Manual:Pywikipediabot/templatecount.py

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templatecount.py

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As the name implies templatecount.py counts the number of times a template has been transcluded on your wiki.

Syntax

Basic syntax is:

python templatecount.py option templatename1 templatename2 templatename3 ... templatenameX

where option can be

-count        Counts the number of times each template (passed in as an
              argument) is transcluded.

-list         Gives the list of all of the pages transcluding the templates
              (rather than just counting them).

-namespace:   Filters the search to a given namespace.  If this is specified
              multiple times it will search all given namespaces

Usage

Imagine you wanted to find out how often the templates {{reflist}}, {{quote}} and {{tl}} were used on your wiki, across all namespaces.. You didn't care about where they were used, just howw many times. You'd then type:

python templatecount.py -count reflist quote tl