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[edit] Purpose

{{Cat see also W2c}} (redirect form: {Cat see also Commons}) is used for small sets of see also information at the end of text headers on category pages to give cross-links to associated categories from en.wikipedia or antoher sister project to Mediawiki Commons, usually when category schemes either share common nodes, or fork off in different directions.

• 'Clean' Links are presented an auto-pipetricked (nice) form of [[Commons:Category:Category Name|Category Name]].

• If non-English wikipedians create a hard redirect in 'Category:Name In English' to the equivalent in their language, the links should also work interwiki across languages.

• The 'W2' suffix mirrors the interwiki utility template Template:Wpd (edit talk links history) which is work around for naming collisions (differing local usages on {{W}}). Text written using W2 (now Wpd) and the related converse Template:W2c (edit talk links history) (aka '{{cms}}') is portable across each sister.

[edit] Usage

     {{Cat see also W2c:|Category Name_1|optionalCategory Name_2|optionalCategory Name_nn|...|optionalCategory Name_ 40}}

• Up to 40 parameters are permitted: only the first is mandatory. All links refer to Commons category names, which is not necessarily the same, and frequently somewhat different than the en.wikipedia category scheme.
  • It is also however, frequently identical per efforts at uniformization and work at Meta-wiki.
  • This template is particularly useful for tying to image gallaries on a daughter not shared on en.wp.
• The list is dynamically generated so that a "&" is always placed between the final two entries.
• If more than 40 entries are supplied, a message will be displayed pointing out the run-over problem with the occurrence of the 41st.

Caution

Bad formatting: no newlines are permitted else the article links will be broken.

[edit] See also

• {{Main}}, to use when you have more than one main article.
• {{MainBold}}, same, but all are bold text.

Note:
     {{W2}} may no longer be available on Wikipedia itself.

• {{W2}} — 'Namesake' across sister projects to link to wikipedia in language of choice as if you entered [[W:articlename|articlename]]. (essentially a typing aide which is common to all {{W2|Wikipedia:sister projects|sister projects).
• {{Cat see also}} — model for this template, builds comma delimited list of categories of up to fifteen perameters cross-linking to categories, up, down, or across as needed.
• {{see also W2}} — interwiki version of this template to article space in wherever [[W:Name]] links in your browser default language. (en.wikipedia.org pages for English)
• {{catlst}} More flexible form of simpler Cat see also, allows message variation, HTML command coding, and will also take a parameter to allow use to connect to any sister project's namespaces, in the same compact list form.
• {{Template list}} A similar template to 'catlst', but which defaults to template namespace.
• {{See also}} -- a short form grandfather of those listed above limited to 15 links.
     ('Se also' has technical problems with specifying ':Category' spelt out, and these alternatives are far more convenient, as you need never spell it out at all!