Template:Interwikicat-grp

Version-at-a-glance

Ver: F₂,

temp tests

• 1 [[:simple:Category:Germany]]; simple:Category:Germany; works fine as inline form
• 2 [[{{#ifeq:{{SITENAME}}|Wikipedia|{{WPD}}|}}simple:Category:Germany]] -- -- forms language interwiki on en.wp, wikibooks, and commons etc.
• 3 w:simple:Category:Germany -- works fine as inline form everywhere
• 4 simple:Category:Germany -- forms language interwiki on en.wp, otherwise forms a good link on commons +wikibooks etc. (which become same as case 2 locally... ?Add ":" prefix in WPD?
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• |Template:WPD (edit talk links history)|

usage

1. Three letter mnemonics of the sister projects are used to change behavior (e.g. "wdy" means wiki-Dictionary or Wiktionary, "mta" means Meta-wiki, "mdw" Mediawiki, "wbk" wikibooks, "wqt" Wikiquote, "wnw" wikinews, etcetera.
   
   
   1. All upper case mnemonics toggle the display for that sister project. So "MDW" will cause a link line to Mediawiki, though that sister's category scheme is usually skipped. Conversely, Projects like en.wikipedia which have analogs of most categories can be toggle from it's default behavior as "Display on" to "Off"
   2. The template assumes the current {{PAGENAME}} is also the category to link to on the other sister. However,
      
      
   3. All lower case mnemonics will override that, and connect to a category name you define with 'xyz=Sister category name'
      
      
2. For situations where the local category is the oddly named one, {{{1}}} will provide the more common category name and the specific sistername (e.g. cms=xxxfoo or wpd=Wikipedia template namespace) should be expressed respectively.
   
   • The local category name is in all cases NOT shown or link (it's skipped by testing the 'sitename magic word'), so defining the local mnemonic will have no side effect.
   
   • Defining it in any case does no harm, and can be an aid to updating all the sisters sharing the category type, so the same form of the template can be used with simple cut and paste edits, in succession.
   
   

• Defining the ALL parameter ("|All=something, anything|..." will turn on All the possible links—this can be used to test cross-sister for an equivalent category name (or category type or purpose, with more navigation) on the other sisters.
  • Defining ALL={{PAGENAME}} is the most efficacious and efficient of using this feature to poll for similar category names sister to sister.

Technical note: This template depends on mnemonically named subtemplates for proper logic and link formation. In quasi-alphabetical order (by matching sister project nicknames) these are:

{{CMS}} / {{MDW}} / {{MTA}} / {{SIM}}‡ / {{WBK}} / {{WDY}} / {{WJR}}‡ / {{WQT}} / {{WNW}} / {{WPD}} / {{WSR}} / {{WSP}} / {{WVY}}

Corresponding to the Wikimedia Foundation projects:

The commons, Mediawiki, Meta, Simple, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikijunior, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikispecies, and Wikiversity.

‡ - means not currently implemented