Template:Administrative category
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This is an administrative category; it is used to keep Wikidata running smoothly. |
This template indicates that a category is administrative and not directly based on pages’ content.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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may be empty | empty | If the value is “yes”, it’s normal for the category to be empty, it should not be deleted even then.
| Line | optional |
tracking category key | tracking | Message key (shown on Special:TrackingCategory) for a standard Mediawiki tracking category. If this is set to a non-empty value, the 'empty' parameter is ignored.
| Line | optional |
Example
[edit]{{Administrative category|empty=yes}}
- renders as:
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This is an administrative category; it is used to keep Wikidata running smoothly. |
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Administrators: Please do not delete this category even though it is empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time. |
{{Administrative category|tracking=hidden-category-category}}
- renders as:
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This is an administrative category; it is used to keep Wikidata running smoothly. Pages may be automatically added to this hidden tracking category by the MediaWiki software (or by one of its installed and activated extensions) for the following reason: The category contains __HIDDENCAT__ in its page content, which prevents it from showing up in the category links box on pages by default. |
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Administrators: Please do not delete this category even though it is empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time. |
The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Administrative category/doc (edit | history). Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) page. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |