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== Why this page exists, and how to change which stuff appears on the IFWiki front page==

See http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18202#p93842 for an explanation of this page. In short, I was trying to come up with a format that would do double-duty, so it could be used both as a record of past competition news (serving a similar function to the Current Events page), and as a source for current competition news on the front page, and be easier to maintain than the Current Events page was.

To adjust which section appears on the front page, just move the <nowiki>"<onlyinclude>"</nowiki> and <nowiki>"</onlyinclude>"</nowiki> tags so that they enclose the stuff that should be shown as "current news."

My thinking is that it'd make the most sense to include the dates for submission deadlines, voting deadlines, and results. I've left in the organizers that were already listed in the CompNews template, but removed "nomain" because it no longer seems to work in this format. I don't know if people want to keep including organizers or not. If so, we may want to limit mentions to the first time a competition is mentioned, rather than three times (submission deadline, voting deadline, results).

I didn't get any negative feedback on this idea either the first time I brought it up, or more recently, so I went ahead with it. Any thoughts welcome. [[User:Bg|bg]] ([[User talk:Bg|talk]]) 21:52, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

== Template for a new year==

Since it's probably faster to update the numbers than to create new headings from scratch, feel free to use this template to add a new year's worth of headings to the Competition news page.

To do this, go to the edit tab of this talk page, so that the headings below will show on separate lines. Then copy all the headings that appear between the "nowiki" tags. Then, go to the actual Competition news page, paste the headings, and change the numbers to the year you want.

<nowiki>

== 2018 ==

====January 2018====


====February 2018====


====March 2018====


====April 2018====


====May 2018====


====June 2018====


====July 2018====


====August 2018====


====September 2018====


====October 2018====


====November 2018====


====December 2018====

</nowiki>