}}
</pre>
</pre>
 
====Image====
That is probably a bit confusing to look at, but it will make sense when we plug stuff in, using ''Maladroit'' as our example:
The next step is to find an image to accompany your article. You can do this by editing the rest of the "featured article code".
Old version:
<pre>
<pre>
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]
{{Featured article code|articlename=Maladroit|imagename=Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|imagesize=200px}}
</pre>
</pre>


That is probably a bit confusing to look at, so here's what you just did:
*"Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg" tells the wiki to pull up the ''Maladroit'' album art.
*"Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg" tells the wiki to pull up the ''Maladroit'' album art.
*"200px" renders the image at a particular size - 200 pixels in height!{{citation needed}}
*"200px" renders the image at a particular size - 200 pixels in height!{{citation needed}}
**(we're gonna want to preview this once we've tried it - sometimes 200px is too big and you can adjust as needed)
*"right" is like right-justifying text in Google Docs - it makes the image stick to the right side of the page.
*"link=Maladroit" is some fancy coding. It makes it so when someone clicks the image, it takes them to the Maladroit page! Without that coding, clicking the image would take you to [[:File:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|this page]].


Take a look:<br>
'''Note:''' if you don't include ''<nowiki>Image:</nowiki>'' before your image's name, your edit won't work right.
-->
====But my page doesn't have a photo!====
That's okay. Take a look through [[Gallery]] and find something relevant. If you're having trouble finding something useful, feel free to ask for assistance in the Discord help channel.
===Pause to Preview===
To quote [[User:Deckra]]:
[[Image:Preview preview preview.png|thumb|left|300px]]<br><br><br><br><br><br>
It's always a good idea to preview your pages as you go. Take a moment to pause and make sure everything is coming out okay so far. There are three buttons at the bottom of your editing box - click the middle one!
[[Image:Preview button.png|thumb|left|300px]]
{{clear}}
Everything look okay?


[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
===Add text from the article===
 
====Lede====
====5.1 But my page doesn't have a photo!====
That's okay. Take a look through [[Gallery]] and find something relevant. If you're having trouble finding something useful, feel free to ask for assistance in the Discord help channel.
===6. Article "lede"===
So far, our code looks like this:
So far, our code looks like this:
<pre>
<pre>
{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}
<noinclude>{{Template:Featured page header|month=March|year=2023|pagetype=article|edited=yes}}</noinclude>
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]
{{Featured article code|articlename=Maladroit|imagename=Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|imagesize=200px}}
<noinclude>[[Category:Weezerpedia]] [[Category:Featured content August 2022]]</noinclude>
'''''Simpleton''''' a fictitious fourth [[Weezer]] album created by Weezer fans as a prank in [[2003]] through online message boards.
 
....
 
{{Featured article links|Simpleton}}
</pre>
</pre>


It needs a "lede." Lede is fancy wiki/journalism talk for the first sentence of your article. We format it to draw the reader's attention there, bolding important terms:
We need to update the "lede." Lede is fancy wiki/journalism talk for the first sentence of your article. We format it to draw the reader's attention there, bolding important terms:


::'''Article Name''' is/are/was/were..."
::'''Article Name''' is/are/was/were..."
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<pre>
<pre>
{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}
<noinclude>{{Template:Featured page header|month=March|year=2023|pagetype=article|edited=yes}}</noinclude>
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]
{{Featured article code|articlename=Maladroit|imagename=Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|imagesize=200px}}
'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.
'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.
<noinclude>[[Category:Weezerpedia]] [[Category:Featured content August 2022]]</noinclude>
 
....
 
{{Featured article links|Simpleton}}
</pre>
</pre>


===7. Article body===
====Article body====
====7.1 Pick the text you want====
Here's where you get the most creative license as an editor. Pull content from your page that you think will help give a "nutshell" version of the topic. ''Maladroit'' is a longer article than most, so we can sift through it a bit to pull out the following:
Here's where you get the most creative license as an editor. Pull content from your page that you think will help give a "nutshell" version of the topic. ''Maladroit'' is a longer article than most, so we can sift through it a bit to pull out the following:


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'''This looks like shit, no? We need to...'''
'''This looks like shit, no? We need to...'''
====7.2 Make edits for style====
====Make edits for style====
There are a lot of things inside articles that we don't need on the main page. These include: infoboxes (those tables full of info at the top right hand corner of most pages), section headlines, track listings, "external link" sections, and "see also" sections.
There are a lot of things inside articles that we don't need on the main page. These include: infoboxes (those tables full of info at the top right hand corner of most pages), section headlines, track listings, "external link" sections, and "see also" sections.


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Once we've made all these clean-up edits, our whole article will look like this:
Once we've made all these clean-up edits, our whole article will look like this:
<pre>
<pre>
{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}
<noinclude>{{Template:Featured page header|month=March|year=2023|pagetype=article|edited=yes}}</noinclude>
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]
{{Featured article code|articlename=Maladroit|imagename=Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|imagesize=200px}}
'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.
'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.


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''Maladroit'' was the first Weezer album to feature current bassist [[Scott Shriner]], after the breakdown and departure of [[Mikey Welsh]]. It was also the first to contain a booklet with lyrics (which included a special message thanking Weezer boardies), and the first time a Weezer album ventured further than the standard tracklist of 10 songs.
''Maladroit'' was the first Weezer album to feature current bassist [[Scott Shriner]], after the breakdown and departure of [[Mikey Welsh]]. It was also the first to contain a booklet with lyrics (which included a special message thanking Weezer boardies), and the first time a Weezer album ventured further than the standard tracklist of 10 songs.
<noinclude>[[Category:Weezerpedia]] [[Category:Featured content August 2022]]</noinclude>
{{Featured article links|Simpleton}}
</pre>
</pre>


Starting to look less shitty! Here's what that comes out to when we hit preview:
Starting to look less shitty! Here's what that comes out to when we hit preview (omitting the featured page header):
 
----
{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}
{{Featured article code|articlename=Maladroit|imagename=Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|imagesize=200px}}
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]
'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.
'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.


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''Maladroit'' was the first Weezer album to feature current bassist [[Scott Shriner]], after the breakdown and departure of [[Mikey Welsh]]. It was also the first to contain a booklet with lyrics (which included a special message thanking Weezer boardies), and the first time a Weezer album ventured further than the standard tracklist of 10 songs.
''Maladroit'' was the first Weezer album to feature current bassist [[Scott Shriner]], after the breakdown and departure of [[Mikey Welsh]]. It was also the first to contain a booklet with lyrics (which included a special message thanking Weezer boardies), and the first time a Weezer album ventured further than the standard tracklist of 10 songs.
 
{{Featured article links|Simpleton}}
===8. Place the necessary links at the bottom the page===
----
===Place the necessary links at the bottom the page===
All featured content has some formatting at the bottom of the page. This is intended to:
All featured content has some formatting at the bottom of the page. This is intended to:
#Allow readers to "read more" and navigate to the full article being featured
#Allow readers to "read more" and navigate to the full article being featured
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It looks like this:
It looks like this:
[[Image:Featured article links screenshot.png|thumb|left|200px]]<br><br><br><br>
[[Image:Featured article links screenshot.png|thumb|left|200px]]
{{clear}}


The code you need to type out for this is super easy:
The code you need to type out for this is super easy:
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<pre>{{Featured article links|Maladroit}}</pre>
<pre>{{Featured article links|Maladroit}}</pre>


...will give you the little links you see at the far right:<br><br>
...will give you the little links you see at the far right:
{{clear}}
{{Featured article links|Maladroit}}
{{Featured article links|Maladroit}}


Putting the whole text together one more time, your finished edit will look like this:
Putting the whole text together one more time, your finished wikitext will look like this:


<pre>
<pre>
{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}
<noinclude>{{Template:Featured page header|month=March|year=2023|pagetype=article|edited=yes}}</noinclude>
[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|200px|right|link=Maladroit]]
{{Featured article code|articlename=Maladroit|imagename=Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|imagesize=200px}}
'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.
'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by [[Weezer]], released on [[May 14]], [[2002]]. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.


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''Maladroit'' was the first Weezer album to feature current bassist [[Scott Shriner]], after the breakdown and departure of [[Mikey Welsh]]. It was also the first to contain a booklet with lyrics (which included a special message thanking Weezer boardies), and the first time a Weezer album ventured further than the standard tracklist of 10 songs.
''Maladroit'' was the first Weezer album to feature current bassist [[Scott Shriner]], after the breakdown and departure of [[Mikey Welsh]]. It was also the first to contain a booklet with lyrics (which included a special message thanking Weezer boardies), and the first time a Weezer album ventured further than the standard tracklist of 10 songs.
{{Featured article links|Maladroit}}
{{Featured article links|Maladroit}}
<noinclude>[[Category:Weezerpedia]] [[Category:Featured content August 2022]]</noinclude>
</pre>
</pre>


<br>
=Extra mile steps=
==Update the featured article list==
Weezerpedia tries to keep organized records of the content that it features, and we currently do this for articles through the a simple chart. If you can update the chart, you'd be helping our site stay tidy!


===9. Tag the talk page, add the featured article category===
You can access the current year's featured article list [[Template:Featured article table {{CURRENTYEAR}}|here]].
Tag the talk page of the article that you are featuring with a Featured Article template. Every time an article is featured on Weezerpedia, a record must be made of it. This is done by typing the following text at the top of the talk page of an article:
===Table editing===
<pre>{{Featured article|MONTH NAME AND DAY|YEAR}}</pre>
Using [[Template:Featured article table 2023|2023]] as an example, the table should look like this:


Replace the ''MONTH NAME AND DAY'' and ''YEAR'' spaces with the appropriate information.
[[File:Featured article help.png|thumb|left|550px]]
 
{{clear}}
For example, if an article was distinguished as a Featured Article on February 14, 1992, the text entered would be:
 
<pre>{{Featured article|February 14|1992}}</pre>
 
and the template would look like:
 
{{Featured article|February 14|1992}}


The column names for this table are listed toward the top of the page, in that first batch of code. They are: ''Month'', ''Title'', and ''User''. Here's what the code looks like to fill in a new row of the table:
<pre>
|- this is a divider
| | [[Weezerpedia: Featured article MONTH YEAR|MONTH YEAR]]
| | article title
| | user
|-  this is a divider
</pre>
Filled in with details from our example above:
<pre>
|-
| |[[Weezerpedia: Featured article March 2023|March 2023]]
| |''[[Maladroit]]''
| | ~~~~
|-
</pre>


You also have to add this link to the bottom of the page you are featuring:
The four tildes above create a link to your user page, and provide a timestamp of the edit. The repeating of the month and year in the first row (<nowiki>[[Weezerpedia: Featured article March 2023|March 2023]]<nowiki>) create what's called a "piped link." Everything to the left of the bracket character (<nowiki>|</nowiki>) tells the wiki what page you want to link to, and everything to the right of the bracket becomes display text. The example above gives you this: [[Weezerpedia: Featured article March 2023|March 2023]].


<pre><nowiki>[[Category:Featured article]]</nowiki></pre>
===Preview, save===
Weezerpedia does this because the "previous featured articles" link that you added earlier is a link to this category page, and, if you don't add your page to that category, it won't appear in that list.
Here's what the above code (placed in its proper spot in the table wikitext from the above screenshot) will look like:
[[File:Featured article help 2.png|thumb|left|550px]]
{{clear}}


===10. Preview the page first===
Preview your version to make sure it looks okay!
Before you save anything, preview your page by clicking "Show preview." You're saving content that's going to appear on the Main Page, so it better be perfect!


===11. Pat yourself on the back!===
==Pat yourself on the back!==
Thank you for helping Weezerpedia! Weezerpedia can only grow if people like you help edit and contribute to it. Thanks for your effort!
Thank you for helping Weezerpedia! Weezerpedia can only grow if people like you help edit and contribute to it. Thanks for your effort!  


==See also==
==See also==
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