Media related to
Commons category-inline at Wikimedia Commons
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Purpose
This template can be used to generate a link to a Commons category. It is intended for use in the " External links" section of an article.
Usage
* {{Commons category-inline|Ursus maritimus}}
yields:
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Media related to
Ursus maritimus at Wikimedia Commons
* {{Commons category-inline|Ursus maritimus|Polar bears}}
yields:
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Media related to
Polar bears at Wikimedia Commons
* {{Commons category-inline|Ursus maritimus|''Ursus maritimus''}}
yields:
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Media related to
Ursus maritimus at Wikimedia Commons
TemplateData
TemplateData for Commons category-inline
This template creates a link to a category on Commons.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category name | 1 | The name of the Commons category this template will link to. If no value is provided the Wikidata sitelinks are used by default. | String | optional |
| Displayed text | 2 | The text that the link will display to the user. If no value is provided it will default to category name or page name, in that order. | String | optional |
| nowrap | nowrap | Stops the text of the commons category from wrapping | String | optional |
| lcfirst | lcfirst | Displays the first letter as lower-case | String | optional |
| italic | italic | Force display text to be italic | String | optional |
| notrack | notrack | Turn off tracking categories | String | optional |
Tracking categories
Normal categories
- Category:Commons category link from Wikidata (387,639)
- Category:Commons category link is on Wikidata (633,519)
Maintenance categories
- Category:Commons category link is defined as the pagename (1,609)
- Category:Commons category link is locally defined (17,873)
- Category:Commons category link is the pagename (1,006)
- Category:Inconsistent wikidata for Commons category (149)
See also
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout § External links
- {{ Commons}}—shows Commons box
- {{ Commons-inline}}—shows Commons gallery inline
- {{ Commons category}}—shows Commons category box
- {{ Commons category-inline}}—shows Commons category inline
- {{ Commons category multi}}—to list up to six categories
- {{ Commons and category}}—shows Commons box with both gallery and category
- {{ Commons and category inline}}—shows Commons gallery and category inline
- {{ Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}
- {{ Wikimedia Commons redirect}}—specialized soft redirect template for Commons
- {{ Wiki category}}—to link to a gallery hosted on Wikipedia
- mw:Manual:Pywikibot/commonscat.py
- {{ Sister project links}}—to link all Wikinews, Wikisource, etc.
- {{ Wikibooks}} / {{ Wikibooks inline}}
- {{ Wikinews}} / {{ Wikinews inline}}
- {{ Wikiquote}} / {{ Wikiquote-inline}}
- {{ Wikisource}} / {{ Wikisource-inline}}
- {{ Wikispecies}} / {{ Wikispecies-inline}}
- {{ Wikiversity}} / {{ Wikiversity inline}}
- {{ Wikivoyage}} / {{ Wikivoyage inline}}
- {{ Wiktionary}} / {{ Wiktionary-inline}}