Wikinews:Template messages/General

Original reporting

Type	To display	Where
{{Original reporting}} Talk, Edit		Bottom of article. Not for interviews.
{{Interview}} Talk, Edit		Bottom of article. Used for exclusive wikinews interviews.

date/byline

Date format is DD Month-name YYYY (e.g. January 22, 2025)

Type	To display	Where
{{date|January 22, 2025}} Talk, Edit	January 22, 2025	Top of article. For most articles
{{dateline|date=January 22, 2025|Location=place}} Talk, Edit	January 22, 2025 place –	Top of article. May (doesn't have to) be used for original reporting instead of {{Date}}

Wikinews bureau/region/topic templates

Layouts to automate, navigate, or simplify displays of articles for bureaus, region-focused, or topic-focused article aggregations.

Layouts

These are really too long to display each here, so links are included to example pages. This list is incomplete

Type	To display	Where
{{LocationLatestNews}} Talk, Edit	→ see template.	After masthead/header info.
{{Region news}} Talk, Edit	→ see template.	After masthead/header info

Calendars

The documentation and usage of the base calendar templates, which are used to link to the archives.

Monthly Calendars

JanuaryCalendar FebruaryCalendar MarchCalendar

AprilCalendar MayCalendar JuneCalendar

JulyCalendar AugustCalendar SeptemberCalendar

OctoberCalendar NovemberCalendar DecemberCalendar

Base calendar templates

31 day	30 day	29 day	28 day
Template:31daymonth0 Template:31daymonth1 Template:31daymonth2 Template:31daymonth3 Template:31daymonth4 Template:31daymonth5 Template:31daymonth6	Template:30daymonth0 Template:30daymonth1 Template:30daymonth2 Template:30daymonth3 Template:30daymonth4 Template:30daymonth5 Template:30daymonth6	Template:29daymonth0 Template:29daymonth1 Template:29daymonth2 Template:29daymonth3 Template:29daymonth4 Template:29daymonth5 Template:29daymonth6	Template:28daymonth0 Template:28daymonth1 Template:28daymonth2 Template:28daymonth3 Template:28daymonth4 Template:28daymonth5 Template:28daymonth6
Template:month header

other Calendars

Template	description	Code
Wednesday 22 January 05:45 UTC	Daily calendar. with date and time	{{Date and time cal}} Also has a variaty of options. see documentation.

Mention of wikimedia or its projects

Type	To display	Where
{{Template:WikimediaMention}} Talk, Edit	This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.	Top of article that mentions Wikipedia, Wikimedia etc.