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aotm is the driving engine behind the automatic replacement of the Article of the Minute section of the main page. It looks for a sub-template of this one labelled by a number between 1 and 100. It then transcludes the template associated with that number. Thus, a different "article of the minute" appears on the front page on each page load. This ensures that no two users of the site have the same experience, and a wider range of articles will be visited from the front page.

This template is fully locked, because it is merely the conduit through which the actual featured article text passes. To change the quote of the week, you must change one of the following sub templates. Today is 27 August, which is in Week. Week begins in  days, on the midnight (UTC) that divides Sunday from Monday. Note that for the period of time that the above pages are being populated, the default for each week is the contents of qotw/26. Also, the weeks are not being filled in sequentially, but thematically. Therefore, much of February-May, July-August and December-January was completed first.

53 weeks?
Although most years have only 52 weeks, some years — like 2009 — have 53, according to the software running this wiki. This is because the software employs what's called the.

If this revelation screws with your concept of time, don't sweat it. Only about 70 years out of every 400 have 53 weeks, and we've just had one. Basically they happen every 5 or 6 years. So, 53 week years within the likely life of this wiki are 2004, 2009, 2015, 2020, 2026, and 2032.

Obsolete functionality
Originally, it was envisioned that the individual week templates might not have been created until needed. For this reason, qotw includes "failsafe" coding to allow it to randomly select another week if it encounters an uncreated week template. If a week doesn't exist, then this template will come up with a sort of random number. So if the current week number is, then the "random" substitute would be

However, this has been obsoleted, since all weeks have been created.