Template:Categorypage: Difference between revisions
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This template is used to display a Category Tree | This template is used within your article to display a Category Tree. Category Tree is an extension that provides a nice visual formatting and disply of the Categories in a clickable tree. Among other things, Category Tree dresses up the display of [[Special:Categories|Categories]] on this site. | ||
== Documentation == | == Documentation == | ||
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree | You can display a Category Tree in your article in three ways: | ||
<ol> | |||
<li>the categorytree tag | |||
<pre><categorytree | |||
mode="parents" | |||
depth="3" | |||
hideroot="on" | |||
hideprefix="categories" | |||
showcount="on" | |||
namespaces="Help Talk 0" | |||
class="sidebarTree" | |||
style="font-size:1.3em;" | |||
id="thisBox">Applications</categorytree> | |||
</pre> | |||
<li>the parser tag | |||
<pre>{{#categorytree:Foo|hideroot|mode=pages}}</pre> | |||
<li>the 'Categorypage' template | |||
<pre>{{Categorypage|Foo}}</pre> | |||
</ol> | |||
The third option is intended to be used most, because it's the easiest. | |||
This wiki is designed so that every major category (of articles) has an article introducing that category. For example, a major theme of this wiki is "Applications", so there is a category for any article which is about or relates to an Application. There is also a "First-level" article '''named''' [[Applications]] that introduces the reader to the subject. Such a high-level overview page should include links to all the articles within the subject matter. The easy way to make that happen is to use the <pre>{{Categorypage|Foo}}</pre> 'Categorypage' template | |||
Under the covers, the Categorypage template implements the CategoryTree extension. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree for full details of the extension. | |||
== Usage == | == Usage == | ||
<nowiki>{{Categorypage|Free Software}}</nowiki> | This template is setup to make it even easier to put a CategoryTree on your article. You just use the template syntax, and give it the argument of the Category you want to show: | ||
e.g. | |||
<nowiki>{{Categorypage|Free Software}}</nowiki> | |||
</noinclude> | </noinclude> | ||