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Latest revision as of 22:39, 18 May 2013
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:
Don't like this article? Reload the page for another one!
{{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
Introduced in the 1987 Doctor Who television story, Delta and the Bannermen, the Chimeron were a race of humanoids who were nearly wiped out by the Bannermen. They were notable for their unusual maturation cycle, which saw them grow from green, wrinkly, barely-humanoid babies into adults that were largely indistinguishable from humans. Read more... ✍Don't like this article? Reload the page for another one!