Template:Broader/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Broader.
It contains usage information, categories, interlanguage links, and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Shortcut: {{more}}

This template uses Module:Broader, a script written in the Lua programming language.

This template is used to make summary style explicit. It looks like this:

It is used in sections for which there is also a separate article on the subject.

Usage

Basic usage

{{broader|article}}

With a topic

{{broader|article|topic}}

All parameters

{{broader|article|topic|selfref=yes|category=no}}

Parameters

This template accepts the following parameters:

1 - the page to link to (required). Categories and files are automatically escaped with the colon trick, and links to sections are automatically formatted as page § section, rather than the MediaWiki default of page#section.
2 - the name of the topic. If this is not specified, the text "this topic" is used.
selfref - if set to "yes", "y", "true" or "1", adds the CSS class "selfref". This is used to denote self-references to LIMSwiki. See Template:Selfref for more information.
category - if set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This only has an effect if the first positional parameter (the page to link to) is omitted.

Examples

{{broaderLaboratory informatics}} →
{{broader|Laboratory informatics|the application of technology to labs}} →

Errors

If no page name is supplied, the template will output the following message:

Error: no page name specified (help).

If you see this error message, it is for one of four reasons:

No parameters were specified (the template code was {{broader}}). Please use {{broader|page}} instead.
Some parameters were specified, but the page name wasn't included. For example, the template text {{broader|selfref=yes}} will produce this error. Please use (for example) {{broader|page|selfref=yes}} instead.
The page name was specified, but it contains an equals sign ("="). The equals sign has a special meaning in template code, and because of this it cannot be used in template parameters that do not specify a parameter name. For example, the template code {{broader|2+2=4}} will produce this error. To work around this, you can specify the parameter name explictly by using 1= before the page name, like this: {{broader|1=2+2=4}}.
You tried to access Module:Broader directly by using {{#invoke:broader|broader|text}}. Use of #invoke in this way has been disabled for performance reasons. Please use {{broader|text}} instead.