Template:Documentation/doc

This is the documentation page for Documentation. It contains usage information, categories, and other content not part of the original template page.
Main	Documentation	Usage

This template is used on 294 pages, or on about 2.82% of all pages.

Edits to this template will be widely noticed. To avoid large-scale disruption and unnecessary server load, any changes to this template should be tested in its sandbox or testcases subpages, or in your own user space. The tested changes can then be added to this page in one single edit.

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This template uses Module:Documentation, a script written in Lua.

This template uses CSS found at MediaWiki:Gadget-Documentation.css.

This template is used to insert documentation to template pages.

Syntax

• {{Documentation}} will produce the documentation template.
• {{Documentation|foo}} will fill in the documentation from the "foo" template.
• {{Documentation|content = This template does something}} will fill in the documentation with the content "This template does something." (not recommended except for very, very short documentation)
• {{Documentation|heading = Important information}} will replace the default heading with "Important information".
• {{Documentation|type = category}} will add the "category Templates" category.

Template Data

This template is used to insert descriptions on template pages.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Custom Documentation Page	1	Page containing the documentation Default {{FULLPAGENAME}}/doc	Page name	optional
Heading	heading	Custom heading Default [[File:Template-icon.svg|50px|link=|alt=Documentation icon]] Documentation	Line	optional
Preload Page	preload	The page to preload if the `/doc` subpage doesn't exist. Default Template:Documentation/preload	Page name	optional
Content	content	Custom documentation content, prevents transclusion of `/doc` subpage.	Content	optional
Type	type	Category to categorize template in.	String	suggested