Project:Deliberately unused templates
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This page includes templates that we want to keep but which we do not actually want to include in any pages. Including them on this page helps to document why they are unused, and stops them appearing on Special:UnusedTemplates.
Subst templates Edit
The following templates are designed to be included using {{subst: ... }}, so any inclusion will not create a link back to the template. We don't want these showing up in the list, or being deleted.
- {{Add-desc-E}}
- {{Add-desc-I}}
- {{Barnstar ExtensionsDev/Congrats}}
- {{Barnstar ExtensionsDev/First}}
- {{Barnstar ExtensionsDev/Thanks}}
- {{Barnstar SysAdmins/Congrats}}
- {{Barnstar SysAdmins/Launch}}
- {{Barnstar SysAdmins/Thanks}}
- {{CSD notice}}
- {{Deleted userpage}}
- {{Hackathon}}
- {{InitDoc}}
- {{InitCategory}}
- {{Norecreate}}
- {{Selfsubst}} - See Special:Search/insource:selfsubst
- {{Selfsubst/now string}}
- {{Selfsubst/ language/js}}
- {{Uw-delete1}}
- {{Uw-editsummary}}
- {{Welcome-anon}}
User interface templates Edit
The following templates are used either by the MediaWiki interface or to provide some extra UI functionality, but are not directly included on any page.
- {{Abusefilter-blocked-display}} - Abuse filter notice appears when a user blocked from the wiki for doing bad things.
- {{Anonblock}} - Used as the edit summary for some blocks.
- {{Anontalkpagetext}} - Anonymous' user talk page notice.
- {{Anontools}} - Used to look at the anonymous' contributions, like IP location, IP range, etc.
- {{Brokenredirectstext}} - It is used to look at the Special:BrokenRedirects.
- {{Core Platform 10 Percent Project}} - Used as the preload for the "create new project" box on Core Platform Team/Development Practices/10% time.
- {{Documentation/mirror}}
- {{Documentation/preload}}
- {{Documentation/preload-module-doc}}
- {{Documentation/preload-module-sandbox}}
- {{Documentation/preload-module-testcases}}
- {{Documentation/preload-testcases}}
- {{Editinginterface}} - Used to MediaWiki: namespaces when a user is trying to edit the MediaWiki interface or viewing.
- {{Extension/Sample}} - Used by the input-box extension as the default text when creating new extension pages.
- {{Newarticletext}} - Used when a user is about to create a non-existed page.
- {{Protectedinterface}} - Used when a page is protected while a regular user is not administrator or bureaucrat.
- {{Proxy}} - Used as the edit summary for some blocks.
- {{Recentchangestext}} - Used in Special:RecentChanges.
- {{RfC template}}
- {{Rightslogtext}} - Used in Special:Log/rights.
- {{Skin/Sample}}
- {{Sp-contributions-footer}} - Used for user's contribution page tools.
- {{Sp-contributions-footer-anon}} - Used for anonymous' contribution page tools.
- {{Unusedtemplatestext}} - Used in Special:UnusedTemplates.
Translated admin templates Edit
The following templates are translations of English-language admin templates, which should never be included on actual pages (the English version should always be used). No decision has yet been made about whether it is useful to keep these translations, so they may all be deleted in the future, but in the mean-time they are included here to stop them showing up in the list.
- {{Obsolete/de}}
- {{Outdated/de}}
- {{Outdated/fr}}
- {{Outdated/nl}}
- {{Outdated/ru}}
- {{Speedy/de}}
- {{Speedy/es}}
- {{Speedy/fr}}
- {{Speedy/it}}
- {{Speedy/ru}}
Temporarily unused Edit
Templates that are sometimes unused, to stop them being accidentally deleted when this is the case.
- {{Main page/site news}} - Used when we need to display site news on the main page, unused when we don't.
- {{Unmaintained extension}} - Used to tag unmaintained and/or abandoned extensions, but it may be that there are none.
- {{Deprecated}} - Used to mark deprecated features. If these are removed the template will also be removed, potentially leaving it unused.
- {{Undocumented configuration setting}} - Sometimes there are no undocumented configuration settings
- {{Undocumented MediaWiki Hook}} - Sometimes there are no undocumented MediaWiki hooks
- {{Undocumented Extension Hook}} - Sometimes there are no undocumented extension hooks
- {{Badtrans}}
- {{Delete}} - Deletion template
- {{Speedy}} - Speedy-deletion template
- {{VisualEditor:Test/Text}}
- {{Error}}
- {{Error:must be substituted}}
Miscellaneous Edit
- {{Test TD}}
Module:Universal infocard - Multi-site page, see Multilingual Templates and Modules