Module:WikiProject banner/doc explained

can be used to create WikiProject banners, enabling new projects to easily create a banner to place on article talk pages, ensuring standardisation between projects. A list of all WikiProject banners using this meta-template can be found here.

As this is a meta template, it should not be transcluded directly on to talk pages when you want to tag a page. Instead, use the template provided by the WikiProject.

WikiProject banners are categorised into a subcategory of . It is not necessary to include a category link in the documentation for each project banner. Any project banners with issues are automatically added to .

Syntax

The template can be used at varying levels of complexity, from the very simple to the extremely complicated. Simple options are listed here first, with complexity increasing down the page.

Two different types of parameters are used: formatting and display:

• Formatting parameters customise the meta-template for a particular project, defining link targets, categories, images, and text. All formatting parameters use UPPERCASE and underscores (_) instead of spaces, for example <nowiki>|PROJECT=</nowiki> and <nowiki>|NOTE_1_CAT=</nowiki>.
• Display parameters customise the template output for each individual article that the banner is displayed on. These are the parameters which are entered on the talk page (<nowiki>|class=</nowiki>, <nowiki>|importance=</nowiki>, etc.) and they must be 'passed through' the project banner to the meta-template underneath. To 'pass' the parameter foo, you need to include the code or (alternate) <nowiki>[[tulip]]s, [[liliaceae]] and related articles</nowiki> → "...the coverage of tulips, liliaceae and related articles on Wikipedia..."
• '''PORTAL'''  - if the WikiProject maintains a portal, define this parameter with the portal name. The associated image is held centrally at .
• '''MAIN_CAT'''  - the default is no main category created; if defined, all pages displaying the template will be sorted into Category:MAIN_CAT.
  • '''IMPORTANCE_SCALE'''  - configures the importance scale, if used. The possible options are:
    • standard  - enables the 'standard' importance scale (Top, High, Mid, Low, NA and Unknown). (This is the default behaviour.)
    • inline  - allows for a simple custom importance scale to be defined, generally with .
    • subpage  - allows for a more complex custom importance scale to be used using a subpage called /importance.
• '''ASSESSMENT_LINK'''  - the link to a WikiProject-specific quality (and/or importance) scale. If there is a page at "Wikipedia:WikiProject <PROJECTLINK>/Assessment" then this will be used by default. To override this, you can set this parameter to no.
• '''ASSESSMENT_CAT'''  - articles are sorted into categories based on their quality; so "Featured Articles" on Tulips would be categorised by default into . To change the default, define this parameter so that featured articles are instead categorised into Category:FA-Class .

Example

Produces:

Alerts and notes

Built into the module is the ability to display a number of other fields that contain useful information about the article. There are also three predefined fields for:

1. articles which have been automatically assessed by a bot (see above);
2. articles in need of immediate attention;
3. articles in need of an infobox.

The parameters are:

• '''attention'''  - pass this parameter through to enable the use of the attention note.