Template:Ticker

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This is a template to include the ticker. It makes including a ticker for the standard case (Displaying last published articles one at a time) easier. If you want to do something really funky/weird/unusual with the ticker system, see the comments in mediawiki:ticker2.js or ask user:Bawolff.

This is using the second incarnation of the ticker system.

Basic usage. {{ticker|Africa}} displays all published articles in cat Africa. {{ticker}} displays the latest published news. See User:Bawolff/sandbox/ticker for more funky examples of the ticker (ex. picture slideshow).

Parameters

• multiple=
  • needed if more then one ticker on page
  • if not specified defaults to single
  • single means one ticker
  • first is for first if more then one ticker
  • other is for others not called first
• engine=
  • engine type
  • fade (slightly buggy on some browsers)
  • std (default)
  • none
• cat1= (or first unamed parameter)
  • category name to make ticker more specific (for example Africa)
• speed=
  • as decimal (0.1 = 1/10th, 2 = 2x, etc)
• customSrc=
  • list of ticker items
• options=
  • extra ticker options or class. see [[mediawiki:ticker2.js
• left_text=, right_text=, link_text=, link=
  • change the intro string. left is normal text to left, right is to the right, link_text in middle
  • text is urlencoded so no need to escape anything (use options= if you need to encode a plus sign)
  • link is local page name (ex Main_Page). replace spaces with underscore (_)