Template:App

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An "App" element used to format application lists (e.g. List of applications and other such list).

Usage

* {{App|[[Firefox]]|The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web.|http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/|{{Pkg|firefox}}}}
  1. arg. – upstream name of the application, linking to an ArchWiki or Wikipedia article (the former is preferred).
  2. arg. – description that should not duplicate information available in List of applications classifications and/or article context.
  3. arg. – link to upstream website/project page/wiki/other key source of information about the application.
  4. arg. – link to package using Template:Pkg or Template:AUR.
Note: This template is meant to be used at the first level of bulleted lists. It places the first line as a list item, then ends the list and indents the second line. Since the indentation is fixed you should avoid using the template in lists deeper than one level.

Style

name
  • If the name is an acronym it may be expanded: Vim (Vi IMproved)
description
  • Should be a sentence (start with a capital letter and end with a period).
packages
  • Multiple packages should be separated with commas: vim, gvim
  • And may optionally be prefixed with short descriptions: GTK+ 2: gpicview, GTK+ 3: gpicview-gtk3
  • Development/binary versions of packages should not be linked if there is a stable/source version available.

Example

  • Firefox — The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web.
https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ || firefox
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Template:App
wiki.archlinux.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2022-21
23728
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:U4YZ5IEIJ3SXJOXAPLS5S2CANMUJLGJB
<urn:uuid:f26d3cd4-1eb8-4c66-b2cf-7638db8a8466>
2022-05-26T15:16:52Z
135.181.27.174
text/html
sha1:JALEPZGPLIOU5DZGNHLWTPTFATPN7IBD
<urn:uuid:cdf3f73d-3101-4038-bc54-8fe665169b47>
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Template:App
response
<urn:uuid:72b7c31b-93ea-46bc-b940-94ae4adf3029>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-21
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for May 2022
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-252
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.3-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/