Template:MetaCat
 | This meta category should only contain other categories. Files should either be in the relevant subcategory or in the parent category. |
Use this tag for Meta categories only, that should only contain other categories that are grouped by a specified criterion.
The template automatically sets the following categories:
- Meta categories; depending on the parameters, it may autocategorize into one or more categories. Currently, only specific input makes it autocategorize as this is a work in progress but soon to be generalized.
- Categories by ... (flat list) (in one of those)
Usage
Important: The parameters are case-sensitive because they are used to form category names. Always use lower case unless it's a proper noun.
The template takes no parameters.
Additional information
The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the Category namespace
The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users
Placement: At the top of the page
See also
- Commons:List of meta category criteria – a list of the "by xxx" currently in use.
- Commons:Categories requiring diffusion – tabular listing
More general templates with similar purpose:
- {{Categorise}} – Use this just for tagging main categories requiring permanent control; that is use on (non-meta) main categories that also shouldn't contain files directly (or very little).
(Tagged categories are automatically inserted into Category:Categories requiring permanent diffusion.) - {{CatDiffuse}} – temporary tag when a category needs files sorted into subcategories because it's overcrowded.
- {{CatCat}} – Used when a main category should contain no files but only other categories, but is not part of a Meta-categorization schema of 'XXX by YYY' form.
- {{ValiCat}} – Used when a main category should contain no files but only subcategories like "Valid SVG created with" or "Invalid SVG created with"
- {{FlatCat}}
- {{Template category}}
- in general…
- For categories to get sorted once use {{CatDiffuse}}, for metacategories ("by country", "by name" etc.) use {{MetaCat}} or its more specialized variants.
Localization
العربية ∙ Boarisch ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ Esperanto ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ hrvatski ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ Lëtzebuergesch ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ မြန်မာဘာသာ ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk nynorsk ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ svenska ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 中文 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體）
This template makes use of {{Autotranslate}} and the translate extension. The layout of the template can be found under Template:MetaCat/layout.
