Template:Infobox Website/doc

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

1 Usage
2 Parameters
3 Example
4 See also

[edit] Usage

{{Infobox Website
|name           = 
|logo           = 
|screenshot     = 
|caption        = 
|url            = 
|commercial     = 
|type           = 
|language       = 
|registration   = 
|owner          = 
|author         = 
|launch date    = 
|current status = 
|revenue        = 
|slogan         =
}}

[edit] Parameters

Note: Do not link to an article more than once in the infobox. All parameters are optional except url, type, owner, and author. See also WP:WEB.

Parameter	Explanation
`name`	The websites most recognised name.
`logo`	The website logo.
`screenshot`	A screenshot of the entire homepage, see Example 1/Example 2.
`caption`	Caption saying screenshot of <website> name as of <date>
`url`	The most used URL of the website, use Alexa to find the most used URL, e.g. http://www.wikipedia.org/ (required)
`type`	The type of website, search for similar sites for an idea. (required)
`language`	The language(s) the website is available in
`registration`	Is there registration, none/optional/required?
`owner`	The current owner, company name/persons name/alias etc (required)
`author`	The person or entity that originally created the website (required)
`launch date`	When the website was launched, consider using the WHOIS data as a last resort if you are unable to determine the launch date.
`current status`	Is the site online/offline/sold etc
`revenue`	The approximate revenue of the site.
`slogan`	The slogan of the website, e.g. "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit."

[edit] Example

Wikipedia


URL	http://www.wikipedia.org/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Registration	Optional
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger

{{Infobox Website
|name         = Wikipedia
|logo         = [[Image:Wikipedia-logo.png|48px|Wikipedia logo.]]
|screenshot   = [[Image:Www.wikipedia.org screenshot.png|280px|Detail of Wikipedia's multilingual portal. Here, the project's largest language editions are shown.]]
|url          = http://www.wikipedia.org/
|commercial   = No
|location     = [[Miami, Florida]]
|type         = [[Internet encyclopedia project]]
|registration = Optional
|owner        = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
|author       = [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]]
}}