Template:Tracking category/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Tracking category. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template should not be substituted.

Basic syntax

Use the basic syntax {{Tracking category}} on a category page to designate it as a tracking category. This template places the category into Category:Tracking categories and Category:Hidden categories, causes the category to be hidden on its member pages, and produces the following message box on the category page:

This is a tracking category.

It is used to build and maintain a list or lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.

More information:

• This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (Appearance → Show hidden categories) is set.
• These categories are used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
• These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or subcategories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).
• Typically, tracking categories are automatically populated by templates invoked in pages or by the MediaWiki software (see Special:TrackingCategories for an overview of the latter).

Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty!
This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

Note

This template is only for use in the category namespace (ns=o). Using it on any page in any other namespace will add the page to Category:Pages with templates in the wrong namespace and produce the following error message box on the category page:

The above template should only be transcluded in the Category namespace(s).

Full syntax

{{Tracking category |text= |container= |1= |category= }}

text

Used to add extra text to the template. The text will be shown in the visible (unfolded) part of the template.

The syntax {{Tracking category|text=Extra text goes here.}} produces:

This is a tracking category.

It is used to build and maintain a list or lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.
Extra text goes here.

More information:

• This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (Appearance → Show hidden categories) is set.
• These categories are used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
• These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or subcategories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).
• Typically, tracking categories are automatically populated by templates invoked in pages or by the MediaWiki software (see Special:TrackingCategories for an overview of the latter).

Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty!
This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

container

Use to further designate the category as a container category.

The syntax {{Tracking category|container=yes}} adds the category page to Category:Container categories and produces:

This is a tracking category.

It is used to build and maintain a list or lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.

More information:

• This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (Appearance → Show hidden categories) is set.
• These categories are used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
• These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or subcategories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).
• Typically, tracking categories are automatically populated by templates invoked in pages or by the MediaWiki software (see Special:TrackingCategories for an overview of the latter).

Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty!
This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

unnamed parameter 1

When used with |container=no, this parameter will add content below the container category message box. When used without |container=yes, this parameter is ignored.

The syntax {{Tracking category|container=yes|This content is added below the container category message box.}} produces:

This is a tracking category.

It is used to build and maintain a list or lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.

More information:

• This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (Appearance → Show hidden categories) is set.
• These categories are used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
• These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or subcategories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).
• Typically, tracking categories are automatically populated by templates invoked in pages or by the MediaWiki software (see Special:TrackingCategories for an overview of the latter).

This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories.

This content is added below the container category message box.

Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty!
This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

- Due to the current coding of the template this is limited to a single paragraph with, SPAN style formatting, 

category

Used to prevent the addition of Category:Tracking categories and optionally add a different category instead.

The syntax {{Tracking category|category=no}} will prevent a category page from being added to Category:Tracking categories.

The syntax {{Tracking category|category=[[Category:Some other category]]}} will add the category page to Category:Some other category instead of Category:Tracking categories.

• {{Cmbox}}
• {{Collapse top}} and {{Collapse bottom}}
• {{Category other}}
• {{Single namespace}}