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High dike

Just to make things different, instead of a random article a List came up. Entitled Hoogendijk, it is a short list of people with that surname (almost all of whom are Dutch, unsurprisingly). Lists are quite common on Wikipedia (forming 4.4% of all pages), so they will crop up now and then. Normally they do not require much editing at all, as the Page statistics for this list show with a grand total of 6 edits over 12 years.

In this case there is a little preamble giving some information on the etymology of the surname. Here we can add a wiki-link to the term dyke, just in case the reader is not clear as to what the term relates to, and the single reference is not in a template so that can be expanded and reformatted into a Cite Web template reference. So at least there is something to do.

The reference is mildly interesting as the page it links to is written in Dutch. So an infrequently used term is needed, |language=nl, which adds a descriptor to the citation. Also the names of the website and publisher of the web page are in Dutch, obvs, and, although it's not strictly necessary, I put translations for both (just the ones derived from translating the webpage in situ using Edge's Translate to English right-click option) in square brackets afterwards for each. If the title of the page had needed a translation I could have used a |trans-title= field but the |website= and |publisher= fields don't have matching translation fields. No matter. Finally the name of the publisher has a pipe (|) in it and, as the wiki markup engine recognises this as something other than a character to display, the two instances have to be included in <nowiki></nowiki> tags to prevent the wiki rendering engine from trying to do something other than just displaying them. (For the same reason when I put this post up on the blog I'll have to do the same thing for the < and > marks as the HTML rendering engine (ie your browser) will try to do the same thing with them.)

Finally, and just for good measure, I loaded the Wikipedia search page (which for some reason isn't linked to directly on Wikipedia?) and altered the Advanced search options to search only in page titles for Hoogendijk (Structure - Page title contains) and rank them by page creation date (Sorting order - Creation date - current on top). Up popped a recently created article that I could add to the list.

Now there have been 33% more edits to the page and I have added 20% of the content. Nijce.
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