[[Template:CC-BY-SA]] missing on [[:Category:Image wiki templates]]

Lachnummer·1/10/2016 in Questions and Answers

CC-BY-SA shows Image wiki templates as one of its categories, because Template:CC-BY-SA/doc contains the wikitext that adds it to that category. So far, so good.

However, Category:Image wiki templates fails to list CC-BY-SA. Why?

(Edited by Lachnummer)

Lachnummer·2/12/2021

I have managed to make Template:CC-BY-SA appear on Category:Image wiki templates, so I mainly got what I wanted. But I had to use a workaround.

Before the workaround, just to clarify: The Category:Image wiki templates page says:

> To put a template in Category:Image wiki templates: Use

<includeonly>[[Category:Image wiki templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]</includeonly>

on the documentation page.

As I already stated in my question, the template *documentation* page (Template:CC-BY-SA/doc) already has that piece of code, but it had no effect. The way I understand MediaWiki, that code should have worked, but did not, which is surprising and why I asked this question.

The workaround: I have added

<noinclude>[[Category:Image wiki templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>

to the template page itself (Template:CC-BY-SA). Note that the workaround uses <noinclude> instead of <includeonly>.

Now Template:CC-BY-SA appears on the category page (Category:Image wiki templates).

(Edited by Lachnummer)

What do you think?