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specific parameters it can accept, as defined within its code. You can list named parameters in any order in a template call. Extra or misnamed parameters have...
Click to read more »warning, but please consider whether the real error is that one of the parameters should have been named differently, for example as "access-date=" (instead...
Click to read more »or the {{reflist}} template. Parameters such as style or id were passed to the <references /> tag. Only the group parameter is allowed. Using the {{reflist}}...
Click to read more »b|c - works fine for rendering text, but is not suitable for putting parameters b and c in a template call (there is no function for removing nowiki tags):...
Click to read more »empty numbered parameter. Parameters that have both a pipe and an equal sign but do not have a name are identified as empty-string parameters: |= or | = →...
Click to read more »an infobox in an article, an editor must know its name, parameters, and how those parameters are intended to be used. Because infoboxes are kept in a...
Click to read more »in corresponding order in both parameters. The templates do not have separate |location1=, |publisher1=, etc., parameters. For historical publications that...
Click to read more »vertical bar (|). Parameters that take the form value are called unnamed or positional parameters, while those in the form |parameter name=value are known...
Click to read more »values of its parameters to the parameters of the "lower-level" template—in such cases, one will often end up with defined-but-empty parameter values). Because...
Click to read more »the start and end of their keywords and parameters (as is also done in template calls using named parameters). They can be transcluded, even variables...
Click to read more »the first unnamed parameter; yes is the value of the named parameter lc. Writing the template page for a template with parameters is more complicated...
Click to read more »to fix the cite error message: Cite error: Unknown parameter "$1" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are $2 (see the help page). If you have read this...
Click to read more »fix the cite error message: Cite error: ⧼Cite error references invalid parameters group⧽ If you have read this help page and find something missing or confusing...
Click to read more »example would have other parameters as well. Some infoboxes use a syntax similar to this, but with different names for the parameters. For example, {{Infobox...
Click to read more »title=Train&action=edit. Other parameters can be added, such as section=5 or section=new to edit or add a page section. There are also parameters for preloading text...
Click to read more »instructions on setting up these bots. Those pages explain each of the parameters used, such as archiveheader, minthreadsleft, etc. The examples below are...
Click to read more »{{{variable_foo}}}: Positional parameters {{{1}}} etc. work like named parameters: {{#if:{{{1|}}} |1st parameter is '''{{{1}}}''' |1st parameter is ''blank''}} Note...
Click to read more »formatting to other citation templates, add |mode=cs2 to the template's parameters. For example, {{cite web}} uses CS1 formatting, but {{cite web |mode=cs2}}...
Click to read more »forward would be on quality, not quantity. }}</ref> The |last= and |first= parameters are for the author's name. |date= is when the article was published. |url=...
Click to read more »malformed or has a bad name (see the help page). Unknown parameter "$1" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are $2 (see the help page). The <ref> tag name cannot...
Click to read more »desired namespaces). The search engine also supports special characters and parameters to extend the power of searches and allow users to make their search strings...
Click to read more »link}} template takes two parameters to function: the color of the link, the article being linked to, with an optional third parameter for alternative text...
Click to read more »|colwidth= and |refs= parameters, which work the same as the same parameters in {{reflist}}, and |group=, which works similarly to the parameter of the same name...
Click to read more »onto the parameters of the infobox template. {{infobox}} documents how to use this template. While there are many different infobox parameters, the most...
Click to read more »anchors in the |ref= parameter. The shortened citation can then be created using the same structure. Note the identical parameters for {{sfnref}} and {{sfn}}:...
Click to read more »footnote with = sign}}. Unnamed template parameters cannot contain an equals sign. To solve this issue, start the parameter with |1= like this: {{efn|1=Explanatory...
Click to read more »chosen specifically for a piece of content, see e.g., color; scope of parameters Alternatively, style is specified for CSS selectors, expressed in terms...
Click to read more »"|center" can be added to suppress the left-margin padding. Using precise parameters to match other images, a floating-image table can be coded as follows:...
Click to read more »mistake is to forget the closing </gallery> tag. When using, note that many parameters, specifically those relating to visual appearance, may not apply or work...
Click to read more »This page wants to give an elaborate overview of the {{convert}}} parameters and their options. It is a technical overview. Help:Convert units • Simplified...
Click to read more »similar parameters not evaluated by the template parser, or raw CSS and XHTML markup not permitted on normal pages. MediaWiki messages may have parameters as...
Click to read more »The MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia has several parameters that limit the complexity of a page, and the amount of data that can be included. These...
Click to read more »user agents to display it correctly. The template uses the following parameters English. Optional. The word as translated into English. Note that this...
Click to read more »caption tag accepts the following parameters: align = "top|bottom|left|right" Equivalent stylesheet (CSS) parameters: style="caption-side:...
Click to read more »ps= must have the same value in each use of {{sfn}} where the other parameters are identical. An assigned value in ps= cannot be combined with an omitted...
Click to read more »tags use |alt= parameters on each line similar to standard images, but the {{Gallery}} template requires enumerated alt text parameters. Also, you can...
Click to read more »expressions and consist of keywords (some beginning #) in double braces with parameters following a colon, ex. {{#expr:2+2}} Magic words may be case-sensitive...
Click to read more »3 |- ! Row header A | Cell B | Cell C |} Produces The table parameters and cell parameters are the same as in HTML, see http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables...
Click to read more »decide which actions you wish to see logged and filter by certain other parameters, such as date and time, user and affected page. When a log type is selected...
Click to read more »evaluated at all. Parameters can have default values for when they are undefined: {{{parameter-name|default-value}}} Undefined parameter defaults are useful...
Click to read more »data block can conceptually be divided into parameters and data items. Data blocks can contain parameters and data items intermingled. Data items: in...
Click to read more »used for links internal to en.wikipedia.org which require special URL parameters and therefore cannot be reached by wikilinks. The arrow icon can be suppressed...
Click to read more »archive-date= and url-status= parameters in any of the citation templates. If the original URL is no longer accessible, the url-status parameter value should be set...
Click to read more »anything the template does with that parameter. It will see the string abc def. If you use automatically numbered parameters ({{template| abc def }}) the spaces...
Click to read more »#switch is typically used inside a template, to branch depending on a parameter value passed to the template. The #switch function can be a one-line form:...
Click to read more »"color:lightgrey") at the end of each bar's numeric data. For other optional parameters see § Bar chart commands and attributes, or full list at Help:Timeline...
Click to read more »preceding asterisk (*) in the |a(nnotation)= parameters by <br/>, or remove the asterisk and add a parameter |leadin=<br/> instead. Template:Sfnm – creates...
Click to read more »redirect page, the redirect target is included instead, with the same parameters, without any redirect message. Hence if Template:AFD is redirected to...
Click to read more »Language (also known as Wikitext) and should include some or all the parameters of Template:Information. File history: If a new version of a file is uploaded...
Click to read more »the image. For examples of how all this works, see Examples of location parameter. right Place the image on the right side of the page. The article text...
Click to read more »Latitude (N/S) must appear before longitude (E/W). Optional coordinate parameters follow the longitude and are separated by an underscore ("_"): dim: dim:N...
Click to read more »beginning with the Special: prefix is not possible. Special pages often take parameters, with some special pages accepting them after a slash (such as in Special:Log/block)...
Click to read more »nowiki before the first pipe. If a parameter has a wikilink, put it in that, an inmost position. For input parameters, {{{1}}}, {{{2}}}, just write them...
Click to read more »can work together on the same page. These LST functions take additional parameters, as explained below. § Example pages provides search links for the articles...
Click to read more »October 2005.. There are some template parameters that haven't been filled out. For a full list of parameters for this template, look at the template...
Click to read more »element "span" without content can, through its class and id, provide parameters for JS specifying CSS for any parts of the page. For example, if a page...
Click to read more »mediawikiwiki:Manual:Advanced templates This page is a soft redirect....
Click to read more »encode a Wikimedia URL link, such as one pointing to a special page with parameters. {{Plain link|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php...
Click to read more »citation—author's name, document title, and so on, by using what Wikipedia calls parameters. Figure 2-8 shows you three different ways an editor could use a citation...
Click to read more »the foreign language article has a different title, use the following parameters: {{ill|English article title|language code|Title in foreign language}}...
Click to read more »be used to obtain bulk export of page content in XML form. See Manual:Parameters to Special:Export for arguments; Status: Built-in feature of MediaWiki...
Click to read more »definitions, triple braces allow a template to refer to one of its parameters (such as parameter 1 {{{1}}}). The single square brackets [ ] are used to link...
Click to read more »audio file without any template. [[File:Accordion chords-01.ogg]] The parameter |thumbmay be used to give the file a caption. That will also float the...
Click to read more »template to appear. If the template contains parameters, you can edit the text that has been added to those parameters just like you can edit other text in the...
Click to read more »tags work in the true and false parameters of an #if expression, etc. See m:Template:Demo of attempt to use parameters within TeX for more information...
Click to read more »worthwhile investment in research techniques. (See also the search box parameter "incategory".) The layout of a category page is mostly text, but see about...
Click to read more »multiple pages. These are designated by curly brackets like: {{template name|parameters}} For instance, to insert the [citation needed] tag, you can type this...
Click to read more »that has no page numbers. The Citation Style 1 templates have an |at= parameter that can be used to include non-page locators. The Author-date citation...
Click to read more »allow you to re-enable the TOC manually on specific pages by adding a parameter, usually specified in their documentation pages. The sections below only...
Click to read more »Wikipedia. Wikipedia's search box allows readers to apply six different parameters to better refine the search results that a bare word search might produce...
Click to read more »type of reference you want to add, and fill in as many of the fields ("parameters") as possible. Sometimes the reference you want to add doesn't fall into...
Click to read more »assigning to feed (one of the parameters to index.php available for a history pagehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_index.php#History) the...
Click to read more »links here, a template to generate links to Special:WhatLinksHere with parameters User:Lourdes/Backlinks, script to search out all unlinked backlinks "Related...
Click to read more »software ignores the spaces around parameters, but how in Q4 the same MediaWiki software processes the spaces inside parameters. Q2 might have been solved with...
Click to read more »abbr=on (abbreviate) displays unit symbols, not names The following parameters are intended for use in tables. The following shows the wikitext output...
Click to read more »trees are usually displayed collapsed; to display them expanded add the parameter: |collapsed=no to {{ahnentafel}} Template:Tree chart can be used to construct...
Click to read more »search within a top-level domain or generic top-level domain, a "site" parameter can be added. For example: "Search topic" site:*.ro lists websites under...
Click to read more »except when separating parameters from content or when using doubled pipes (||) to separate cells on a single code line. The parameters are optional. A table...
Click to read more »Caption 1 Caption 2 You can also specify alt text and other image rendering parameters like page number for pdfs: <gallery> William Blake, a critical essay (Swinburne)...
Click to read more »supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page). Cite error: Unknown parameter "autoed:" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are dir...
Click to read more »scoring mechanisms. The parameters that you can control are morelike, boost-template, and prefer-recent. There are now eleven parameters for various approaches...
Click to read more »uses an interwiki link and a parameter, like "tt0389790" or "0389790", or that it uses an external link and a parameter like one of those or the full...
Click to read more »specification is missing. The parameters as used in the URL are listed below. The base URL is https://linksearch.toolforge.org/ The parameter list must be appended...
Click to read more »as the features of <ref>...</ref> tags, and the <ref name="REFNAME" /> parameter. LDR uses named references where each individual reference has a unique...
Click to read more »interpret characters such as equal signs "=" and pipes "|" in template parameters as special characters, and thus they cause problems. In these cases, it...
Click to read more »same Web page might be followed by different non-significant tracking parameters (?utm ..., #ixzz...), and will not be listed as duplicates. Step 1: click...
Click to read more »reader for web pages. The "Advanced" tab contains various additional parameters. These include the alignment, the display type, and size of the image...
Click to read more »don't match the in-text cite labels The {{Reflist}} uses the |group= parameter to select the list-style-type style, and apply it to the .reflist class:...
Click to read more »supported by the server. A negative precision rounds to the nearest 10 (parameter |-1), or nearest 100 (|-2), or nearest 1000 (|-3), etc. A large negative...
Click to read more »the order used in the content. If {{reflist}} is used and the |refs= parameter is missing or malformed. If a named reference is invoked within the reference...
Click to read more »sorting when c. is in front of the number, but only if the sortable=yes parameter is added to the template. See: Template:Circa/doc/sortable. {{circa|NUMBER...
Click to read more »flags but not all, do not remove the template entirely but just those parameters in it that you have fixed. The example below shows three different issues...
Click to read more »every transcluding page for reparse too. A new "forcerecursivelinkupdate" parameter was added to the API's action=purge to get the old behavior if necessary...
Click to read more »n.b. use of |day= puts page into Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters...
Click to read more »Templates: {{quote}}; supports pre-formatted attribution and source parameters. For other specialized quotation templates, see Category:Quotation templates...
Click to read more »numbered link. |diffonly=yes – Shows only a diff and not the page content. Parameter name required. {{URL to diff}} takes a full diff URL and converts it to...
Click to read more »defective: fix immediately". Most of those tag-box templates allow a parameter "|section" when lowering the tag-box further down the page. For example:...
Click to read more »sixty thousand There are two types of parameters: numeric (positional) keys and named keys. Unnamed parameters come out with numbers as keys: frame.args[1]...
Click to read more »after the years (e.g., |year=2008a, |year=2008b), or by using the ref= parameter of {{citation}}. HTML ids are only needed when using Shortened footnotes...
Click to read more »$2 $1 ~~ Documentation Identical to Help:Contents/helpmepreload but includes prefillable parameters....
Click to read more »date parameter to the {{uncategorized}} template—for example, {{Uncategorized|date=July 2026}}. (Be careful of the parameter spelling; parameters are never...
Click to read more »revisions are returned; other revisions can be requested as detailed in MW:Parameters to Special:Export. The format of the XML file you receive is the same...
Click to read more »the initial still image. To use a different frame, use the thumbtime parameter. For instance: [[File:Bombers of WW1.ogg |thumbtime=3 |thumb |200px |alt=World...
Click to read more »different pages. Note that a parameter value appearing in a template, for example "{{{1}}}", is, if we want to preserve the parameter, not edited by editing...
Click to read more »doc2mw passing the word document as parameter. i.e. > doc2mw my_word.doc doc2mw a bash script taking a single parameter, which calls wvHtml followed by html2mw...
Click to read more »appropriate, copy either the blank template with basic parameters or the blank template with all parameters into a text editor. Based upon the machine translation...
Click to read more »sockpuppet of Username. To mark a vote/comment cast by sockpuppet. More parameters exist and can be viewed at the template documentation. {{Sources-talk}}...
Click to read more »(named) parameters in the left sidebar For an existing template, you can edit the parameters shown in the dialog, and you can add and remove parameters from...
Click to read more »unsupported parameters (which may cause a page to land in a maintenance category) or updating a template to use the current names for parameters instead of...
Click to read more »Markup Renders as The {{tnull|fnord}} template has two parameters: # {{para|foo}} This indicates the ''foo'' level:<pre>{{fnord|foo=20}}</pre> # {{para|bar}}...
Click to read more »Headers With navigation {{Archived annually}} {{Archive}} (does not need parameter) {{Archives by months}} {{Month-year archive nav}} {{Monthly archived...
Click to read more »empty page - For example a template can be made such that, depending on a parameter, it produces either just a standard text or also an additional text. This...
Click to read more »does not have nested tables, table.concat(tab, ',') can also be used as parameter in the error() function, i.e. error(table.concat(tab, ',')). To obtain...
Click to read more »much technical in some areas related to the parser functions and the parameters. (As of 16:36, 2 August 2012 (UTC), the latter at once links to a main...
Click to read more »alt text is provided in the alt parameter in the MediaWiki markup. Many templates, like {{Infobox}}, have parameters for specifying alt text. For images...
Click to read more »multiple pages. These are designated by curly brackets like: {{template name|parameters}} For instance, to insert the [citation needed] tag, you can type this...
Click to read more »begins with "{|". In this case, an optional parameter, class="wikitable", has been added. That parameter tells the software to do standard table formatting...
Click to read more »preceded by the File: prefix. This displays the file, but by adding further parameters, the nature of the display can be tightly controlled. Code is added, to...
Click to read more »the connected page (or any other page if qid is set) unless the local parameter |occupation= is given a value in an article, when that value takes preference...
Click to read more »screens the images may even overlap. (Even if you know how to use special parameters in the image links to force blank space between the images to avoid squeezing...
Click to read more »take chapters of the books, or groups of articles in the books, as the parameters that help find related articles? SADADS (talk) 14:28, 27 October 2009...
Click to read more »Additionally it is required that the name parameter is present, and there is an optional title parameter. After making this change, the page is added...
Click to read more »option in Figure 13-6 would be to use limit=3 instead of limit=2 as the parameter. That would reduce the TOC length to 30 lines, which is a compromise between...
Click to read more »situation in text necessitates, a linebreak can also be inserted before other parameters. Because URLs are typically long, placing these on a new line is handy...
Click to read more »information is relevant. As a template, this snippet takes a |heading= parameter to replace the level-2 ==Infoboxes and user style== section heading code...
Click to read more »after you publish it. To fix the problem, you need to add the concern= parameter, so the template looks like this: {{subst:prod|concern=Give your reason...
Click to read more »command" and some parameters: ERROR: syntaxerror OFFENDING COMMAND: xs STACK: [2.66394 4 2.66394 2.224 2 4 4 0 ] ((4): 445) The first parameter line looks like...
Click to read more »text that begins "Not to be confused with." Here, the template has two parameters, "Guyana" and "French Guinea," which become links within the note at the...
Click to read more »reader for web pages. The "Advanced" tab contains various additional parameters. These include the alignment, the display type, and size of the image...
Click to read more »on the page with the actual content. For example, the linksto search parameter only accepts a canonical pagename. But more accurately, it is the value...
Click to read more »Figure 9-4. This template for WikiProject Iran includes parameters (which would be visible in edit mode) for quality and importance. Because neither has...
Click to read more »map cultural gaps between different language projects along a number of parameters. The tool is particularly good at surfacing content covered well on one...
Click to read more »Help:Convert units Help:Convert messages Documentation Template:Convert/doc parameter list deprecations list range separator list All /doc pages Units List...
Click to read more »Template {{outdent|::::::}} is used to keep discussions readable. The parameter is the indentation used by previous post, consisting of six colons. --Example2...
Click to read more »The MoS A vast resource Article sections Making articles readable Images and refs Enriching the text Linking Tying the encyclopedia together Consistency...
Click to read more »type of reference you want to add, and fill in as many of the fields ("parameters") as possible. Sometimes the reference you want to add doesn't fall into...
Click to read more »multiple pages. These are designated by curly brackets like: {{template name|parameters}} For instance, to insert the [citation needed] tag, you can type this...
Click to read more »(talk) 09:13, 3 December 2009 (UTC) Well first |publisher_other= is not a parameter in the first infobox, so that's should be fixed in the articles or in...
Click to read more »white;">ghi</span> | jkl |} Produces Like other parameters, colors can also be specified for a whole row or the whole table; parameters for a row override the value for...
Click to read more »second. (Any inline Template:Coord use must not include a "display=it" parameter.) You must search for the civil subdivision record for the municipality...
Click to read more »anim id est laborum. Example uses a wikitable format, where the width parameter can be left to default to auto, or specified in the style line (not shown)...
Click to read more »to test various image sizes but whatever I specify in the Image size parameter field, the renderer uses the same low resolution. For example, on page...
Click to read more »in|Washington, D.C.|name=Washington, D.C.}} This particular use of {{flagg}} parameters is expensive and can only be used on a few hundred links per article....
Click to read more »{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |lay-date= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |lay-source= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |lay-url= ignored (help)...
Click to read more »This is the English language Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a multi-lingual project; as of February 2026, there were 344 active Wikipedias in various languages...
Click to read more »Parameters: 1, lang= language code, e.g. ksh 2, ipa= IPA transcription of {{{2|{{{text}}}}}}, e.g. tʃøˑ 3, text= text sample, e.g....
Click to read more »See this example. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 19:31, 5 May 2010 (UTC) Hi! At Wikibooks we have some templates that automatically generate...
Click to read more »Caption - no align parameter...
Click to read more »The |upright= parameter can be used to increase or decrease an image's size relative to the default of 1 (Mona Lisa)...
Click to read more »type of reference you want to add, and fill in as many of the fields ("parameters") as possible. Sometimes the reference you want to add doesn't fall into...
Click to read more »|chapter= ignored (help); External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help) {{cite journal |title=title...
Click to read more »Archived from the original on February 2, 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help) {{cite web |title=title...
Click to read more »|timecaption=timecaption}} title. Event occurs at time. {{cite AV media}}: Unknown parameter |timecaption= ignored (|time-caption= suggested) (help) {{cite video |title=title...
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