Template:Subject bar/doc

This navigational template offers a variant to several floating box templates that link to portals, and Wikipedia's sister projects but also typically cause formatting issues because of their size and alignment.

It is intended to be placed at the end of an article, after the references, external links, navboxes and before any authority control template or categories.

Usage

No single parameter is required, however, at least one portal or sister project should be utilized with the use of this template. Since Wikipedia articles typically are in the domain of one or more WikiProjects, and since WikiProjects often have a portal, almost every article should list at least one portal. None of the parameters should be capitalized.

Parameters

When copying all parameters in either the vertical or horizontal layouts, delete those which are not needed. If no links are needed for a particular type, such as the historical "books", that part of the template will not appear on the page.

Parameter meanings (quick list). Alphabetical order: b: Wikibooks. commons: WikiMedia Commons. d: Wikidata. n: Wikinews. q: Wikiquote. s: Wikisource. species: Wikispecies. v: Wikiversity. voy: Wikivoyage. wikt: Wiktionary.

All parameters, horizontal. Parameters in order they show up in subject bar.

{{Subject bar|commons = y|species = y|voy = y|n = y|wikt = y|b = y|q = y|s = y|v = y|d = y|portal = }}

All parameters, horizontal. In alphabetical order, except for portal which is often removed.

{{Subject bar|b = |commons = |d = |n = |q = |s = |species = |v = |voy = |wikt = |portal = }}

All parameters, vertical. In alphabetical order, except for portal which is often removed.

{{Subject bar
 |b              = 
 |commons        = 
 |d              = 
 |n              = 
 |q              = 
 |s              = 
 |species        = 
 |v              = 
 |voy            = 
 |wikt           =  
 |portal         = 
}}

Parameters explained

b

Wikibooks page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

commons

WikiMedia Commons page (or Category:) to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

d

Wikidata page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

n

Wikinews page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

q

Wikiquote page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

s

Wikisource page (or Author:) to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

species

Wikispecies page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

v

Wikiversity page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

voy

Wikivoyage page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

wikt

Wiktionary page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

Other parameters

portal

Use portal### where ### is any number to link to a portal

auto

set |auto=1 to use Wikidata to find sister links

search

override default search string (= title of page)

display

set the display string on the sister links bar

commonscat

link to Commons category instead of gallery

author

link to Species author instead of taxon

Note: positional arguments are interpreted as portals, will be appended after any named portal arguments.

Examples

Example. Simplest.

auto=1: try this first to look sister project links up in wikidata

Markup

{{Subject bar|auto=1}}

Result (if used on Lemur)

Example page: Lemur

Markup

{{Subject bar|commons= Category:Lemuriformes|species = Lemuriformes|portal1 = Primates|portal2 = Madagascar}}

Result

Example page: Ring-tailed lemur

Markup

{{Subject bar|portal1 = Primates|portal2 = Madagascar|commons = Category:Lemur catta |species = Lemur catta|n = Ring-tailed lemur|wikt = Lemur|b = Ring-tailed lemur|q = Ring-tailed lemur|s = Ring-tailed lemur|v = Ring-tailed lemur|voy = Madagascar}}

Result

Portal bar

{{Portal bar}} is a subset of {{Subject bar}}, where only positional arguments are allowed. For example:

Markup

{{Portal bar|COVID-19|Medicine|Viruses}}

Result

See also

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sister projects
• {{Commons}}
• {{Commons category}}
• {{Commons category multi}}
• {{Commons and category}}
• {{Commons-inline}}
• {{Commons category-inline}}
• {{Portal}}
• {{Portal bar}}
• {{Sister project links}}
• {{Cross-wiki user}}

TemplateData

TemplateData documentation used by VisualEditor and other tools

Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Subject bar This template adds a bar of portals and sister links. It is usually used just above an article's navboxes. Template parameters Parameter Description Type Status portal1 portal1 1 The first portal, without surrounding text. For example, use "Science" to display the science portal. Line optional portal2 portal2 2 The second portal. Line optional portal3 portal3 3 The third portal. Line optional portal4 portal4 4 The fourth portal Line optional portal5 portal5 5 The fifth portal. Line optional Use wikidata to fill sister link defaults auto If auto="yes", then sister projects with wikidata sitelinks are filled-in, others are off by default. Each project can be overridden with its own parameter. String optional Display name display Use if the ''display name'' is different from the search term. For example, the bear article would be 'Bears'. String optional Search string search String to search in sister projects. Default Page title String optional Commons category commonscat Use if link to Commons category is desired instead of gallery. String optional Wikispecies author author Use if link to Wikispecies author is desired instead of taxon. String optional Wiktionary link wikt wikt-search Wiktionary link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, "yes" (find page automatically) and "no". Default No String optional Commons link commons c c-search commons-search Commons link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, "yes" (find page automatically) and "no". Default No String optional Wikinews link n n-search Wikinews link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, "yes" (find page automatically) and "no". Default No String optional Wikiquote link q q-search Wikiquote link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, "yes" (find page automatically) and "no". Default No String optional Wikisource link s s-search Wikisource link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, "yes" (find page automatically) and "no". Default No String optional Wikibooks link b b-search Wikibooks link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, "yes" (find page automatically) and "no". Default No String optional Wikivoyage link voy voy-search Wikivoyage link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, "yes" (find page automatically), and "no". Default No String optional Wikiversity link v v-search Wikiversity link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, "yes", (find page automatically) and "no". Default No String optional Wikidata link d d-search Wikidata link to show. Acceptable values are a QID, "yes" (find page automatically), and "no". Default No String optional Wikispecies taxon link species species-search Wikispecies link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, "yes" (find page automatically), and "no". The default is "No". Default No String optional