Template:Commons-gallery

This template will link to a commons gallery page in several modes

(note how the bold text wraps to the template)

1. of the same name as the pagename of the article, should the two match, this requires no parameters be passed:
   {{commons-gallery}}
2. of the gallery name as given, this requires One parameter be passed:
   {{commons-gallery|Some gallery name}}
3. of the gallery name as given, but redirected to an English name equivalent. This requires two names be given as parameters:
   {{commons-gallery|Some gallery name|An Name in English}} (This is most likely use... many foreign wikipedia's are far more active in building galleries than we English wikipedians. It's almost as if most of us don't know Wikimedia Commons exists, and the naming guidelines, being a multilingual site, permit non-English names in all spaces outside of Commons:categories, which by fiat, are all in English. Thus many English 'gallery names' need defined as redirects.

[edit] Option parameters

The template also holds three named (option) parameters to change modes

• 'ALTTEXT=' Will supplant most of the boilerplate line with inserted text. The combined output will read: 'See our' {{{ALTTEXT}}}. linkname [This is especially useful for Commons Atlas collections, for which the link name provides it's own title. Define ALTTEXT as a 'colon', and you're likely done.
  
  
• 'R=', standing for 'R'ight, which floats the template to the page right side, not the page left side as the default shown above.
  Example: {{{commons-gallery|galleryname}}
  This mode may also be selected using the parameter names 'right', 'r', and 'Right'.
  

• 'C' (or 'c'), standing for 'C'ategory, which directs the link formed to Wikimedia Commons category namespaces.

Categories: Exported templates used only on Mediawiki commons | Interwiki utility templates