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*Templates can act like a "rubber-stamp" and like a "cookie-cutter". | *Templates can act like a "rubber-stamp" and like a "cookie-cutter". | ||
*Wiki-page editors may create a template that contains commonly-used boiler-plate text, and use it repeatedly, like a "rubber-stamp", in many different Wiki-articles. | *Wiki-page editors may create a template that contains commonly-used boiler-plate text, and use it repeatedly, like a "rubber-stamp", in many different Wiki-articles. | ||
| − | *Wiki-page editors may use | + | *Wiki-page editors may use parameters in templates, to create custom individualized results, but with a common behavior regardless of which article invokes the template, similar to how a "cookie-cutter" gives the same shape to cookies that might have slightly different ingredients. |
*When a template that includes web-links, or Wiki-links, is updated to reflect link-updates, all articles that rely on the template are also automatically updated, thus saving considerable time and effort during Wiki-maintenance, and significantly increasing accuracy and correctness throughout the Wiki. | *When a template that includes web-links, or Wiki-links, is updated to reflect link-updates, all articles that rely on the template are also automatically updated, thus saving considerable time and effort during Wiki-maintenance, and significantly increasing accuracy and correctness throughout the Wiki. | ||
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| + | ==Template Variables or Parameters== | ||
| + | *Templates can make use of three types of parameters -- anonymous, numbered, and named. All three methods are utilized in the RadioReference Wiki. | ||
| + | **For more information about these parameter-types, please visit this external link: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates#Parameters MediaWiki.org:Help:Templates#Parameters] | ||
| + | *Templates can also make use of system-variables to display system-values. | ||
| + | **The available system-variables are listed on this Wiki page: [[Quick guide to editing pages#Variables]]. | ||
==Template Documentation== | ==Template Documentation== | ||
*Templates are documented either in the template itself (when the template is short and simple), or in a "/doc" sub-page. The "/doc" sub-page link will be found at the bottom of the template, and will be the template's name with "/doc" appended to it (without quotes). Example: [[:Template:Cat_State]]'s documentation is located at: [[:Template:Cat_State/doc]] | *Templates are documented either in the template itself (when the template is short and simple), or in a "/doc" sub-page. The "/doc" sub-page link will be found at the bottom of the template, and will be the template's name with "/doc" appended to it (without quotes). Example: [[:Template:Cat_State]]'s documentation is located at: [[:Template:Cat_State/doc]] | ||
| + | *For recommendations about how to document a template, please navigate to: [[Templates-List: Documentation]]. | ||
==Templates List== | ==Templates List== | ||
Revision as of 22:32, 11 September 2015
| Pages: Templates-List: General Use Only, Infobox-Related, Categories-Related, Sets of Related Pages, Doc. |
Contents
Templates
How templates can be useful
- Templates can act like a "rubber-stamp" and like a "cookie-cutter".
- Wiki-page editors may create a template that contains commonly-used boiler-plate text, and use it repeatedly, like a "rubber-stamp", in many different Wiki-articles.
- Wiki-page editors may use parameters in templates, to create custom individualized results, but with a common behavior regardless of which article invokes the template, similar to how a "cookie-cutter" gives the same shape to cookies that might have slightly different ingredients.
- When a template that includes web-links, or Wiki-links, is updated to reflect link-updates, all articles that rely on the template are also automatically updated, thus saving considerable time and effort during Wiki-maintenance, and significantly increasing accuracy and correctness throughout the Wiki.
Template Variables or Parameters
- Templates can make use of three types of parameters -- anonymous, numbered, and named. All three methods are utilized in the RadioReference Wiki.
- For more information about these parameter-types, please visit this external link: MediaWiki.org:Help:Templates#Parameters
- Templates can also make use of system-variables to display system-values.
- The available system-variables are listed on this Wiki page: Quick guide to editing pages#Variables.
Template Documentation
- Templates are documented either in the template itself (when the template is short and simple), or in a "/doc" sub-page. The "/doc" sub-page link will be found at the bottom of the template, and will be the template's name with "/doc" appended to it (without quotes). Example: Template:Cat_State's documentation is located at: Template:Cat_State/doc
- For recommendations about how to document a template, please navigate to: Templates-List: Documentation.
Templates List
- Template-names have been chosen with the purpose of them sorting alphabetically in such a way that templates with similar purposes will naturally sort together in the list.
- The grouping-by-purpose is reflected in the template-lists on the following pages:
| Pages: Templates-List: General Use Only, Infobox-Related, Categories-Related, Sets of Related Pages, Doc. |