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wikipedia_on_this_day

Events that happened on today's calendar date in history, sourced from Wikipedia's on-this-day feed (selected highlights, events, births, deaths, holidays, or all). Use wikipedia_featured for today's featured article or wikipedia_random for an arbitrary page.

KindSafetyShapes
cachedSafelinked_text_block, text_block, text, timeline

Options

Section titled “Options”
OptionTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
kind"selected" | "events" | "births" | "deaths" | "holidays" | "all"no"selected"Which slice of the on-this-day feed to fetch. selected is the curated highlights.
limitinteger (1..=30)no5Maximum number of events to display.
langstring (Wikipedia language code, e.g. "en" / "ja")no"en"Wikipedia language edition to query.

Compatible renderers

Section titled “Compatible renderers”
ShapeRenderers
linked_text_blocklist_links
text_blockanimated_boot, animated_postfx, animated_scanlines, animated_splitflap, animated_wave, list_plain
textanimated_boot, animated_figlet_morph, animated_postfx, animated_scanlines, animated_splitflap, animated_typewriter, animated_wave, text_ascii, text_plain
timelineanimated_boot, animated_postfx, animated_scanlines, animated_splitflap, animated_wave, list_timeline

Preview

Section titled “Preview”

linked_text_block via list_links

Section titled “linked_text_block via list_links”
1969 — Apollo 11 lands on the Moon      
1492 — Columbus departs Palos de la Fron
1989 — Tim Berners-Lee proposes the Worl
                                        
                                        

[[widget]]
id = "wikipedia_on_this_day"
fetcher = "wikipedia_on_this_day"
render = "list_links"

text_block via list_plain

Section titled “text_block via list_plain”
1969 — Apollo 11 lands on the Moon      
1492 — Columbus departs Palos de la Fron
1989 — Tim Berners-Lee proposes the Worl
                                        

[[widget]]
id = "wikipedia_on_this_day"
fetcher = "wikipedia_on_this_day"
render = "list_plain"

text via text_ascii

Section titled “text via text_ascii”
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 █  ▜▄█ █▄▖ ▜▄█             █ █ ▜▞▜▖▟▀▙  █   █  ▟▀▙      █   █       █  ▝▀▙ █▀▙ 
 █   ▗▛ █ █  ▗▛             █▀█ ▐▙▟▘█ █  █   █  █ █      █   █       █  ▟▀█ █ █ 
▀▀▀ ▝▀  ▝▀▘ ▝▀              ▀ ▀ ▟▙  ▝▀▘ ▝▀▘ ▝▀▘ ▝▀▘     ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀     ▝▀▘ ▝▀▝▘▀ ▀ 
                                                                                

[[widget]]
id = "wikipedia_on_this_day"
fetcher = "wikipedia_on_this_day"
render = "text_ascii"

text via text_plain

Section titled “text via text_plain”
1969 — Apollo 11 lands on the Moon      
                                        

[[widget]]
id = "wikipedia_on_this_day"
fetcher = "wikipedia_on_this_day"
render = "text_plain"

timeline via list_timeline

Section titled “timeline via list_timeline”
1968-01-02 │ 1969 — Apollo 11 lands on the Moon   
1966-01-02 │ 1492 — Columbus departs Palos de la F
                                                  
                                                  
                                                  
                                                  
                                                  
                                                  

[[widget]]
id = "wikipedia_on_this_day"
fetcher = "wikipedia_on_this_day"
render = "list_timeline"