Help:Templates

Template:PD Help Page If you have standard texts you want to include on several pages, the MediaWiki template feature comes into play.

Creating a template

Templates must be prefixed with Template, you create them like any other wiki page.

Using a template

Templates are wiki pages which can be used in other pages in three ways:

{{Name}} includes the current content of the page "Template:Name".

{{subst:Name}} inserts the content of the page "Template:Name" when you save your text.

{{msgnw:Name}} includes the template in raw wiki syntax, like <nowiki> does

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Control template inclusion

You can control template inclusion by the use of <noinclude> and <includeonly> tags.

Anything between <noinclude> and </noinclude> will be processed and displayed only when the page is being viewed directly, not included.

Possible applications are:

• Categorising templates
• Interlanguage links to similar templates in other languages
• Explanatory text about how to use the template

The converse is <includeonly>. Text between <includeonly> and </includeonly> will be processed and displayed only when the page is being included. The obvious application is to add all pages containing a given template to a category.

Note that the usual update problems apply -- if you change the categories inside a template, the categories of the referring pages won't be updated until those pages are edited.

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