List of templates

From VideoLAN Wiki

Contents 1 Formatting 2 Interwiki links 3 Links to VLC project 4 Maintenance 5 Page type banners 6 Yes and no 7 Modules 8 Other

Formatting

Name	Description
{{Clear}}	If there are elements (eg wikipedia box) to the left or right of the page, this will place text under those, rather than beside it.
{{Lowercase}}	If the initial letter of article title should be lowercase (e.g. libdvbpsi) add this to the top of the article.

Interwiki links

Name	Description
{{Mmwiki}}	Box to Multimedia Wiki
{{Website}}	Box to official website
{{Wikipedia}}	Box to Wikipedia:
{{Xiph}}	Box to Xiph Wiki
{{Open}}	Marks free open source projects

Links to VLC project

Name	Description
{{Doc}}	Link to documentation
{{Faqlink}}	Link to FAQs
{{Forum}}	Link to forum thread
{{File}}	Link to source code

Maintenance

Name	Description
{{Delete}}	Places a page in Category:Delete for deletion.
{{Stub}}	Is a stub. Adds to Category:Stubs
{{Check}}	Adds [Please check] and adds to Category:Pages to check

Page type banners

Name	Description
{{Documentation}}	Marks as being from the official documentation
{{Howto}}	Marks as part of the how to pages
{{Mux}}	Marks as a container.
{{Codec audio}}	Marks as an audio codec.
{{Codec video}}	Marks as a video codec.
{{Protocol}}	Marks as an access module (http, cdda, etc).
{{Top box}}	A box with a square and a bit for text, used for {{mux}}, etc.
{{example code}}	Page is example code

Yes and no

Test status

Name	Description
{{Yes}}	Yes
{{No}}	No
{{Ok}}	Ok / Upgradable
{{Partial}}	Partial
{{Middle}}	Middle
{{Untested}}	untested ???
{{Up-to-date}}	Up-to-date

Needed

Name	Description
{{Needed}}	X
{{UnNeeded}}	-

Modules

Name	Description
{{Module}}	Module info box
{{Option}}	Module option

Other

Name	Description
{{Compat}}	Asks for compatability information, eg for hardware.
{{Tl}}	For templates, does the groovy {{tl}} thing.
{{Unsupported}}	Not compatible box
{{VLC}}	Expands to VLC media player.
{{VLC:latest version}}	Expands to VLC latest version. Currently 0.9.5
{{%}}	Expands to % for use at the start of console stuff
{{BasedOnRev}}	Link to a diff of a file between a given revision and SVN HEAD.
{{GPL}}	GPL notice ("Permission is granted to...")
{{CVE}}	Link to a CVE.
{{US-CERT}}	Link to a US-CERT Vulnerability Notice.
{{VideoLAN-SA}}	Link to a VideoLAN Security Advisory.