Template:Portal/doc

Usage
Basic usage &#123;&#123; |Portal 1 |Portal 2 |Portal 3 |... &#125;&#125;

All options &#123;&#123; | Portal 1 | Portal 2 | Portal 3 | ... | left = | margin = | break = | boxsize = | redlinks = &#125;&#125;

Location
Within articles, is meant to be placed at the top of the article's See also section. If there is no See also section, you may put it in the External links section instead; there is no need to create a new section just to house this template. If there is no External links section either, just put it below the article text in the place that seems most appropriate.

There are no particular rules about the placement of portals on other kinds of pages.

Image
The portal image names are stored in subpages of Module:Portal/images, organised by the first letter of the portal name. For example, the first letter of Portal:Africa is "A", so the image name is stored at Module:Portal/images/a. If there is an entry for a portal on the correct page then the corresponding image will be shown next to the portal link. If no image is found then File:Portal-puzzle.svg will be shown instead.

It is also possible to specify aliases for portal images. For example, the code produces the same image as the code. The "South Africa" alias is found on the page Module:Portal/images/aliases.

The image-detection algorithm is case-insensitive. For example, the code will produce the same image as the code  (although the portal links will be different). Portal names are stored in lower case in the image subpages, and input is converted to lower case before being checked.

To add new images to the list, please make a protected edit request at Template talk:Portal to get an administrator to edit the correct subpage for you. Portal images must be either in the public domain or available under a free license that allows commercial reuse and derivative works; fair-use images are not acceptable. The template Portal icon demonstration may be of use when deciding whether an image is suitable for use as a portal icon; it formats an image using the same size and style that the Portal template uses by default.

A list of portals and aliases of portals without icons can be found at User:Dreamy Jazz Bot/Portals needing icons. It is updated infrequently, so ping the bot owner to update the list.

Error tracking
If the is used incorrectly, the page will be added to a tracking category.

The tracking categories are not applied if any of the following is true:
 * 1) Tracking is specially disabled for that usage. This is done by setting the optional parameter tracking to any the following values: ,  ,
 * 2) the template is used on a page in any of these namespaces: Talk, User, User talk, Wikipedia talk, File talk, Template talk, Category talk, Portal talk, Draft, Draft talk, Module talk
 * 3) The title page on which the template is used includes any of the following case-insensitive strings: "/archive", "/doc", "/test"


 * Category:Portal templates without a parameter — (population )
 * Category:Portal templates with redlinked portals — (population )
 * Category:Portal templates with all redlinked portals — (population )

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TemplateData
 {	"description": "A template to create a list of portals", "params": { "1": {			"label": "Portal (1)", "description": "Inserts the portal image and text. Further portals can be added to the template by increasing the number", "type": "string", "required": true },		"2": {			"label": "Portal (2)", "description": "Insert the portal image and text", "type": "string" },		"3": {			"label": "Portal (3)", "inherits": "2" },		"left": { "label": "Side", "description": "If set to yes, the portal appears on the left side of the page instead of the right.", "type": "string", "default": "no" },		"margin": { "label": "Margin size", "description": "Alters the margin size. Any valid CSS margin is accepted", "type": "number" },		"break": { "label": "Line break", "description": "If set to yes, a line break is inserted after the portal name and before the word portal", "type": "string" },		"boxsize": { "label": "Box size", "description": "This sets a custom box width in pixels.", "type": "number" },		"type": {} },	"format": "block" } 

}}