User:Assume a=a/holydaze
This template is to be used for storing holiday decorations that have appeared on the recent changes page in the past, and are likely to be used again. This page is included on MediaWiki:Recentchangestext.
[edit] Use
Place the name of the current holiday in between the comments <!-- HOLIDAY HERE --> and <!-- END HOLIDAY --> at the top of the page. For no holiday, leave it blank. The following holiday names are valid and will give a message:
- Conservapedia boycott
- New Year's Day
- Martin Luther King Day
- Groundhog Day
- St. Valentine's Day
- St. Valentine's Day 2
- Vernal Equinox
- Easter
- May Day
- Bastille Day
- Talk Like a Pirate Day
- Guy Fawkes Day
- Christmas
- Winter Solstice
- Boxing Day
- Kwanzaa
The following holiday names are valid, but do not yet have a message and will simply say No message for this holiday yet when used. Please add an appropriate message for these holidays by editing Template:Holydaze/inner.
- Passover
- April Fool's Day
- Summer Solstice
- Autumnal Equinox
- All Hallows Eve
- Armistice Day
- Remembrance Day
- Veteran's Day
- Pearl Harbor Day
- Chanukah
[edit] Auto mode
This template has an option to automatically display certain holidays. To turn automated mode on, change the auto parameter's value to yes. When auto mode is on, the messages for most of the holidays will display on the correct days automatically as long as the first parameter is blank. If there is already a holiday filled in for the first parameter, it will always override auto mode.
[edit] Adding new messages
To add a new message to this template, edit Template:Holydaze/inner and add the new message under the correct holiday name, making sure to preserve the formatting. If you're not sure about a message or not sure how to add it properly, discuss it at Template talk:Holydaze.
[edit] The messages
For reference, the list of messages is shown below. Note that changing this does not change the template output; the actual messages used are found at Template:Holydaze/inner.
[edit] Conservapedia boycott
[edit] New Year's Day
Jan 1, usually. Apr 1, sometimes.
[edit] Martin Luther King Day
Birthday: Jan 15 Observed: 3rd Monday (Jan 21 in 2008) Use template: all days inclusive.
[edit] Groundhog Day
Feb 2 Sounds like sausage.
[edit] St. Valentine's Day
Feb 14th
edit: I like this one, above, more than the other. Imade the ass heart bigger! human
or perhaps:
[edit] Vernal Equinox
Mar 21/22
Whee, a 12 hour day everywhere!
[edit] Passover
watch the moon, dates may vary wildly.
[edit] Esther, er, Easter
watch the moon, dates may vary wildly.
(and hot crossed buns!)
[edit] April Fool's Day
April first. Use new year's day decorations?
[edit] May Day
[edit] Summer Solstice
June 21/22
[edit] Bastille Day
14 Juli vive la revolution!
[edit] Talk Like a Pirate Day
September 19
[edit] Autumnal Equinox
Sep 21/22
[edit] All Hallows Eve
Oct 31 needs an awesome pumpkin image
[edit] Guy Fawkes Day
Celebrating the only man ever to enter the Houses of Parliament with honest intentions. Remember, remember, the fifth of November; Gunpowder, treason, and plot!
[edit] Armistice Day/Remembrance Day/Veteran's Day
11 Nov
[edit] Pearl Harbor Day
Dec 7 - keep those planes off the ground!
[edit] Chanukah
Dates vary by year.
[edit] Christmas
25 Dec; 7 Jan.
[edit] Winter Solstice
[edit] Boxing day only
Dec 26
[edit] Kwanzaa
Dec 26-31