Template talk:POTD 

Template:POTD is permanently protected from editing, as it is a heavily used or visible template. Substantial changes should be proposed here, and made by administrators if the proposal is uncontroversial, or has been discussed and is supported by consensus. Use {{editprotected}} to attract the attention of an administrator in such cases.This template does not have a documentation subpage. If the template page contains categories, interwiki links or usage notes, move these to Template:POTD/doc. If the template does not require documentation, add |doc=no to this template ({{permprot}}).

Steps for converting regular Template:Pic of the day format to condensed Template:POTD format.

  1. Remove width=600 tag,
  2. Change colspan="2" to colspan="1"
  3. Wipe text (save title),
  4. add |---- just below pic line,
  5. copy colspan line below |----,
  6. add title with <br> tag

Contents

How is the POTD Determined?

Does someone manually create the POTD?

Check out Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates Dark Shikari 13:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Recent unpleasantness

A weird record lock in the database was breaking the ability to edit this page. I'm not totally sure what the cause of this was, but I've worked around it for now by trimming a link record that lead to it. --Brion 23:07, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you! Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 06:33, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Broken front page

Something has broken this template resulting in the following text on the front page: [[Template:POTD/Error: invalid time|Template:POTD/Error: invalid time]] Collabi 19:48, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

beat me to it. here's a screenshot just in case. http://x012.uploaderx.net/x/wikierror.PNG -Indolences 02:15, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Every time I see this report and come by to look at it, it seems to have fixed itself. I updated the Main Page code to skip the intermediate {{POTD protected}} template and go straight to the day's template, which might eliminate that error. howcheng {chat} 06:50, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Hyphen

Could an administrator please correct the hyphen after Archive to a dash? Thanks. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 10:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Done. howcheng {chat} 16:37, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, Howcheng! Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 01:20, 13 July 2007 (UTC)