Template:Wfmessage

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Template documentation

This documentation is  transcluded from Template:Wfmessage/doc. (Edit | history)
Note to editors: Please don't categorize this template by editing it directly. Instead, place the category in its documentation page, in its "includeonly" section.

Usage

The Website flex message box template is a message box template like Template:Mbox but based on the style of the home page. It uses  CSS flexboxes to style the content.

Notes

A detailed documentation for each parameter is provided below. The type needs some visual explanation.

Syntax

{{Wfmessage
| type = 
| image = 
| text = 
| nocat = 
| categories = 
}}

Parameters

{
	"params": {
		"type": {
			"description": "basic style of the template",
			"example": "notice",
			"type": "string",
			"default": "notice",
			"suggested": true
		},
		"image": {
			"description": "name of an image to display before the text",
			"example": "example.png{{!}}alt=some example image",
			"type": "unbalanced-wikitext"
		},
		"text": {
			"description": "text shown in the message box",
			"type": "unbalanced-wikitext",
			"suggested": true
		},
		"edittext": {
			"description": "text shown below the other \"text\" but visible to users only (should be used to give some advice to editors)",
			"type": "unbalanced-wikitext"
		},
		"image2": {
			"description": "image shown after the text (to the right on LTR languages)",
			"example": "Example.svg{{!}}alt=an example file",
			"type": "unbalanced-wikitext",
			"default": "(none)"
		},
		"nocat": {
			"description": "insert any text to supress the categorisation",
			"type": "boolean",
			"default": "(empty)"
		},
		"categories": {
			"description": "categories to be added to a page using a template derived from this one",
			"example": "[[Category:Templates|~some sort key]]",
			"type": "unbalanced-wikitext"
		}
	},
	"description": "This is a messagebox like Ambox but based on the style of the OpenStreetMap webpage. ",
	"format": "block"
}

• type=advice

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Advice contains important information the user should take into consideration. This refers to import guidelines and others. It basically says "you should take that into consideration. Otherwise, you provoke a conflict or worse."

• type=content

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Content issues indicate problems arising from translations or cleanup necessities. Similarly, it can also be used for incomplete or dubious content. It suggests to "please double check what is written here".

• type=delete

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Type delete is used for content whose deletion is requested. That effectively limits its use to {{Delete}}. The intended message is "this may affect you soon".

• type=notice

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Notices are used for editing requests,  stubs, and general notices that may or may not be relevant to the user. It is basically an equivalent to "for your interest"/"FYI".

• type=structural

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This type indicates structural changes to one or multiple pages about a similar topic. For the ordinary reader, it should be understood as "this is some information in case you are interested in wiki matters". This would be used for {{Merge}}, {{Move}}, {{Split section}}, {{Delete proposal}} ...

Example

{{...}}

See also

• {{Ambox}} - stands for Article message box. This template is used in many pages.