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Image of the day stuck?

Whenever I open the image of day on the main page it shows the one from october 18 but I am writing this on october 20th. I don't know why this is happening. 165.199.181.15 16:27, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

I see the October 21 POTD on the Main Page right now, even when visiting it logged out. Maybe you’ve run into some caching issue? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:58, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Interwiki transclusion

Hello! Is there an automatic way to have the picture of the day appear in another wikiproject? I was thinking of having a dedicated section about it at my homewiki (SqWiki) which would automatically show the POTD, whatever it may be, without me needing to update it. Any way to achieve that without using bots? - Klein Muçi (talk) 09:56, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Other wikis cannot read Commons templates, but they can read tabular data. There are two options:

• If you want to completely avoid using bots, you need to convince people to use tabular data instead of the currently used templates. You probably won’t succeed.
• Get a Commons bot owner set up a bot that updates tabular data based on the existing templates. While it isn’t strictly a solution without using bots, it’s probably easier to find a willing bot owner on Commons than on Albanian Wikipedia (and not only Albanian Wikipedia benefits from it, any WMF wiki can make use of it).

Tacsipacsi (talk) 14:04, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Tacsipacsi, thank you! I'll try my chance at the VP. — Klein Muçi (talk) 15:43, 22 October 2023 (UTC)