Template:Documentation subpage

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Not to be confused with Template:Documentation.

This template displays a message that the current page is a documentation subpage.

Usage

{{Documentation subpage}}

or

{{Documentation subpage|[[Page where the documentation is transcluded]]}}

Userbox documentation

To set this template to use "userbox" and "userbox page" rather than "template" and "template page" or "user template" and "user template page", use:

{{Userbox documentation subpage}}

or

{{Userbox documentation subpage|[[userbox page]]}}

Text customization

The parameters |text1= and |text2= can be used to set the text of, respectively, the template's first and second lines. If text1 is set but not text2, both lines' text will derive from text1:

With text1 and text2

{{Documentation subpage |text1='''''text1 appears here''''' |text2='''''text2 appears here'''''}}

With text2 only

{{Documentation subpage |text2='''''text2 appears here'''''}}

With text1 only

{{Documentation subpage |text1='''''text1 appears here'''''}}

Other parameters

Parameter |nocat=true will prevent this template from generating any categories.

Display

This template should normally be placed at the top of /doc pages. It changes output depending on where it is viewed:

• On a /doc page, it displays a box explaining template documentation and links to the template page.
  • As a workaround if the documentation page's name doesn't end with '/doc', use |override= to specify the doc subpage's name. For example, if the documentation were at "Template:Example/Documentation", use |override=documentation (must be lower-case to work)
• On other pages – i.e. pages transcluding the /doc page – the template will not show. The template page itself (which contains {{Documentation}}) will automatically note that the documentation is transcluded from a subpage.

Module documentation

This template is automatically shown on /doc subpages in the module namespace. This is done automatically via MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-header. This fails to add the doc page to Category:Module documentation pages so some module doc pages transclude the template manually or add the category directly to fix this.

Automatic categorization

In addition to the banner, the template adds pages to categories named after the subject namespace, but only for documentation pages in namespaces with the subpage feature:

• Category:Template documentation pages
• Category:Module documentation pages
• Category:User documentation pages
• Category:Wikipedia documentation pages – used for documentation pages, which aren't in Template, Module, or User namespace (e.g. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Status/doc and MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages/doc)

It defaults the sort key to the page name without namespace: Template:Foo, for example, would be sorted as "Foo", i.e. under "F".

See also

• {{Documentation/see also}}
• {{Documentation subpage}}
• {{Userspace disclaimers}}
• {{Userbox documentation subpage}}

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Documentation subpage/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.