Template:Service awards/doc

Usage

Basic Template Usage

To display the template, just place {{service awards|year=[year]|month=[month]|day=[day]|edits=[edits]}} on the relevant page where the item in squared brackets is replaced by the relevant value.

Parameter	Definition	Default Value
Year	Starting year	2001
Month	Starting month	1
Day	Starting date	15
Edits	Number of user edits	984088

{{service awards|year=1995|month=1|day=15|edits=2000000}}

This editor is a Ultimate Editor and is entitled to display this Meitnerium Editor Star.

Standard Options

This template has various options in order to customise the template.

The location parameter is used to specify the location of the template.

Format	Parameter Value
Left	left
Center	center
Right	right

{{service awards|year=1995|month=1|day=15|edits=2000000|location=left}}

This editor is a Ultimate Editor and is entitled to display this Meitnerium Editor Star.

{{service awards|year=1995|month=1|day=15|edits=2000000|location=center}}

This editor is a Ultimate Editor and is entitled to display this Meitnerium Editor Star.

{{service awards|year=1995|month=1|day=15|edits=2000000|location=right}}

This editor is a Ultimate Editor and is entitled to display this Meitnerium Editor Star.

The format parameter is used to specify the type of template used.

Format	Parameter Value
Medal	medal
Book	book
Medal Userbox	ubxmedal
Book Userbox	ubxbook
Ribbon	ribbon

{{service awards|year=1995|month=1|day=15|edits=2000000|format=medal}}

This editor is a Ultimate Editor and is entitled to display this Meitnerium Editor Star.

{{service awards|year=1995|month=1|day=15|edits=2000000|format=book}}

This editor is an Ultimate Editor and is entitled to display this Complete Book of Knowledge with Secret Appendix and Free Errata Sheet.

{{service awards|year=1995|month=1|day=15|edits=2000000|format=ubxmedal}}

	This editor is a Ultimate Editor and is entitled to display this Meitnerium Editor Star.

{{service awards|year=1995|month=1|day=15|edits=2000000|format=ubxbook}}

	This editor is an Ultimate Editor and is entitled to display this Complete Book of Knowledge with Secret Appendix and Free Errata Sheet.

{{service awards|year=1995|month=1|day=15|edits=2000000|format=ribbon}}

The size parameter is used to specify whether to include the frame and caption. Add "size=frameless" to display just the picture on its own if this is desired; otherwise leave out the parameter so the frame and caption will be included.

Parameter	Definition	Default Value
location	location of template	left
Format	Type of template desired	medal
Size	Size of template	frame

Note: the location parameter is used only in the medal, book and ribbon formats and the size parameter is used only in the medal and book formats. They will have no effect on the other formats and therefore these parameters should be left out (not blank) if other formats are selected.

Caption Customisation

The caption on the template can be customised using these parameters. The caption has two auto updating sections: one for the editor's title and one for the editor's award. The three caption parameters specify the text either side of these auto updating sections and the punctuation parameter specifies what punctuation character to use at the end of the caption.

Parameter	Definition	Default Value
Caption1	Message on template	This editor is
Caption2	Message on template	and is entitled to display this
Caption3	Message on template	(blank)
Punctuation	Message on template	(full stop)

 {{service awards|year=1995|month=1|day=15|edits=2000000|caption1=Hello everyone, I'm|caption2=and I'm now going to show off my|caption3=to the whole world|punctuation=!!!}} 

Hello everyone, I'm a Ultimate Editor and I'm now going to show off my Meitnerium Editor Star​ ​to the whole world!!!

Note: the caption and punctuation parameters will have no effect on the ribbon format and therefore these parameters should be left out (not blank) if this format is selected.

Related pages

• Service awards