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The contents of one page can be placed onto another page by using a template.[1]
This page and Help:Advanced templates are a reference manual on templates in MediaWiki. See also User:Happy-melon/Templates. For an introduction, see mw:Help:Templates. For syntax often used within templates, see mw:Help:Parser function, Help:Extension:ParserFunctions (on MediaWiki.org) and other "Advanced functioning" help pages listed hereafter.
Notes
- ↑ This process is called transclusion. If a page is specially intended for this purpose, it is called a template. In terms of programming languages, the wikitext of a page can be considered a string expression. In this view a template call is the call of a string function. The template page is the function body. The resulting string may are either be fixed or depend on parameters and/or variables. Other than in many programming languages the declaration of the function does not start with a formal parameter list, it consists of the function body only, which is a string expression for the result. See also compound document.
See also
- mw:Help:Parser function
- mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
- Help:Parameter default
- mw:Help:Magic words
- Help:Substitution
- Help:Template documentation
- Help:Newlines and spaces#Automatic newline
- mw:Help:What links here
- Special:Mostlinkedtemplates - shows the number of pages in which each template is transcluded, not counting transclusions through redirects
- Special:Unusedtemplates - templates which are not transcluded (however, they may be used for substitution)
- interwiki transclusion
- List of all templates on this wiki
- w:Wikipedia:Template namespace
- mw:Help:ExpandTemplates
- mw:Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion - transclusion of part of a page
- w:Wikipedia:Template doc page pattern
- w:Wikipedia:Template_limits
- w:Wikipedia:Anatomy_of_a_template
- w:Wikipedia:Transclusion_costs_and_benefits
- mw:Manual:Parser.php
- mw:Lua
- Template preview feature
See also Meta:List of templates.
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