Template:Documentation

Template documentation (for the above template, sometimes hidden or invisible)

Description

This template is used to insert descriptions on template pages.

Syntax

Place {{Documentation}} in noinclude tags at the end of the template page.

General usage

On the Template page

Template code<includeonly>Any categories to be inserted into articles by the template</includeonly><noinclude>
{{documentation}}</noinclude>

Note that, depending on the template, you may need to add a clear or complete a table/div just before {{documentation}} is inserted (within the noinclude tags).

The line break is also useful as it helps prevent the documentation template "running into" previous code.

On the Template/doc page

;Description
:This template is used to do something.
;Syntax
:Type <code>{{tlx|templatename}}</code> somewhere.
;Sample output
:<code><nowiki>{{templatename|foo}}</nowiki></code> gives...
:{{templatename|foo}}

<includeonly>Any categories for the template itself</includeonly><noinclude>[[Category:Template documentation|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>

Use any or all of the above description/syntax/sample output sections. You may also want to add "see also" or further usage information sections.

Note that the above example also uses the Template:Tlx and Template:T/piece templates.

Categorisation

Note that any templates that call {{Documentation}} but do not have a detectable documentation subpage defined will be categorised by this template into Templates without a documentation subpage. Pages using the template in question will not be affected.

Attribution

This template was copied from ew:Template:Documentation. Therefore, this template and all original documentation text is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Any text added by AEW editors is licensed under CC BY 4.0 as per the wiki norm.

TemplateData

Creates a preview of the documentation subpage, showcasing the documentation for the template, links to view the subpage, edit and purge it.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Documentation subpage	1	The template's documentation subpage. Normally, this is located on the /doc subpage of the transcluding template, but this parameter allows you to specify another. Default {{FULLPAGENAME}}/doc Example Template:Foo/bar	Page name	optional

Transcluded from Template:Documentation/doc (Edit • Purge • How does this work?)