![]() | This template adds an automatically generated short description. If the automatic short description is not optimal, replace it by adding {{Short description}} at the top of the article. |
Adds standardized WP:Short description metadata to the portal.
{{Short description|Wikipedia portal for content related to {{PAGENAME}}}}
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.
{{Portal description|the English language}}
{{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.
By default, this template preserves the case of the portal's page name, e.g. "Portal:Dogs" would result in the not-quite-valid short description "Wikipedia portal for content related to Dogs". The |lc=
parameter, set to any value, will lower-case the full page name, so "Portal:Dogs" with |lc=yes
results in the short description "Wikipedia portal for content related to dogs".
To temporarily or permanently turn on inline display of short description content on Wikipedia pages, see Template:Short description/doc#Testing.