Meta:Templates

Here's a list of templates used to improve this wiki functionality.

User Templates

Those templates can (and often should) be used in page body.

Category

• Location: Template:Category
• Description: Specifies category page belongs to.
• Examples: {{Category|MyCategory}}.

CategoryContents

• Location: Template:CategoryContents
• Description: Lists all pages in the specified category. Output is localized, so if you use {{CategoryContents|Example}} on Spanish page, you will automatically get content of Example/es category and the page titles will be replaced with their Spanish translations.
• Examples: {{CategoryContents|MyCategory}}.

L

• Location: Template:L
• Description: Creates link to another page, providing proper localization support.
• Examples: See Meta:LinksTest/ru.

Stub

• Location: Template:Stub
• Description: Mark page as a stub.
• Examples: {{Stub}}.

Title

• Location: Template:Title
• Description: Sets custom title for a page.
• Examples: See sources of Main_Page, Doc:Getting_Started, Doc:Getting_Started/ru pages.

Internal Templates

Templates below are not intended for direct use in page body. They are usually invoked by high-level templates listed above.

!

• Location: Template:!
• Description: This is an auxiliary template allowing one to encode "|"

within template and parser function parameters. More...

• Examples:

Code:	Result:	Comments:
{{!}}	|

GetTitle

• Location: Template:GetTitle
• Description: Returns custom title of a page set with {{Title}} template in the page body.
• Examples:

Code:	Result:	Comments:
{{GetTitle|Doc:Getting_Started/ru}}	Первые шаги	Look at the source of Doc:Getting_Started/ru page.

Languages

• Location: Template:Languages
• Description: Displays bar listing available translations for current page. More...
• Examples: {{{Languages}}}

Languages/Lang

• Location: Template:Languages/Lang
• Description: Utility template for language bar. Generates link to specified translation of current page if it's exists.
• Examples:

Code:	Result:	Comments:
{{Languages/Lang|en}}	English	Result is "English", but without a link, because current page is in English
{{Languages/Lang|es}}		Result is empty, because this page have no Spanish translation. If it does, then the result would be: " • Español"
{{Languages/Lang|ru}}		Result is empty, because this page have no Russian translation. If it does, then the result would be: " • Русский"

Languages/ThisPageTranslatedIn

• Location: Template:Languages/ThisPageTranslatedIn
• Description: Utility template for language bar. Returns a page name which translates current page to specified language.
• Examples:

Code:	Result:	Comments:
{{Languages/ThisPageTranslatedIn|en}}	Meta:Templates	If this template invoked from Meta:Templates/es, then result is the same ("/es" suffix automatically dropped)
{{Languages/ThisPageTranslatedIn|ru}}	Meta:Templates/ru	If this template invoked from Meta:Templates/es, then result is the same ("/es" suffix automatically dropped and "/ru" suffix added)

PagenameFromLink

• Location: Template:PagenameFromLink
• Description: Extracts page name from given link.
• Examples:

Code:	Result:	Comments:
{{PagenameFromLink|Doc:Getting_Started#Introduction}}	Doc:Getting_Started
{{PagenameFromLink|layers}}	Layers
{{PagenameFromLink|:Category:Manual}}	Category:Manual

Title.dpl

• Location: Template:Title.dpl
• Description: Utility template used by GetTitle template and DPL for page title extraction. See this link.

Title.dpl.default

• Location: Template:Title.dpl.default
• Description: Utility template used by GetTitle template and DPL for page title extraction. See this link.