Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25763804-20150202073654/@comment-131168-20150202104406

There are a few ways one could go about this.

It's in a template in a template for a segment on the main page, but it looks like the most important part of Wookieepedia's daily quote thing is this line:

which makes it pull content from a page, the name of the page depending on the day/month/year. So right now it's pulling from the page "Wookieepedia:Quote_of_the_Day/2_February_2015". You could modify this a bit if you wanted the same quotation to show up every year on the same day or whatever. This is a pretty simple thing to set up, and all the daily quotes would be easy to find and edit. The downside is setting up many many different pages with a little bit of content each.

A second way that would probably be a bit more complicated to set up the first time, would be to have everything stored in one module, and have it display a different portion depending on the day. Advantage here is that all the quotes can be found on one page, easier to do mass edits, things like that. More hassle to set up pages to view quotes for other days, though.

EDIT: Worth noting, I use both of these for different situations. For a quote system, the first method is probably easier. I use the second for a birthday system, but for that particular situation there are additional things it's easier to do that way that aren't important for a daily quote or a "this day in history" list.