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To invoke a etemplate called "My special article lister" for all pages which are members of category "Fictitious country" you would have to write the following
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To invoke a template called "My special article lister" for all pages which are members of category "Fictitious country" you would have to write the following
  
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<nowiki><pre>
 
<dpl>
 
<dpl>
 
category=Fictitious country
 
category=Fictitious country
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format=,\n* {{My special article lister|%PAGE%}}
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format=,{{My special article lister|%PAGE%}}
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</dpl>
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</pre></nowiki>
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The result could like this:
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<dpl>
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category=Fictitious country
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format=,{{My special article lister|%PAGE%}}
 
</dpl>
 
</dpl>

Revision as of 07:57, 29 August 2008

How can one apply a template to all pages of a certain category?

Sometimes you want to create a list of articles where each entry in the list points to an adress which is constructed from the article´s name. Basically, this means that you want to produce the equivalent of {{some template|1st page in category}}
{{some template|2nd page in category}}
{{some template|3rd page in category}}
...

Answer

To invoke a template called "My special article lister" for all pages which are members of category "Fictitious country" you would have to write the following

<pre> <dpl> category=Fictitious country format=,{{My special article lister|%PAGE%}} </dpl> </pre>

The result could like this:

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