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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:
Media related to Ursus maritimus at Wikimedia Commons
* {{Commons category-inline|Ursus maritimus|Polar bears}}
yields:
- Media related to Polar bears at Wikimedia Commons
* {{Commons category-inline|Ursus maritimus|''Ursus maritimus''}}
yields:
- Media related to Ursus maritimus at Wikimedia Commons
TemplateData
This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.
Commons category-inline
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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 (122)
- Category:Commons category link is on Wikidata (0)
Maintenance categories
- Category:Commons category link is defined as the pagename (0)
- Category:Commons category link is locally defined (1,153)
- Category:Commons category link is the pagename (344)
- Category:Inconsistent wikidata for Commons category (0)
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}}
- {{Wiktionary}} / {{Wiktionary-inline}}
