Template:Commons category-inline

File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to 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:

• File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

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* {{Commons category-inline|Ursus maritimus|Polar bears}}

yields:

• File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

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* {{Commons category-inline|Ursus maritimus|''Ursus maritimus''}}

yields:

• File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Commons category-inline in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Commons category-inline

This template creates a link to a category on Commons.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

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 (245)
• Category:Commons category link is on Wikidata (0)

Maintenance categories

• Category:Commons category link is defined as the pagename (188)
• Category:Commons category link is locally defined (96)
• Category:Commons category link is the pagename (0)
• Category:Inconsistent wikidata for Commons category (0)

See also

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Commons category-inline/doc. (edit | history)
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