Template:PAGESINCATEGORY/doc
 | This is a documentation subpage for Template:PAGESINCATEGORY. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
 | Please use {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Category}}, rather than {{PAGESINCATEGORY|Category}}. This uses the magic word directly instead of using the template to call the magic word. |
Usage
[edit]{{PAGESINCATEGORY|Featured articles}}gives 6,614{{PAGESINCATEGORY|Featured articles|R}}gives 6614 (no commas)
{{PAGESINCATEGORY|Wikipedia files requiring renaming|all}}gives 4 — all pages{{PAGESINCATEGORY|Wikipedia files requiring renaming|pages}}gives 0 — ordinary pages (excluding subcategories and files){{PAGESINCATEGORY|Wikipedia files requiring renaming|subcats}}gives 4 — subcategories{{PAGESINCATEGORY|Wikipedia files requiring renaming|files}}gives 0 — files
This behaviour is the same as (and uses) the WP:Magic word "PAGESINCATEGORY". The only exception is that if no parameter is used, the current pagename is used as the parameter.