Many of the most used templates on Commons do not have documentation pages that meet current community standards. The task is to find an document such pages:
- Finding templates in need of documentation can be done with http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/6313 query (also copied to this page ).
- Documenting templates should follow best Commons practices and should include: using /doc subpage and Template:TemplateBox . All the categories should be at the /doc page and all the interwiki links should be done through wikidata. If edits need to be done to protected templates than a message should be left at the template talk page with Template:Edit_request. Documentation should include description of all the input parameters and might require studying the template code and the code of pages using it.
Recommended steps:
- Create Wikipedia account if you do not have one.
- Go to this page and pick a template you would like to work on.
- In most cases templates will only have "<noinclude>{{documentation}}</noinclude>" at the end that links to documentation which link to /doc subpage.
- If /doc subpage does not exist copy existing documentation somewhere and replace it with "<noinclude>{{documentation}}</noinclude>", then click on the red link to the /doc page. Once there use a link on the top to preload a TemplateBox with enough parameters and them merge old documentation into the page and expand it.
- If /doc subpage does exist but does not use TemplateBox, than add and fill the template. Preload pages here might be useful.
See also
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:TemplateData
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MostTranscludedPages for live examples.
This task is meant as "Google-Code-In-2015" project.