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Creates a short description for a Wikipedia page, which is displayed in search results and other locations. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template has custom formatting. Parameter Description Type Status Description 1 The short description of the article or 'none'. It should be limited to about 40 characters. Example Endangered species of South American fish Content required No ...
Alternatively, you can manually amend the {{Short description}} template in the source editor. Short descriptions cannot be added with the VisualEditor. If you are editing manually on desktop and do not have the gadget loaded, do not add a {{Short description}} solely because the template seems to be missing from the wikicode. Descriptions are ...
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The easiest way to add and edit short descriptions on desktop is to make use of Shortdesc helper.Alternatively, in the source code editor insert the short description template to the very top of the page, above all other article headers and templates.
When an explanation is desired for the conditions under which a short description is generated, e.g. when the short description template is wrapped with {{Namespace detect}}. Example when it is used in Wikipedia space: Content: optional: category: category: For meta-templates that generate short descriptions for a family of templates.
This template is used by {{Infobox officeholder}} to generate automatic short descriptions Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox ( create | mirror ) and testcases ( create ) pages. Subpages of this template .
Convenience template that returns the position of the phrase {{short description within the article wiki-text, or nothing if the phrase does not exist. It can take an optional parameter |title= (or the first unnamed parameter) which is the title of the page to test. The title defaults to the current page if not supplied.