සැකිල්ල:Cat handler/blacklist
Actual code of this blacklist:
</noinclude>{{if pagename
<!--Start of blacklist-->
| Wikipedia:Template messages/* = hide <!--Don't categorise on its subpages-->
| /archiv* = hide <!--Don't categorise on /archive pages-->
<!-- Don't categorise on centralized cascade page or its subpages -->
| Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/+ = hide
|Main Page=hide <!-- don't categorize the main page -->
<!--End of blacklist-->
| page = {{{page|}}} <!--Never change this one, see the doc-->
}}<noinclude>
 | This template is used on 1,000,000+ pages. To avoid large-scale disruption and unnecessary server load, any changes to this template should first be tested in its /sandbox or /testcases subpages or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can then be added to this page in one single edit. Please consider discussing any changes on the talk page before implementing them. |
This is the {{cat handler/blacklist}} sub-template.
Do not use this template directly, use {{cat handler}} instead. This template is called from {{cat handler}}, see user documentation there.
But if you came here to see or update the category suppression blacklist, then you are in the right place.
Updating the blacklist[සංස්කරණය]
This template contains a blacklist of the pages and page types where templates should not auto-categorize. This blacklist is used by {{cat handler}} to decide when not to categorize. To update the blacklist, edit this template.
This template uses {{if pagename}} to do the pagename-detection, thus see {{if pagename}} for the syntax to use for the blacklist rules.
When this template is placed on a page that should not categorize, then it should return "hide". And when placed on any other page it should return an empty string.
Testing the blacklist[සංස්කරණය]
There are two ways you can test what this blacklist returns for a page:
You can put this template on the page you want to test, and see what output it produces. You can use edit preview, no need to save. Like this:
+{{cat handler/blacklist}}+
Which here on this page returns this:
- ++
The ++ used here is a simple way to make it visible when a template returns an empty string.
Or you can feed the pagename you want to test to this template. Then you can do all the testing for instance on the [[සැකිල්ල:Pgn/testcases|/testcases]] subpage of this template. Like this:
+{{cat handler/blacklist| page = User:Example }}++{{cat handler/blacklist| page = User:Example/Archive 5}}+
Which returns this:
- ++
- +hide+
Technical details[සංස්කරණය]
Currently this template is only called from {{cat handler}}, and indirectly from all templates that use {{cat handler}}. But in the future this template might also be directly called from other templates similar to {{cat handler}}. This means we can update the category suppression blacklist in one place.
See also[සංස්කරණය]
- Wikipedia:Category suppression – The how-to guide.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Category Suppression – The WikiProject.