Template:Main other
This is the {{main other}} meta-template.
It helps other templates detect what type of page they are on.
Basic usage
This template usually takes two parameters, like this:
{{main other | Article text | Other pages text }}
If the template is on a main space (article) page, it will return this:
- Article text
If the template is on any other page, it will return this:
- Other pages text
A typical usage case could be to make it so that a template only adds a category when on an article. Thus not adding other pages that just show the template to the category. Like this:
{{main other | [[Category:Some article fix-up category]] }}
Or to warn that a template should not be used on other pages:
{{main other | | This template should only be used in articles. }}
Note that in the first case above the "other" parameter was not used, and in the second example the "main" parameter was left empty.
Advanced usage
This template works like {{main talk other}}, see full documentation there. Note that it detects article "Talk:" pages as type other. The test parameter demospace for this template understands the values main and other.
See also
Easy to use namespace-detection templates:
- {{main other}} – For article templates.
- {{talk other}} – For talk page templates.
- {{file other}} – For file (image) templates.
- {{template other}} – For detecting template pages.
- {{category other}} – For category templates.
- {{main talk other}} – Separates some namespaces.
- {{main talk category other}} – Separates some more namespaces.
- {{namespace detect}} – The very versatile one.
- {{namespace detect showall}} – The extremely versatile one.
- {{talkspace detect}} - For detecting talk pages on various namespaces.
Technical stuff:
- Wikipedia:Namespace – Lists all the namespaces.
- mw:Help:Magic words – About
{{NAMESPACE}}etc. - mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions – About
{{#ifeq:|||}}etc.
