Template:Doctor Who Wiki/Aotm

Instructions for {{Doctor Who Wiki/Aotm}}

This is the part of the Article of the Minute series of templates that is actually placed on the main page. It has virtually no user serviceable parts. It contains merely the mathematical randomiser that is used to figure out which of the aotm templates should then be called. The only interaction an admin needs to have with this template is to increment the base number as more of the aotm templates are created. Virtually the entirety of this template is:

{{aotm/{{#expr:{{random|26}} + 1}}}}

As of 13 June 2012, there are 27 different aotm templates. Admin should increment the number in the {{random}} statement to be one less than the true number of aotm templates. (The "+1" math recognises the fact that a possible result of the expression is 0, but that the first aotm template is {{aotm/1}}.)

Article of the minute

Film can containing the recovered second episode of The Evil of the Daleks

Missing episodes are those televised episodes of Doctor Who which no longer exist in their entirety. They are a phenomenon of the early days of television broadcast in the United Kingdom, when the price of the recording medium itself made it prohibitively expensive to retain recorded episodes of shows that were very unilikely to see re-transmission. Because contracts in the 1960s and early 1970s were written in such a way that future use was essentially inconceivable, many episodes of Doctor Who — and many other shows — were simply taped over. Technically, all 1960s episodes, and a number of Pertwee episodes are missing in that their original masters were intentionally wiped or outright junked by the BBC. However, thanks to the practice of making 16mm telerecordings of the masters for overseas sales, many 1960s episodes were in fact retained as film prints. Although most William Hartnell episodes do exist, the majority of Patrick Troughton stories do not, due largely to the fact that Second Doctor stories did not sell as broadly worldwide as his predecessor's. 'Read more... ✍

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