Template:Portal description/doc

Purpose
Adds standardized WP:Short description metadata to the portal.

Output

 * Code this will output:


 * Resulting description:
 * Wikipedia's portal for exploring content related to Portal title

Parameter
The parameter topic or 1 can be used to override the default topic display, which is the base pagename. This is primarily to disambiguate or clarity; while our portal names are as concise as we can make them while still being recognizable, this is not alway ideal, descriptively.


 * Example:
 * Portal:English would get a default description of "Wikipedia's portal for exploring content related to English", which might be confusing to some readers (English culture and people? English history?).

or
 * Code:

add a separate template to the portal in attempt to override the default output of this template; use this template's parameter instead, or the page will have two conflicting short descriptions. If a different style of short description is necessary, replace with, in which the full short description is required as the parameter.

Viewing short descriptions
To temporarily or permanently turn on inline display of short description content on Wikipedia pages, see Template:Short description/doc.