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Template:Used in system Template:Lua Template:Uses TemplateStyles Template:Cite.php is the software extension for the footnotes system. Cite.php includes error checking and generates error messages using MediaWiki interface messages. When Cite.php encounters an error, it generates a message pulled from a MediaWiki interface page. The MediaWiki pages are customized to use Template:Tl to control the display of the error message and to add a category. Template:Tl uses namespace detection to choose whether pages are categorized or not and if error messages show or not.

Namespaces

This template causes error messages to show only in certain namespaces. Category sorting is set by a sortkey in the template.

Namespace	Sortkey	Uppercase
main (article)	alphabetic
category	γ	Γ
template	τ	Τ
file	ι	Ι
help	ω	Ω
portal	ρ	Ρ
wikipedia	ψ	Ψ
draft	δ	Δ

Errors on talk and other pages do not show by default but can be enabled by adding a rule to Template:Yourcss:

.mw-parser-output span.brokenref {
  display: inline;
}

Categories

The template causes pages that show and error to be placed in a maintenance category. Pages in these categories are then repaired by editors. Errors on talk and other pages do not add the category. Category management is done through Template:Tl.

• Category:Pages with citation errors: main category.
  • Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting: default category.
  • Category:Pages with broken reference names
    • MediaWiki:Cite error references no text
  • Category:Pages with missing references list
    • MediaWiki:Cite error group refs without references

Parameters

Error messages use:

• |msg= text of the error message
• |lang= language using ISO code
• |help= subpagename of help page. This parameter is also used to determine the category by Template:Broken ref/cat.
• |nocat= set to 'true' to suppress the category and the brokenref class; use when transcluding the WikiMedia interface page for documentation purposes

Prefix interface pages use:

• |prefix= text that precedes the message
• |lang= language using ISO code

Examples

Use the following example when editing MediaWiki error message pages:

{{broken ref
|msg=The <code><ref></code> tag has too many names
|lang=en
|help=Cite error ref too many keys
|nocat={{{nocat|}}}
}}

By including |nocat={{{nocat}}}, the |nocat= parameter can be passed to Template:Tl.

Transcluding error messages

When creating documentation, the error messages can be transcluded so that the messages are automatically updated. Add |nocat=true to suppress the error category and the class that hides the error in some namespaces. The message transclusion always adds a hard line break at the end.

To style the text in red to more closely simulate the message, use the Template:Tl template. Template:Markup

To style the text to exactly simulate the message, use the Template:Tl template. Template:Markup

Languages

These languages are supported. The list of languages is selected from the top uses at Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences. Language management is done through Template:Tl.

• en: English
• es: español
• fr: français
• pt-br: português do Brasil
• ru: русский
• de: Deutsch
• id: Bahasa Indonesia
• ar: العربية
• nl: Nederlands
• zh-cn: 中文（中国大陆）
• ro: română
• it: italiano
• tr: Türkçe

Plus the English variants:

• en-gb: British English
• en-ca: Canadian English

Originally these were transcluded, but not all MediaWiki pages support such transclusion.

Interface pages

Complete list of interface pages by language: