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This navigational template offers a variant to several floating box templates that link to portals, and Wikipedia's sister projects but also typically cause formatting issues because of their size and alignment.

It is intended to be placed at the end of an article, after the references, external links, navboxes and before any authority control template or categories.

Usage

No single parameter is required, however, at least one portal or sister project should be utilized with the use of this template. Since Wikipedia articles typically are in the domain of one or more WikiProjects, and since WikiProjects often have a portal, almost every article should list at least one portal. None of the parameters should be capitalized.

Parameters

When copying all parameters in either the vertical or horizontal layouts, delete those which are not needed. If no links are needed for a particular type, such as the historical "books", that part of the template will not appear on the page.

Parameter meanings (quick list). Alphabetical order: b: Wikibooks. commons: WikiMedia Commons. d: Wikidata. n: Wikinews. q: Wikiquote. s: Wikisource. species: Wikispecies. v: Wikiversity. voy: Wikivoyage. wikt: Wiktionary.

All parameters, horizontal. Parameters in order they show up in subject bar.

{{Subject bar|commons = y|species = y|voy = y|n = y|wikt = y|b = y|q = y|s = y|v = y|d = y|portal = }}

All parameters, horizontal. In alphabetical order, except for portal which is often removed.

{{Subject bar|b = |commons = |d = |n = |q = |s = |species = |v = |voy = |wikt = |portal = }}

All parameters, vertical. In alphabetical order, except for portal which is often removed.

{{Subject bar
 |b              = 
 |commons        = 
 |d              = 
 |n              = 
 |q              = 
 |s              = 
 |species        = 
 |v              = 
 |voy            = 
 |wikt           =  
 |portal         = 
}}

Parameters explained

b

Wikibooks page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

commons

WikiMedia Commons page (or Category:) to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

d

Wikidata page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

n

Wikinews page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

q

Wikiquote page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

s

Wikisource page (or Author:) to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

species

Wikispecies page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

v

Wikiversity page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

voy

Wikivoyage page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

wikt

Wiktionary page to link to, "yes" means use wikidata to search for page

Other parameters

portal

Use portal### where ### is any number to link to a portal

auto

set |auto=1 to use Wikidata to find sister links

search

override default search string (= title of page)

display

set the display string on the sister links bar

commonscat

link to Commons category instead of gallery

author

link to Species author instead of taxon

Note: positional arguments are interpreted as portals, will be appended after any named portal arguments.

Examples

Example: Simplest case.

auto=1: Try this first to look up sister project links in Wikidata.

Markup

{{Subject bar|auto=1}}

Result (if used on Lemur)

Example page: Lemur

Markup

{{Subject bar|commons= Category:Lemuriformes|species = Lemuriformes|portal1 = Primates|portal2 = Madagascar}}

Result

Example page: Ring-tailed lemur

Markup

{{Subject bar|portal1 = Primates|portal2 = Madagascar|commons = Category:Lemur catta |species = Lemur catta|n = Ring-tailed lemur|wikt = Lemur|b = Ring-tailed lemur|q = Ring-tailed lemur|s = Ring-tailed lemur|v = Ring-tailed lemur|voy = Madagascar}}

Result

Primates

Madagascar

Travel guides from Wikivoyage

Taxa from Wikispecies

Portal bar

{{Portal bar}} is a subset of {{Subject bar}}, where only positional arguments are allowed. For example:

Markup

{{Portal bar|COVID-19|Medicine|Viruses}}

Result

COVID-19

Medicine

Viruses