Template:COinS/doc

Usage
This template inserts data using the COinS microformat into a page. COinS data makes it easier to correctly cite Wikinews in an academic work. It takes three parameters, y (the year of publication, as a four-digit number, e.g. 2011), m (the month of publication, as a number, e.g. 01), and d (the day of publication, as a number, e.g. 31). If these are not included, it defaults to the date of the last revision.

Hence, it takes the format: .

Alternatively, it can accept a date, in any format (YYYY-MM-DD preferred), via the date parameter. Hence would (hopefully) give the same output as the example above, as would

It gives no visible output to most users (it has the span style ). Some users (such as those using text-based browsers, e.g. Lynx) will be served a small non-breaking space with some ugly title text.

This page contains COinS data using the current date, as a test of the mechanism.