Template:Wikimacro usage

Version-at-a-glance (Wikimacro usage)

Ver: F_e -- source: simple English Wikpedia (Simple)

-- refactor Version-at-a-glance note to top, per what has become standardisation for such. // FrankB 02:56, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Ver: F_d -- source: Wikpedia

by Iterative succession: d) Usage tweaks and Noinclude block end "nesting fix" and

(a, → c) Refactored for better appearance, consistent location of {interwikitmp-grp} versus text flow. // FrankB 19:07, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

usage of {Wikimacro usage}

Parameters:

Excepting 'RDIR' which has other scope, parameters in this template only pass through to pick up options in the {{interwikitmp-grp}} interwiki linking template.

1. RDIR - specified on a redirect page for an aliased name to one of the templates in this family (Makes a pipetrick differently in category inclusion)
   1. RDIR = defined or not defined,
        define RDIR=true ... and use this page as template on redirects pages of the old / redirected templates names that are now redirects such as 'W2', 'W2c', 'Wd', 'WD', and 'Mw', etc. and include this page instead of using direct inclusions of interwikitmp-grp.
   2. This provides for one place to update and maintain auto-categorization and participating sister projects, etc. via {{interwikitmp-grp}}.
   3. When RDIR defined, properly pipetricks PAGENAME to indicate redirects pages.
2. defining: WDY, WQT, WSR, MTA, or MDW (not to be confused with the templates of the same name) passes through the defined value to define the lowercase parameter of the same spelling to and as {interwikitmp-grp} input parameters. Use to override 'exceptions', when a template also exists on a sister project normally "skipped" in the links.
3. inhibit passes through to interwikitmp-grp's inhib= (suppresses auto-categories, if different)
4. {{{1}}} & {{{2}}} also pass through and have the same function as is needed by interwikitmp-grp: {{{1}}} is a pipetrick for autocategories, {{{2}}} is 'Template name' and both override the default {{PAGENAME}} parameters

This Template:Wikimacro usage (template documentation) page takes some other parameters:

{{#if:{{{RDIR|}}}|[[Category:Typing-aid templates|!{{PAGENAME}}]]<!-- Redirect page --->
| [[Category:Typing-aid templates |{{PAGENAME}}]] }}

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This is a common usage page for the sister macro templates:

{{Mta}} / {{Wbk}} / {{Cms}} / {{Wdy}} / {{Wqt}} / {{Mdw}} / {{Wpd}} / {{Wsp}} / {{Wsr}} / {{Wvy}} etcetera.

Purpose: Wikimacro usage is a common usage page for a family of interwiki Macro templates which will give identical output for all Wikimedia Foundation sister projects;

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On {{Wpd}} / {{Wbk}} / {{Cms}} / {{Wdy}} / {{Wqt}} / {{Wsp}} / {{Wsr}} / {{Wvy}} (sister templates)

• All such macro's enable calls from any sister project to use the same call and get the same output result.

• Each connects to the general 'main' namespace of the given sister. Prefixing other namespaces such as Template: or Category:, even talk spaces will link to such namespaces fine. In that case, the pipe-trick parameter {{{2}}} may be given to create a trimmer link of more pleasing appearance.

• 'Cms' is primarily useful for see also lists on en.wikipedia or other direct accessing needs into a commons page. (Talk to Talk page, for example).

Notes on genesis and equivalence

'W2' (ALSO: 'W' on many English sister projects, but with some name collisions on others) and 'W2c' (alternative name ({{Cmscat}}) interwiki templates came out of efforts to tag, annotate and interlink key categories on the Wikimedia Commons and En.Wikipedia, as the two places foreign language wiki's tie into and plant interwiki links. All were written to enhance text portability when tagging and linking categories and then templates with common hyper linked prose to appropriate reference pages.

These four originals are now exist only 'as redirects' to the more mnemonic 'Wpd', 'Cms', 'Mta' and 'Wdy' respectively adopting the three letter near-mnemonic's of Wikiproject template sharing project, which is standardizing templates to enhance productivity on all the sister projects.

Some like the commons template {{Cms}}, {{Wbk}}, {{Wdy}}, and {{Wsp}}, require logic to bypass their own prefix on their own site to enable interwiki portability or display of local links. (This is to say, that without such logic, these would display a full url, which does not reveal bad links, but full sitename prefixes are even worse, as evince always as redlinks).

Version at a glance for Template Sharing Project's [ Template:Wikimacro usage ]
Version	Origin	Change Description	datestamp and programmer
Ver: Fe	simple en.wp	Relocate Version-at-a-glance to page top and format per new standardization practices.	FrankB 02:56, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Ver: Fd	Wikipedia (successive tweaks)	d) Tweak Cmscat & W2c usage, with logic tests of existence locally. Combine and refactor some more usage. cut some too. c) Refactored for better appearance, consistent location of {interwikitmp-grp} versus text flow, and added usage for this template use. (m) a) fixed nesting issue <noinclude> block, b) simplified pass calls to interwikitmp-grp for parent template -- should take those back to main template	FrankB 19:07, 2 August 2008 (UTC) FrankB 17:44, 2 August 2008 (UTC) FrankB 17:15, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Ver: F	Commons	Orig=1} vice {documentation subpage}, +Cmscat template	FrankB 00:52, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Ver: E_a	Commons	Trim fat out of usage and shorten significantly	FrankB 22:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Ver: E	Meta	Add usage <pre-/pre> 'block' and adjust formatting on main text displayed	FrankB 08:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC)