Template:Transclude lead excerpt

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Transclude lead excerpt transcludes the lead of an article as an excerpt. It is designed for use in portals, stand-alone lists and outlines. It returns the text of the named article up to but excluding the first header, after removing:

• initial templates such as infoboxes, hatnotes and article improvement tags
• noinclude sections
• references and footnotes
• images, unless specifically retained

Usage

{{Transclude lead excerpt | 1= | paragraphs= | files= | fileargs= | more= | errors= }}

The template requires one parameter: the name of the page to be transcluded. Include a namespace where necessary. There are no other positional parameters, but there are some optional named parameters:

• A list of paragraphs such as paragraphs=1,3-5; the default is all paragraphs.
• A list of file (image) numbers such as files=1; the default is no images. Non-free images are removed.
• Arguments to pass to File: such as fileargs=left to move images to the left; the default is none.
• A link to the article itself such as more=(more); the default is no link. Short cut: more= produces Read more...
• errors= to allow Lua error messages to appear in the output

paragraphs= and files= each accept a comma-separated list containing numbers and/or number ranges in the format min-max. Alternatively, files= can accept the name of a single image, e.g. files=My image file.jpg. <section begin=Miscellaneous options />

Miscellaneous options

• keepSubsections=1 will cause Article#Section to retain any subsections of that section
• keepRefs=1 will keep references for display in a {{reflist}} or similar
• nobold=1 will cause bold text to be displayed in normal font

<section end=Miscellaneous options />

Page options

Each page to be transcluded may be specified either plain or as a wikilink, possibly piped. Links to sections also work, and extract the named section rather than the lead. Examples: Article; Article#Section; [[Article]]; [[Article#Section|A section of an article]]. (Any piped text will be ignored.)

Any of the above formats may be followed by option(s) separated by pipes, e.g. Article|paragraphs=2. Such options override any global options for the given page only. Note that the characters | and = have special meaning within calls to templates but can be escaped using {{!}} and {{=}} respectively. Examples: Article#Section{{!}}files{{=}}2; [[Article|Some page]]{{!}}files{{=}}3,4{{!}}more{{=}}Click here. (= need not be escaped if the parameter is explicitly numbered, e.g. 1=Article{{!}}files=2).

Special characters such as pipes within page options must be doubly escaped, replacing their double braces by {{((}} and {{))}}. For example, to set display Custom image.jpg on the left with a custom caption, set fileargs to left|Custom caption using Article{{!}}files{{=}}Custom image.jpg{{!}}fileargs{{=}}left{{((}}!{{))}}Custom caption. To add a wikilink within a caption, escape the link brackets and any pipe twice using {{!((}}, {{))!}} and possibly {{!}}, e.g. Caption with {{((}}!(({{))}}Pipe (computer science){{((}}!{{))}}piped{{((}}))!{{))}} link. This text can be achieved more simply using {{Doubly escaped wikilink}}, e.g. Caption with {{Doubly escaped wikilink|Pipe (computer science)|piped}} link.

See also

Similar templates also using Module:Excerpt:

• {{Transclude linked excerpt}}: chooses the article randomly from those linked from a page
• {{Transclude list item excerpt}}: chooses the article randomly from those listed on a page
• {{Transclude random excerpt}}: chooses the article randomly from a list
• {{Transclude selected excerpt}}: chooses the article from a list using an index such as the week number

The templates were discussed at Use of direct transclusion in portals and the newer portal transclusion templates.

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