ਫਰਮਾ:Wikipedia how to
 | This essay is a how-to guide detailing process on some aspect or aspects of Wikipedia's norms and practices. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines; where something is inconsistent with this page, please defer to those. |
- Note: For articles use the {{howto}} template instead.
This is the {{Wikipedia how to}} message box.
It can be placed on top of non-article pages where relevant. This usually means pages in the "Wikipedia:" and "Help:" namespaces, but sometimes how-to guides also exist as user subpages.
Usage
[ਸੋਧੋ]This template can be used as is. Like this:
{{Wikipedia how to}}
But it can also take up to five shortcuts as parameters. It then displays a small shortcut box inside it. Like this:
{{Wikipedia how to|WP:SHORT}}
Then it looks like this:
| This essay is a how-to guide detailing process on some aspect or aspects of Wikipedia's norms and practices. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines; where something is inconsistent with this page, please defer to those. |
If you want to feed more than one or two shortcuts then the shortcut box becomes too high, which doesn't look good. Then we recommend instead placing a {{shortcut}} box directly below this template. Like this:
{{Wikipedia how to}}
{{shortcut|WP:SHORT|WP:SHORT2}}
Technical details
[ਸੋਧੋ]If a page that use this template is in the Wikipedia or Help namespace, then this template adds Category:Wikipedia how-to.
If you want to just demonstrate this template on a Wikipedia or Help page, then you can feed "nocat = true" to stop this template from categorizing.
There is an optional parameter sort-by which sets the category sort key:
{{Wikipedia how to|sort-by=Example}}
where "Example" is replaced by the sort text. For example, if the how-to page is Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet and you want it category sorted to appear under "X", then the template could be formulated as:
{{Wikipedia how to|sort-by=Xplanet, Producing maps with}}
See also
[ਸੋਧੋ]{{howto}}– The how-to cleanup/dispute tag for articles.{{Information page}}- header templates for similar pages that are more informational than instructional- Wikipedia:Template messages/Project namespace – For other "Wikipedia:"-namespace header templates.