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This navigational template collects links to portals and sister projects and displays them in a bundled box. It is an alternative to adding several floating box templates, which typically cause formatting issues because of their size and alignment.

It is intended to be placed at the end of an article, after the references, external links, navboxes and before any authority control template or categories.

Usage

No single parameter is required, however, at least one portal or sister project should be utilized with the use of this template. Since Wikipedia articles typically are in the domain of one or more WikiProjects, and since WikiProjects often have a portal, almost every article should list at least one portal.

Parameters

When copying all parameters in either the vertical or horizontal layouts, delete those which are not needed. If no links are needed for a particular type, such as the historical "books", that part of the template will not appear on the page. None of the parameters should be capitalized.

Parameter meanings (quick list). Alphabetical order: b: Wikibooks. commons: WikiMedia Commons. d: Wikidata. q: Wikiquote. s: Wikisource. species: Wikispecies. v: Wikiversity. voy: Wikivoyage. wikt: Wiktionary.

All parameters, horizontal. Parameters in order they show up in subject bar.

{{Subject bar|commons = y|species = y|voy = y|wikt = y|b = y|q = y|s = y|v = y|d = y|portal = }}

All parameters, horizontal. In alphabetical order, except for portal which is often removed.

{{Subject bar|b = |commons = |d = |q = |s = |species = |v = |voy = |wikt = |portal = }}

All parameters, vertical. In alphabetical order, except for portal which is often removed.

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"></syntaxhighlight>

Parameters explained

b

Wikibooks page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

commons

WikiMedia Commons page (or Category:) to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

d

Wikidata page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

q

Wikiquote page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

s

Wikisource page (or Author:) to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

species

Wikispecies page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

v

Wikiversity page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

voy

Wikivoyage page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

wikt

Wiktionary page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

Other parameters

portal

Use portal### where ### is any number to link to a portal

auto

set <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|auto=1 to use Wikidata to find sister links

search

override default search string (= title of page)

display

set the display string on the sister links bar

commonscat

link to Commons category instead of gallery

author

link to Species author instead of taxon

Note: positional arguments are interpreted as portals, will be appended after any named portal arguments.

Examples

Example: Simplest case.

auto=1: Try this first to look up sister project links in Wikidata.

Markup

{{Subject bar|auto=1}}

Result (if used on Lemur)

Example page: Lemur

Markup

{{Subject bar|commons= Category:Lemuriformes|species = Lemuriformes|portal1 = Primates|portal2 = Madagascar}}

Result

Example page: Ring-tailed lemur

Markup

{{Subject bar|portal1 = Primates|portal2 = Madagascar|commons = Category:Lemur catta |species = Lemur catta|wikt = Lemur|b = Ring-tailed lemur|q = Ring-tailed lemur|s = Ring-tailed lemur|v = Ring-tailed lemur|voy = Madagascar}}

Result

Portal bar

{{Portal bar}} is a subset of {{Subject bar}}, where only positional arguments are allowed. For example:

Markup

{{Portal bar|COVID-19|Medicine|Viruses}}

Result

See also

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sister projects
• {{Commons}}
• {{Commons category}}
• {{Commons category multi}}
• {{Commons and category}}
• {{Commons-inline}}
• {{Commons category-inline}}
• {{Portal}}
• {{Portal bar}}
• {{Sister project links}}
• {{Sister bar}}
• {{Cross-wiki user}}

TemplateData

TemplateData documentation used by VisualEditor and other tools

See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Subject bar in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Subject bar

<templatedata> { "params": { "portal1": { "required": false, "type": "string/line",

           "aliases": ["1"],

"description": "The first portal, without surrounding text. For example, use \"Science\" to display the science portal." }, "portal2": { "type": "string/line",

           "aliases": ["2"],

"description": "The second portal." }, "portal3": { "type": "string/line",

           "aliases": ["3"],

"description": "The third portal." }, "portal4": { "type": "string/line",

           "aliases": ["4"],

"description": "The fourth portal" }, "portal5": { "type": "string/line",

           "aliases": ["5"],

"description": "The fifth portal." },

       "auto": {
           "label": "Use wikidata to fill sister link defaults",
            "type": "string",
            "required": false,
            "description": "If auto=\"yes\", then sister projects with wikidata sitelinks are filled-in, others are off by default. Each project can be overridden with its own parameter."
       },

"display": { "label": "Display name", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Use if the display name is different from the search term. For example, the bear article would be 'Bears'." },

       "search": {
           "label": "Search string",
           "type": "string",
           "required": false,
           "description": "String to search in sister projects.",
           "default": "Page title"
       },
       "commonscat": {
           "label": "Commons category",
           "type": "string",
           "required": false,
           "description": "Use if link to Commons category is desired instead of gallery."
       },
       "author": {
           "label": "Wikispecies author",
           "type": "string",
           "required": false,
           "description": "Use if link to Wikispecies author is desired instead of taxon."
       },
       "wikt": {

"label": "Wiktionary link", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Wiktionary link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, \"yes\" (find page automatically) and \"no\".",

           "aliases": ["wikt-search"],
           "default": "No"

}, "commons": { "label": "Commons link", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Commons link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, \"yes\" (find page automatically) and \"no\".",

           "aliases": ["c", "c-search", "commons-search"],

"default": "No" }, "q": { "label": "Wikiquote link", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Wikiquote link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, \"yes\" (find page automatically) and \"no\".",

           "aliases": ["q-search"],

"default": "No" }, "s": { "label": "Wikisource link", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Wikisource link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, \"yes\" (find page automatically) and \"no\".",

           "aliases": ["s-search"],

"default": "No" }, "b": { "label": "Wikibooks link", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Wikibooks link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, \"yes\" (find page automatically) and \"no\".",

           "aliases": ["b-search"],

"default": "No" }, "voy": { "label": "Wikivoyage link", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Wikivoyage link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, \"yes\" (find page automatically), and \"no\".",

           "aliases": ["voy-search"],

"default": "No" }, "v": { "label": "Wikiversity link", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Wikiversity link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, \"yes\", (find page automatically) and \"no\".",

           "aliases": ["v-search"],

"default": "No" }, "d": { "label": "Wikidata link", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Wikidata link to show. Acceptable values are a QID, \"yes\" (find page automatically), and \"no\".",

           "aliases": ["d-search"],

"default": "No" }, "species": { "label": "Wikispecies taxon link", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Wikispecies link to show. Acceptable values are a page name, \"yes\" (find page automatically), and \"no\". The default is \"No\".",

           "aliases": ["species-search"],

"default": "No" } }, "description": "This template adds a bar of portals and sister links. It is usually used just above an article's navboxes." } </templatedata>

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