Template:Cat see also commons/doc

Usage

 * Note local sisters may have the tempate Cat see also, :which always acts on the local sisterproject.
 * on the commons, this template is implimented via template redirect to the local template.

&#123;&#123;Cat see also Commons&#125;&#125; (redirect form: {Cat see also W2c}) is used for small sets of see also information at the end of text headers on category pages to give cross-links to associated categories from en.wikipedia or antoher sister project to Mediawiki Commons, usually when category schemes either share common nodes, or fork off in different directions.


 * 'Clean' Links are presented an auto-pipetricked (nice) form of Category Name''.


 * If non-English wikipedians create a hard redirect in 'Category:Name In English' to the equivalent in their language, the links should also work interwiki across languages.


 * The 'W2' suffix mirrors the interwiki utility template Wpd which is work around for naming collisions (differing local usages on ). Text written using W2 (now Wpd) and the related converse W2c (aka 'cms') is portable across each sister.


 * Usage
 * Up to 40 parameters are permitted: only the first is mandatory. All links refer to Commons category names, which is not necessarily the same, and frequently somewhat different than the en.wikipedia category scheme.
 * It is also however, frequently identical per efforts for uniformity and work at Meta-wiki.
 * This template is particularly useful for tying to image gallaries on a daughter not shared on en.wp.
 * The list is dynamically generated so that a " " is always placed between the final two entries.
 * If more than 40 entries are supplied, a message will be displayed pointing out the run-over problem with the occurrence of the 41st.


 * Caution:Bad formatting: no newlines are permitted else the article links will be broken. further, whitespace in the line will possibly give you comma's preceded by a space... trim space at beginning and ends of parameters to tidy up your cut and paste operations.