Template:User/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:User.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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This template is used on approximately 650,000 pages, or roughly 1% of all pages.
To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Sandbox

Template:User/sandbox can be used for testing. Additional edit history for this template is contained there.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:User in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for User

This template is used to create a link to a user's user page (unless using {{Useranon}}), talk page, and contributions, and generates a special notification (aka 'ping').

Template parameters
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
User name	`1` `user`	The user name that you want to create links to and notify.	User	required
Sister project	`project`	Used to link to a sister project instead of the English Wikipedia. Use the standard interwiki prefix. Suggested values `wiktionary` `wikinews` `wikibooks` `wikiquote` `wikisource` `wikispecies` `wikiversity` `wikivoyage` `foundation` `commons` `meta` `mediawikiwiki` `wikidata`	String	optional
Other language project	`lang`	Used to link to another language project. If used with the "sister project" parameter, links to another language of a sister project. Otherwise links to another language Wikipedia. Use the standard language code.	String	optional
Separator	`separator`	Used to change the separator between the links. If unused, defaults to a dot.	Unknown	optional