Template:Further/doc

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This template is used to link to articles containing further information on a topic. It looks like this:

It is typically used at the top of a section, when the topic of that section is covered in more detail by another page. It is useful for implementing summary style. The corresponding template for use on category pages is {{Cat more}}

Usage

One article
{{further|Iowa Highway 1}}
More than one article
{{further|Iowa Highway 1|Iowa Highway 2|Iowa Highway 3}}
With a topic
{{further|topic=TOPIC|Iowa Highway 1|Iowa Highway 2}}
All parameters
{{further|topic=TOPIC|Iowa Highway 1|Iowa Highway 2#SECTION|selfref=yes|category=no|label1=LABEL1}}

Parameters

This template accepts the following parameters:

  • 1, 2, 3, ... - the pages to link to. At least one page name is required. Categories and files are automatically escaped with the colon trick, and links to sections are automatically formatted as page § section, rather than the MediaWiki default of page#section.
  • label1, label2, label3 ... alternative output labels for the corresponding linked pages. Aliases "label N" (with a space) and "lN" (short) are also available.
  • topic - the name of the topic
  • selfref - if set to "yes", "y", "true" or "1", adds the CSS class "selfref". This is used to denote self-references to Wikipedia. See Template:Selfref for more information.
  • category - if set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This only has an effect if the first positional parameter (the page to link to) is omitted.

Interwiki links

To link to articles on foreign language Wikipedias, use interwiki links, prefixing the page name in the foreign Wikipedia with the required interwiki language code:

Basic interwiki links to articles in Spanish and German
{{further|es:PÁGINA1|de:SEITE2}}
Multiple interwiki links with language names

Note that you can use the TOPIC and LABEL parameters in combination to produce this effect:

{{Further|topic=Eero Heinonen, in|de:Eero Heinonen|es:Eero Heinonen|fi:Eero Heinonen|l1=German|l2=Spanish|l3=Finnish}}

Errors

If no page names are supplied, the template will output the following message:

  • Error: no page names specified (help).

If you see this error message, it is for one of four reasons:

  1. No parameters were specified (the template code was {{further}}). Please use {{further|page}} instead.
  2. Some parameters were specified, but no page names were included. For example, the template text {{further|selfref=yes}} will produce this error. Please use (for example) {{further|page|selfref=yes}} instead.
  3. A page name was specified, but it contains an equals sign ("="). The equals sign has a special meaning in template code, and because of this it cannot be used in template parameters that do not specify a parameter name. For example, the template code {{further|1+1=2|2+2=4}} will produce this error. To work around this, you can specify the parameter name explicitly by using 1=, 2, etc., before the page name, like this: {{further|1=1+1=2|2=2+2=4}}.
  4. You tried to access the module directly by using {{#invoke:(module name)|further|text}}. Use of #invoke in this way has been disabled for performance reasons. Please use {{(module name)|text}} instead.

Pages that contain this error message are tracked in Category:Hatnote templates with errors.

See also


TemplateData documentation used by VisualEditor and other tools
See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Further in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Further

<templatedata> { "description": "Template used to link to pages containing further information on a topic. Produces the output \"Further information: page 1, page 2 and page 3\".", "params": { "1": { "label": "Page 1", "description": "The name of the first page that you want to link to.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "required": true }, "2": { "label": "Page 2", "description": "The name of the second page that you want to link to.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "required": false }, "3": { "label": "Page 3", "description": "The name of the third page that you want to link to. More pages can be added using the parameters \"4\", \"5\", \"6\", etc.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "required": false }, "selfref": { "type": "string/line", "label": "Self reference", "description": "Set to \"yes\" if the template is a self-reference to Wikipedia that would not make sense on mirrors or forks of the Wikipedia site." }, "category": { "label": "Category", "description": "Set to \"no\", \"n\", \"false\", or \"0\" to suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This only has an effect if no page names are specified." }, "label1": { "aliases": [ "label 1", "l1" ], "label": "Label 1", "description": "The displayed label of the first page link", "type": "string" }, "label2": { "aliases": [ "label 2", "l2" ], "label": "Label 2", "description": "The displayed label of the second page link", "type": "string" }, "label3": { "aliases": [ "label 3", "l3" ], "label": "Label 3", "description": "The displayed label for the third page link. Labels for further pages can be added using the parameters \"label4\", \"label5\", \"label6\", etc.", "type": "string" } } } </templatedata>