Template:BookCat
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This template puts the page on which it's used ({{FULLPAGENAME}}) into appropriate categories, based on certain page-naming and page-categorization conventions.
Usage
When used without parameters, it
- places subpages of a book in the book's category (
Category:Book:) and sorts them by chapter name.{{BOOKNAME}} - places a book's templates in the book's template category (
Category:Book:). This only does the right thing if a book's templates begin with{{BOOKNAME}}/TemplatesTemplate:.{{BOOKNAME}} - places a book's template category in the book's category and in
Category:Book-specific templates. - places any other category in its parent, sorted by the category's last name. The parent has the same name except removing everything from the last slash on; and the last name is the part that was removed after that last slash. For example,
Category:My Book/Imageswould go inCategory:My Bookwith sort keyImages.
Parameters
Optional parameter filing=deep changes the behavior on book pages, so that a book page with more than one slash in its name is placed in a subcategory of the category where its parent page would be placed, sorted by the page's last name. For example, using {{BookCat|filing=deep}} on page My Book/Maps/Asia would put that page in Category:My Book/Maps with sort key Asia .
Optional parameter template-filing=deep changes the behavior on template pages to deep filing (so Template:My book/Maps/Asia would go in Category:My book/Templates/Maps).
Optional parameter sort or sortkey specifies a sort key to be used for categorization instead of relying on {{BOOKSORTKEY}}.
Optional first unnamed parameter is a full page name to use instead of the {{FULLPAGENAME}} of the current page.
An alternative template {{BookCat/diagnose}} reports the output of {{BookCat}} (with or without parameters) as an inert string, rather than categorizing the current page.
Examples
| page where called | result |
|---|---|
| Taxi Tongue/Dialogue 4 |
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| Chess/Puzzles/Directmates |
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| Wikijunior:Biology |
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| Wikijunior:Dinosaurs/Apatosaurus |
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| Wikijunior talk:Bugs/Shield Bug |
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| Category:Horticulture/Templates/Boxes |
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| Category:Book:Wikijunior:Solar System/Templates |
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| Template:Wikijunior:Solar System/coolfacts |
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| User:Pi zero/Conlang/Beginner/Sounds |
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| User:Pi zero/sandbox/Conlang/Beginner/Sounds |
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| Category:User:Pi zero/sandbox/Conlang/Beginner/Sounds |
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| Template:User:Pi zero/sandbox/Conlang/Beginner/Sounds |
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| Shelf:Physical sciences |
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| Template:Shelf:Page |
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| Template:Shelf:Page/display |
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Internals
This template itself only contains the logic to sort out the identity of the target page; deducing the appropriate categorization is then delegated to {{BookCat/core}}. As of this writing, parameters assembled here are namespace, pagename, fullpagename, and sortkey; the first unnamed parameter is removed, and all other parameters are passed through to the subtemplate.
See also
- See Using Wikibooks/Shelves, Categories, and Classifications#Deep filing (advanced) for more information.
- Instances are listed at
- {{BOOKCATEGORY}} is closely related.