Template:Interconnected template
 | This template is closely interconnected with other templates or pages.
This template may be closely connected to other templates, subtemplates, or modules; or have dependencies on config files, data files, or have dynamic documentation, or otherwise be closely interconnected with other pages. You are encouraged to familiarize yourself with its setup, and with related files, in particular, other page1. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, either in this template's sandbox, the general template sandbox, or your user space before changing anything here. |
This is the {{interconnected template}} message box. {{interconnected}} redirects here and can be used as alternative name for this template.
This template can be put at the top of the documentation for any templates that are tightly interconnected, i.e., having complex interrelations, with less obvious dependencies, combining different templates, modules, configs, or other pages, and so on.
This template's syntax is actually relatively simple.
This template adds templates to Category:Interconnected templates.
Usage
[change source]When this template is placed on a template's /doc page, please add this within <includeonly> tags so it only gets visible on the template page. The full code on the top of the /doc subpage can look like this:
{{documentation subpage}}
<includeonly>{{interconnected}}</includeonly>
Parameters
[change source]This template has one named, and four unnamed parameters; all optional:
|page=: to change the word template in the bold header ("This template...") to something else.|1=– name of a related template, module, config, or other page related to this one to be listed; add brackets if wikilinks are desired.|2=..|4=: name of additional related pages
Note: for internal documentation purposes, an unlimited number of unnamed parameters identifying related pages may be specified, but only the first four will be displayed.
Technical details
[change source]The text for the template itself can be found at {{Interconnected template/text}}.