Template:Category/Documentation

Template:Category is used to simplify the creation of links to categories.

Usage

It accepts one mandatory string parameter and one optional parameter:

• 1 is the name of an article in the category namespace.
• 2, can be arbitrary text, which will change the text presented by the link, or on eof three special options:
  • add adds the article to the same category it is linking to.
  • end adjusts the output, primarily for grammatical purposes.
  • lc returns the first parameter, but in all lower case.

Return

A normal Mediawiki category link, such as [[:Category:Admin]], returns:

Category:Admin

With no optional parameters, it returns a link to the category page, without the namespace prepended. For instance, {{Category|Admin}} returns:

Admin

If the second parameter is an arbitrary string, such as administrative, it returns:

administrative

If the second parameter is lc, it returns:

admin

If a second parameter is end, the return is modified: {{Category|Admin|end}} returns:

Admin category

A second parameter of add cannot be demonstrated, as it does not work in the template namespace.