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What are Templates?

• Templates are used on wikis to add content and codes to pages, by simpling adding a {{Template}}, which will display the template's content as part of the wiki-page when viewed, while only actually being a short template-tag when you are editing the page.
• This frees the page of repetitive information or complex codes cluttering when you are editing a page.
• This also makes it easier to update information that is repeated on multiple pages, by simply updating the template containing the information.

How do I edit the Templates?

To easily find and edit the active templates within a page:

1. Press the "edit" button at the top of the page
2. Scroll down to the bottom, below the text-editing area, there you will see a list of templates currently in use on the page, and a easy "edit" button next to each link.
   • When you press the "edit" link next to the template name, you will be taken to the content of that template.
   • You will often see <onlyinclude>, <includeonly> and <noinclude> tags at the top of those template pages, DO NOT MESS WITH THOSE TAGS
3. Remember: always use "Show preview" before you save ANY page, to see if it looks correct.
   • You can always press the "History" and undo recent changes in case of accidents.

What are those tags anyway? <onlyinclude> <includeonly> <noinclude>

• They control if content which is placed between them is displayed when the templates are used on pages.

Using Templates

Documentation The above documentation is transcluded from Help:Templates/doc. Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox Please add categories to the /doc subpage within <includeonly>...</includeonly> Using templates (with {{yes}} template as example) Description Code Results Plain use of template, fills the cell with color and "yes" {{yes}} Yes Adding text to template, in this case it will replace the default text. {{yes|usually}} usually If you would use this template outside of its designated usage (which is within table cells), it turns out looking like this: style="background:#9F9;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"|Yes