finiki:Global templates effort/Needed templates

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Needed templates is an outdated part of MediaWiki's Template repository project. It has been copied here as it provides a somewhat useful dependency diagram for some key (core) underlying templates (and modules). It is based on MediaWiki's implementation, which does differ from Wikipedia's versions of some (most?) of the templates/modules, so care must be taken to not use it too literally.

Wikipedia vs MediaWiki for importing

There are primarily two reasons we import templates/modules from Wikipedia, NOT MediaWiki.

First and foremost, wiki readers are used to the 'look and feel' of Wikipedia, generally only editors and admins read on MediaWiki. Many templates on MediaWiki look very different than Wikipedia's. You can see the difference if you compare Wikipedia's Template:Documentation with MediaWiki's Template:Documentation.

The other reason is how languages and translation is handled. Since we are an English language wiki, all Wikipedia references are to the English version of Wikipedia, i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page so the coding for the most part does not have any language or translation dependencies. This particularly applies to the {{Documentation subpage}}.

Needed templates

Corresponding Existing MW Templates

This is a list of existing MW templates that would probably be included along with their required dependencies.

Type	Template	Description	Dependencies	Images
Mbox			Template:Delete Template:Deprecated	File:Unbalanced scales.svg File:Wikitext.svg File:Merge-arrows.svg File:Gnome globe current event.svg File:Nuvola apps bookcase.svg File:Shuttle.svg
	`{{ambox}}`	Article message box.	Template:Ambox Template:Ambox/core Template:Category handler Template:Documentation subpage Template:Mbox Template:Mbox templates Template:Namespace detect Template:Nmbox Template:Ombox Template:Ombox/core Template:Tl Template:Tlx
	`{{cmbox}}`	Category message box.	Template:! Template:Badge Template:Border-radius Template:Clear Template:Documentation subpage Template:Mbox Template:Mbox templates Template:Namespace detect Template:Nmbox Template:Ombox Template:Ombox/core Template:Shortcut Template:Shortcut/layout Template:Tl Template:Tlx
	`{{imbox}}`	Image message box.	Template:! Template:Documentation subpage Template:Imbox Template:Mbox Template:Mbox templates Template:Namespace detect Template:Nmbox Template:Ombox Template:Ombox/core Template:Tl Template:Tlx Template:Yesno
	`{{ombox}}`	Other pages message box.	Template:! Template:Badge Template:Border-radius Template:Clear Template:Documentation subpage Template:Mbox Template:Mbox templates Template:Namespace detect Template:Nmbox Template:Ombox Template:Ombox/core Template:Shortcut Template:Shortcut/layout Template:Tl Template:Tlx	File:Emblem-question-yellow.svg File:Gnome globe current event.svg File:Nuvola apps bookcase.svg File:Blue check.svg File:Nutshell.png File:Some image.svg File:Crystal package settings.png File:Replacement filing cabinet.svg
	`{{tmbox}}`	Talk page message box.	Template:Documentation subpage Template:Mbox Template:Mbox templates Template:Namespace detect Template:Nmbox Template:Ombox Template:Ombox/core Template:Tl Template:Tlx Template:Tmbox Template:Tmbox/core
	`{{Mbox templates}}`		Template:Nmbox Template:Tl Template:Tlx
	`{{asbox}}`	Article stub box (Unused Template).
	`{{dmbox}}`	Disambiguation footer message box.	Template:! Template:Category handler Template:Category handler/blacklist Template:Category handler/numbered Template:Dmbox Template:Documentation subpage Template:High-risk Template:If pagename Template:Mbox Template:Mbox templates Template:Namespace detect Template:Nmbox Template:Nowrap Template:Ombox Template:Ombox/core Template:Tl Template:Tlx
	`{{fmbox}}`	Footer & Header message box	Template:Documentation subpage Template:Fmbox Template:Mbox Template:Namespace detect Template:Ombox Template:Ombox/core	File:Cmbox deletion.png File:Imbox notice.png
Wikipedia:Template:Navboxes	`{{Navbox_suite}}`		Wikipedia:Template:Sidebar Wikipedia:Template:Para
	`{{Navbar}}`	Adds navbar navigational functionality.
	`{{Navbox_subgroup}}`	Allows the creation of subgroups that can be assigned to a list item within `{{Navbox}}`. A subgroup may contain up to 20 list items.
	`{{Navbox_with_collapsible_groups}}`	Produces a navigation template that has groups of relevant articles on a certain topic. All groups are hidden by default. However, with a parameter call, an individual group can be shown that has the other articles in the same group.
	`{{Navbox_with_columns}}`	Presents its content in columns.
Template:Documentation			Template:Documentation/docspace Template:Documentation/end box2 Template:Documentation/start box Template:Documentation/start box2 Template:Documentation/template page Template:Documentation_subpage

Dependencies

There needs to a difference between whether the dependency is required for the template itself or rather the template documentation. If it is for the template documentation, is it necessary?

Template name	Description
Template:!
Template:Badge
Template:Border-radius	This template is a shortcut for producing rounded corners. It generates the CSS for various browsers. Supported browsers are the current versions of Opera, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer 9.
Template:Category handler	This is the {{category handler}} meta-template. It helps other templates to automate both categorization and category suppression.
Template:Category handler/blacklist
Template:Category handler/numbered
Template:Clear
Template:High-risk	"This template is used on a very large number of pages."
Template:If pagename	Helps other templates detect what page they are on. It uses pattern matching on the pagename.
Template:Mbox templates
Template:Namespace detect	Helps other templates detect what type of page they are on.
Template:Nowrap
Template:Shortcut
Template:Shortcut/layout
Template:Tl	Redirects to Template:Tlx
Template:Tlx	This template creates example usage syntax for a template, and links the name to the template page. The "SISTER" parameter specifies an interwiki prefix to link to another wiki.
Template:Yesno	Normalises an input to be a yes/no output.
Template:File_other
Template:File_title
Template:TOC
Template:Template other
Template:Information

Warning: One variable.

Ambox: AKA cleanup/article message box. Could be same as warning?; No variables

Tip: One variable

User welcome: For user talk pages; No variables (put names external to template)?

Edit request: For protected pages - put on talk page; No variables - acts as a "tag" and people put their request below.

Inline: aka "citation needed"; no variables.

Licenses: no variables.

Ratings: Like WikiProject talk page templates; a small number of variables.

Userboxes: No variables.

Pedagogical templates: to develop Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Documentation: no variables; include { {SUBJECTPAGENAME} }/doc, and allow editing it

Template dependencies

These are templates and images that exist solely as variable dependencies for the above Templates. Without these, the above templates would not work.

Variables

TBD

Images