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== viewing all the '''howto'''s ==
Patrick, thank you for correcting the link. I noticed that stupid mistake, but I was away for a while and couldn't correct it. I would like a link to a page where all the pages containing the [[:Template:howto|howto]] template would be shown (just as all the pages from one Category are shown). I thought that after adding the template to the page, the page would already show up in the [[:Category:How to?|How to?]] automatically. Any ideas how to do it?
Hmmm ... now that we have it, perhaps this is just the right place to put (the first) question mark :)
Addendum: The [[Bold small caps]] page showed up on the list when I made a minor edit to it and saved my edits. Apparently the system simply didn't process the changes through until the pages itself was edited, or something like that. (My guess is that adding a category to a template doesn't actually add the linkbacks for the pages containing that template to the category listing, and one has to edit the pages to invoke the code that adds the linkbacks. This is arguably a Wiki bug.) --[[User:Brooks|Brooks]] 01:51, 15 Aug 2005 (CEST)
Let me rephrase that for clarity. I added the template to the [[Title PageDocument Titles]] page, and noticed that this put the "Categories" link at the bottom of the page, and added [[Title PageDocument Titles]] to the list on [[:Category:How to]]. I also noticed that the "Categories" link was properly at the bottom of the [[Bold small caps]] page, but that it didn't show up on the category list page.
Thus, I concluded that the list on the [[:Category:How to]] page is statically generated. This implies that, at some point, a bit of Wiki internal code must be called to put things on the list. I hypothesized that the code to add page X to the list is called when page X is edited, but is NOT called when a template on page X is edited. Corrolary to this hypothesis is that the only reason that [[Bold small caps]] was not appearing on the list was that it had not yet been edited any after the "category" bit was added to the "How to" template, and thus that bit of internal code to add it to the list had not been called. I tested this hypothesis by making a very minor and unrelated edit to the [[Bold small caps]] page, and discovered that this did indeed cause it to be added to the list on [[:Category:How to]].
