This is a documentation subpage for Template:Get short description. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Using this template may have unintended side effects, such as adding irrelevant categories from the target page.

Usage

This template attempts to get the short description of a page. It will only match the first short description on a page, whether displayed or not.
Use {{ Get short description|page=page|nomatch=nomatch}}
e.g. The short description of [[Russia]] is "{{Get short description |Russia}}". → The short description of Russia is "Country spanning Europe and Asia".