Template:WikiProject Technology/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:WikiProject Technology.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 17,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Usage

The following is the full syntax used for placing this template on a talk page:

Technology C‑class

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C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
	This article has been marked as needing immediate attention.
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

This WikiProject banner template uses Module:WikiProject banner, a meta-template for easily creating and maintaining project banners. Please report any errors or feature requests to Module talk:WikiProject banner. Information or warnings about the template are below:

This banner template includes a link to Portal:Technology, and the accompanying image is File:Noun-technology.svg. See the instructions on how to change this.
Automatic parameter checking is enabled and pages with invalid parameters can be found in the tracking category.

Some of the assessment categories required for Technology do not currently exist, and should to be created to avoid redlinks appearing on talk pages. Alternatively, you may need to set or update the |ASSESSMENT_CAT= parameter in this template.

Category:Technology articles by quality – (create)
Category:FA-Class Technology articles – (create)
Category:A-Class Technology articles – (create)
Category:GA-Class Technology articles – (create)
Category:B-Class Technology articles – (create)
Category:C-Class Technology articles – (create)
Category:Start-Class Technology articles – (create)
Category:Stub-Class Technology articles – (create)
Category:List-Class Technology articles – (create)
Category:Unassessed Technology articles – (create)

The following categories are required for the banner to work correctly. Please either create these categories or adjust the banner so that they are not required.

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Optional parameters

Attention – set |Attention=yes if the article needs immediate attention from experienced editors. Use only if another parameter does not cover the need for attention; this should be used sparingly. It is strongly encouraged to also add a section to the talk page explaining what needs attention.
- This parameter populates Category:Technology articles needing attention.
class – valid values are fa, a, ga, b, c, start, stub, fl, list, na (case-insensitive). See the project's quality scale for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |class= blank or omit the parameter.
listas – This parameter, which is the equivalent of the DEFAULTSORT sortkey that should be placed on all biographical articles, is a sortkey for the article talk page (e.g. for Thomas Edison, use |listas=Edison, Thomas so that the talk page will show up in the E's and not the T's of the various assessment and administrative categories). This is important because it is one source used by those who set DEFAULTSORT on the article; consider also setting the DEFAULTSORT for the article when setting this parameter. For more information about this, please see Wikipedia:Categorization of people § Ordering names in a category.
If the article is using {{WikiProject banner shell}} then it is preferable to add |listas= to that template instead of a project banner template. Putting the parameter on more than one template is not required.
needs-photo – set |needs-photo=yes to mark the page as needing a photograph.
- This parameter populates Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of technology.
category – set |category=no if, and only if, a banner is being used for demonstration or testing purposes, to prevent unnecessary or undesirable categorization. Otherwise, omit this parameter.

Aliases

The parameters |needs-image=, |image-needed=, |photo-needed= and |image-requested= are recognised as aliases for |needs-photo=. If more than one is present, the order of precedence, from highest to lowest, is: |needs-photo= → |needs-image= → |image-needed= → |photo-needed= → |image-requested= . Parameters with lower precedence are ignored.