About the Home Page

Screenshot of the Gnomon Chronicles Home Page for 30 July 2023. Not shown here: Favorites and page footer.

The Gnomon Chronicles Home Page — or Main Page, to use MediaWiki's term — comprises several sections, with most of these sections using templates to display different content for each day of the the year.

That is, there are 365 "Better Than News" templates, one for each day of the year, with today's template display near the top of the Home Page.

Edit mode

The screenshot below shows the Gnomon Chronicles Home Page in edit mode.

Note the MediaWiki code in the editor window. This code displays the contents of the Better Than News template for today:

{{Better Than News/{{#time:F j|now - 6 hours}}}}

Edit mode.

Daily templates

The screenshot below shows the Better Than News template for 30 July 2023.

Screenshot of the Better Than News template for 30 July.)

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)

External links

Social media

• Post @ Twitter (30 July 2023)