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Template:Commons category

Also known as Template:Commons cat, Template:Cc, Template:Commonscat

wiki template common for all projects showing a link to a category in "Commons" in a box on the right side of the screen (some implementations even left)

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It is catalogued under topics including Interwiki category linking templates, Interwiki link sidebar templates and Templates that add a tracking category.

Vinony links it to 257 Wikipedia language editions.

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template has topic: Category:Wikimedia Commons
different from: Template:Commons

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{{Commons category}} links to a "Category:" name in the Wikimedia Commons repository that corresponds to the article or category. If the Commons category name is misspelled or missing, the link will still appear "blue" even though the link will fail. Check the existence of the category on Commons as well as the spelling of names carefully. That said, Pi bot will attempt to fix or remove links to non-existent categories. In articles, this template should be placed at the top of the last section on the page so that it floats to the right of that section. A warning will appear if the Commons link is not on Wikidata.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Template:Commons category” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.