Template:Main other/doc

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.