साचा:Plain sister/doc

This is a documentation subpage for साचा:Plain sister.
It contains usage information, categories, and other content that is not part of the original साचा page.

Background

This template provides a simple list of links to sister WMF projects.

An interface to this template is already included in {{header}}, {{author}} and {{portal header}}, and this methodology is to be used as the preference in the respective namespaces — Main, Author and Portal
Where the above header templates are not used this template is to be used, instead of bulky templates like {{wikipedia}}.

Usage

{{Plain sister
 |portal          =
 | related_author =
 |wikipedia       = 
 |commons         = 
 |commonscat      = 
 |wikiquote       = 
 |wikinews        = 
 |wiktionary      = 
 |wikibooks       = 
 |wikiversity     = 
 |wikispecies     = 
 |meta            = 
}}

Parameters

This template uses the following parameters. All parameters are optional. if you enter no parameters, no output will be generated.

portal: Link to the named portal. Multiple portals can be linked by separating portals with a forward slash, eg. United States/Australia
related_author: Link to the named author. Multiple authors can be linked by separating authors with a forward slash, eg. William Shakespeare/Francis Bacon
wikipedia: Link to Wikipedia (displays as article)
commons: Link to Wikicommons (displays as media))
commonscat: An alternative link to Wikicommons, this links to a category instead of a gallery (displays as media category)
wikiquote: Link to Wikiquote (displays as quotes)
wikinews: Link to Wikinews (displays as news)
wiktionary: Link to Wiktionary (displays as definition)
wikibooks: Link to Wikibooks (displays as textbook)
wikiversity: Link to Wikiversity (displays as course)
wikispecies: Link to Wikispecies (displays as taxonomy)
meta: Link to Meta (displays as meta)

Examples

Basic

The template can be used as follows to create a single interwiki link, author link or portal link:

{{Plain sister
 | wikipedia   = Test
}}

sister projects: Wikipedia article.

{{Plain sister
 | portal   = Portals
}}

related portals: Portals.

{{Plain sister
 | related_author = William Shakespeare/Francis Bacon
}}

related authors: William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon.

Full

The template can also be used to display a collection of portal and interwiki links:

{{Plain sister
 | portal         = Portals/General Works/World History
 | related_author = William Shakespeare/Francis Bacon
 | wikipedia      = Test
 | commons        = Test
 | commonscat     = Test
 | wikiquote      = Test
 | wikinews       = Test
 | wiktionary     = Test
 | wikibooks      = Test
 | wikiversity    = Test
 | wikispecies    = Test
 | meta           = Test
}}