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This is a  documentation subpage for Template:Hidden category.It contains usage information, categories and other content or metadata that is not part of the original template. |
Note: This template is used on a lot of pages. In order not to put too much load on the servers, edits should be kept to a bare minimum.
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Editing a template causes all pages that use the template to be re-rendered. If the Template is used often, this can put a lot of load on the servers since it fills up the job queue. [statistics]
Please discuss proposed changes on the talk page first.
Editing a template causes all pages that use the template to be re-rendered. If the Template is used often, this can put a lot of load on the servers since it fills up the job queue. [statistics]
Usage
This should be placed on the category page that you wish to be hidden. It includes the __HIDDENCAT__ magic word, so that does not need to be added to pages that already have the {{hidden category}} template.
Criteria are given at Wikipedia:Categorization § Hiding categories and Category:Hidden categories.
TemplateData
This is the 
TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.
TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.
TemplateData for Hidden category
{
"params": {},
"description": "This template should be placed on the category page that you wish to be hidden. No parameters are required."
}
See also
- Wikipedia:Categorization § Wikipedia administrative categories
- Archived discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 24 § HIDDENCAT
Other category-header templates