Template:Wikipedia category
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This is a maintenance category. It is used for maintenance of the LNF wiki project and is not part of the database. It contains pages that are not articles, or it groups articles by status rather than content. Do not include this category in content categories. |
This template should not be substituted. |
Usage
This template should be placed at the top of categories used in the administration of Wikipedia rather than as part of the encyclopedia – for example, at the top of Category:Wikipedia administration.
Parameters
The following descriptions assume the template is transcluded on a page in the Category namespace.
|shortcut=
| Enables (a?) shortcut(s?) to the category to be displayed by the template... ( "{{{s[hortcut]1}}}" "{{{s[hortcut]2}}}" "{{{s[hortcut]3}}}" "{{{s[hortcut]4}}}" "{{{s[hortcut]5}}}" ...?)
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|hidden=true/yes/on
| Causes the template to hide the page (the category), add it to Category:Hidden categories and to include a {{Hidden category}}-style message. |
|tracking=true/yes/on
| Causes the template to add the page (the category) to Category:Tracking categories and include a {{Tracking category}}-style message.1 To add a short description of the tracking category after the message, use |description=[short description] .
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|container=true/yes/on
| Causes the template to add the page (the category) to Category:Container categories and include a {{Container category}}-style message.2 |
{{{1}}} (first unnamed parameter)
| Anything supplied as the template's first unnamed parameter will be placed immediately below it under the heading "Description". |
- 1 Category:Contents' categorisation and Category:Tracking categories self-categorisation is prevented by setting
|tracking_category=false/no/off
. - 2 Category:Container categories's self-categorisation is prevented by setting
|container_category=false/no/off
.
Example
Code
{{Wikipedia category |hidden=true |tracking=true |description=This category tracks pages tagged with {{tl|Citation needed}}. | [ ''Text providing more detailed description of category'' ] }}
Result
This is a maintenance category. It is used for maintenance of the LNF wiki project and is not part of the database. It contains pages that are not articles, or it groups articles by status rather than content. Do not include this category in content categories. This is a hidden category. It is not shown on its member pages, unless the corresponding user preference 'Show hidden categories' is set. This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. Pages are added to tracking categories through templates. This category tracks pages tagged with {{Citation needed}}. |
Description: [ Text providing more detailed description of category ]
Other category header templates
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The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Wikipedia category/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |