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This is the {{Wikipedia port}} template. It is meant to be added to the top of documentation for templates that were ported over from Wikipedia. It automatically fills in the information for the links from the template's page name, although this can be optionally overriden with a parameter.

Usage

{{Wikipedia port}}

Results in:

This template was ported from a template from Wikipedia. It was originally at Template:Wikipedia port/doc. The original authors of this template are shown on the template's edit history page.
This template's documentation was also ported from Wikipedia, originally from Template:Wikipedia port/doc/doc. The original authors of the documentation are shown on the documentation's edit history page.
Wikipedia's text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Note that, when viewed on the documentation page itself, the Wikipedia links link to the /doc subpage instead of the standard page, due to the way the template works. They show up correctly when viewed on the template page.

Parameters

This template accepts up to four optional parameters, one unnamed and three named.

To provide links to a different template, the name of the template can be provided as an unnamed parameter, like so:

{{Wikipedia port|Template:Documentation}}

This template was ported from a template from Wikipedia. It was originally at Template:Documentation. The original authors of this template are shown on the template's edit history page.
This template's documentation was also ported from Wikipedia, originally from Template:Documentation/doc. The original authors of the documentation are shown on the documentation's edit history page.
Wikipedia's text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

To specify if the template was modified, provide the modified parameter:

{{Wikipedia port|Template:Documentation|modified=1}}

This template was ported from a template from Wikipedia, then modified. It was originally at Template:Documentation. The original authors of this template are shown on the template's edit history page.
This template's documentation was also ported from Wikipedia, originally from Template:Documentation/doc. The original authors of the documentation are shown on the documentation's edit history page.
Wikipedia's text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

To specify if the template was ported from an old revision, provide the old parameter with the ID of the revision as provided in the revision's URL.

{{Wikipedia port|Template:Documentation|old=577591885}}

This template was ported from an old revision of a template from Wikipedia. It was originally at Template:Documentation. The original authors of this template are shown on the template's edit history page.
This template's documentation was also ported from Wikipedia, originally from Template:Documentation/doc. The original authors of the documentation are shown on the documentation's edit history page.
Wikipedia's text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

To specify if the template's documentation was also ported from Wikipedia, provide the documentation parameter:

{{Wikipedia port|Template:Documentation|documentation=1}}

This template was ported from a template from Wikipedia. It was originally at Template:Documentation. The original authors of this template are shown on the template's edit history page.
This template's documentation was also ported from Wikipedia, originally from Template:Documentation/doc. The original authors of the documentation are shown on the documentation's edit history page.
Wikipedia's text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.