User talk:Willscrlt/UBX/categories
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[edit] Wikipedia:Userboxes/Health
Could someone help me do this parser function thing here to take this page out of Wikipedian space? I can't figure it out. Do you have to signify that you want no userboxes like {{Userbox|categories=no}}? -PatPeter 04:16, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hi PatPeter
What the category suppression "parser function thing" does is shut off the list of categories that appear at the bottom of that page:
Categories: Wikipedians with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder | Aspergian Wikipedians | Wikipedians with bipolar disorder | Wikipedians with borderline personality disorder | Wikipedians with Cataplexy | Depressive Wikipedians | Dysthymic Wikipedians | Dyslexic Wikipedians | Wikipedians with general anxiety disorder | Wikipedians with multiple personality disorder | Wikipedians with Narcolepsy | Wikipedians with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Wikipedians with social anxiety | Wikipedians with PDD-NOS | Wikipedians with post-traumatic stress disorder | Synaesthetic Wikipedians | Wikipedians with Tourette syndrome | Wikipedians with carpal tunnel syndrome | Wikipedians with pectus excavatum | Wikipedians in wheelchairs | Deaf Wikipedians | Deaf Culture Wikipedians | Hyperopic Wikipedians | Wikipedians with Astigmatism | Color blind Wikipedians | Wikipedians interested in drugs | Left-handed Wikipedians | Mixed-handed Wikipedians | Wikipedians with IBS | Wikipedians with breast cancer | Wikipedians who survived cancer | Wikipedians interested in herbalism | Wikipedians who support the Jade Ribbon Campaign | Wikipedia userboxes
The only category that makes sense for that particular page is the Wikipedia userboxes category. The page is a list of userboxes. The page itself is not a Wikipedian; therefore, it doesn't really make sense being in the Aspergian Wikipedians category. Right?
The first thing I would suggest doing is editing the page and adding |categories=no as the last attribute in each userbox template:
{{User:Example/Ubx/SampleBox|categories=no}}
Next, check the list of categories at the bottom of the page to see which userboxes generate a category automatically. Edit each box, one-by-one, inserting the category suppression parser function as shown in the example. It's pretty much just a copy and paste process.
After saving the updated userbox, when you return to the Wikipedia:Userboxes/Health page, the category that userbox used to add should no longer appear. If it is still there, refresh your browser cache and reload the page. If it's still there, either the |categories=no is wrong (wrong place, typo, etc.) on the Health page, or the parser function isn't set up correctly in the userbox.
That's the "purpose of" and "how-to-use" this feature.
You asked how to take a "page out of Wikipedia space". If your intention is to actually have the page appear in some other namespace, then you would just move the page using the link at the top of the page. When it asks you where you want to move the page, just put in the new namespace, a colon, and then the page name (which can be the same or different). I suppose that "taking a page out of Wikipedia space" could also include the task of exporting a page from Wikipedia and importing it into a different Wiki. That can be done using the Special:Export pages page, and then, if you have administrative rights on the other wiki, the Special:Import pages page there. I doubt that's what you meant, though.
If you have any other questions about how to use the parser functions, please let me know. :-)
