Template:Koha historical/doc

Usage

This template is a complementary addition for adding underneath the Obsolete template to designate past events or actions which for events or activity from a past period.

Content for which applying the template is appropriate includes events such as long past meetings, hackfests, conferences, bug squashing days, etc. from before some recent period; and includes activities such as long past RFCs. The long past period before some more recent period should probably be expected to be a few years ago and anything included in some currently officially supported long term stable version of Koha should probably be considered recent enough to not be long past and obsolete historical.

Appropriate use should be limited to content which would not become current by updating because it is tied to the past period when the event or activity happened.

Archived content is currently distinguished by searching for pages with the Obsolete template and it is important to not add the Koha historical template without adding the Obsolete template just before the Koha historical template at the beginning of the page.

Basics

• To provide a last-updated date, use the named parameter "last" or "date", i.e. . This should only be used for substantive updates, not things like bot tweaks or typo fixes.
• To provide a briefer form of the text, use
• To provide an explanatory comment, use . If you want to point to a successor page, use {{Superseded}} instead of .
• For related Koha Wiki header templates, see Category:Koha cleanup templates.
• Please note that this template is not appropriate for portals, which exist for the purpose of informing readers on a given topic and, as such, can never truly be "inactive".
• It is also not appropriate for inactive WikiProjects which are dealt with according to the WikiProject Council/Guide; these should be tagged with {{WikiProject status|Defunct}} or {{WikiProject status|Inactive}}.

Adding shortcuts

• In addition, a shortcut can be added to this template by using the following syntax:

• Up to 5 shortcuts can be added to this template in this fashion:

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Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Last	last	The date of the last substantative update to this page.	Date	suggested
Date	date	Formerly an alias for last.	Date	deprecated
Type	type	The type of page this is, eg. policy, guideline, script, etc. Example policy	Line	suggested
Brief	brief	Whether to use a shortened message. Default no	Boolean	optional
Comment	comment	A message explaining why the page is obsolete	String	suggested

See also

• {{WikiProject status}}
• {{failed}} for proposals that were never adopted
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Wikipedia namespace for a listing of Wikipedia namespace banners.