Template:User other

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This is the {{user other }} meta-template.

This template helps other templates detect whether they are on a "User:" page or some "other" type of page.

Usage

This template usually takes two parameters, like this:

{{user other|User-page text|Other-pages text}}

If the template is on a "User:" page, it will return this:

User-page text

If the template is on any other type of page, it will return this:

Other-pages text

Using this meta-template can make a template that adds a category when it is invoked on User pages, but not when it is invoked on non-User pages. Like this:

{{user other|[[Category:Some user category]]}}

This meta-template can warn that a template should not be used on non-User pages:

{{user other||This template should only be used on user pages.}}

In the first case above, the "other" parameter was not used. In the second example, the "user" parameter was left empty.

Demospace

For testing and demonstration purposes, this template can take a named parameter, demospace.

If demospace has the value user, it returns the user-page text.
It demospace has the value other, or any other value such as the name of some other namespace it returns the other-pages text.
If demospace is empty or undefined, the actual page type determines the result.

Like this:

{{user other
| User-page text
| Other-pages text
| demospace=user
}}

No matter on what type of page the code above is used, it will return this:

User-page text

You can make it so your template also understands the demospace parameter. That means you can demonstrate the different appearances of your template in the documentation for your template. Then do like this:

{{user other
| User-page text
| Other-pages text
| demospace={{{demospace|}}}
}}

Technical details

This template detects "User talk:" pages as type other.

This template works like {{main talk other }}. For more examples and technical details, see full documentation there.

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Namespace and pagename-detecting templates

Namespace

Particular	Main other Talk other Category other Draft other File other Is Commons Help other Module other Portal other Template other User other Project other Single namespace If talkspace of
More generic	Namespace detect Namespace detect showall Main talk other Main talk other flex Talkspace detect

Pagename

When on basepage	Detects and acts according to whether it is on a basepage or on any subpage (that is, a `../..` subpage).
When pagename is	For pattern matching on the pagename.
Module:Page	Can take apart and put together pagenames in several ways.
IP-talk	Returns IP-user talkpage, registered-user talkpage or non-user talkpage.
IP-user other	For detecting IP-user pages.
Subpage other	Pagename has an after-slash part (not in mainspace)
Sandbox other	Page is subpage /sandbox (template space)
Testcases other	Page is subpage /testcases (template space)
Rootpage other	Page is rootpage (vs. /subpage) (template space)

Others

Stub other	Detects whether it is on a page with a stub template or not.
Redirect other	Detects whether it is on a redirect or not.
If preview	Detects whether page is viewed as a preview or not.
If IP	Displays different content to IP users and logged-in users.
If autoconfirmed	Displays different content to autoconfirmed and non-autoconfirmed users.
If extended confirmed	Displays different content to extended confirmed and non-extended confirmed users.
If administrator	Displays content only to admins.
If mobile	Displays different content to mobile users and desktop users.
If dark	Displays different content to dark mode users and light mode users.
Noscript	Detects whether page is viewed with a JavaScript-capable client or not.

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:User other/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

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