Template:Tlw/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Tlw.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.
To view the template page itself, see Template:Tlw.

Similar templates at English sister projects [edit]
25x25px	mta	Meta-wiki	Tlw/doc
25x25px	wpd	Wikipedia	Tlw/doc
25x25px	cms	Commons	Tlw/doc
25x25px	wbk	Wikibooks	Tlw/doc
25x25px	wsp	Wikispecies	Tlw/doc
25x25px	wvy	Wikiversity	Tlw/doc

This Template is an interwiki version of 'template list' ({{tl}} 

... which reaches across sister projects and makes a link into the template space on the English Wikipedia. Hence the name, 'Tlw' is an mnemonic initialism for 'Template list (on) Wikipedia'.

Related

• W:template:template list -- which takes the parameter '|SISTER=' to designate non-local template space, and allows list of links examination of up to forty templates locally (default) or across the interwiki divide.
• Tlx, which provides not only a better presentation than {{tl}}, but the same SISTER= parameter capability. Giving rise to the front end templates:

Tlxc, Tlxm, and Tlxw which with a one letter change link to a template on the Commons, Meta, and Wikipedia respectively.