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  • 10:00, 22 November 2006 contribs)| m (rm whitespace)
  • 15:27, 24 October 2006 User:66.82.9.45 (→Example: named parameter substitution)
  • 09:51, 30 September 2006 contribs)| (colon function -> parser function)
  • 18:06, 20 September 2006 User:134.84.5.57 (→Restrictions on parameter values - NCR)
  • 23:31, 18 September 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 63.169.86.211 to last version by 131.136.242.1)
  • 14:59, 15 September 2006 User:131.136.242.1 (→Restrictions on parameter values - pipe as html entity)
  • 16:53, 2 September 2006 contribs)| m (Replace {{Ut}} (redirected to {{Tcw}} with {{Tcw}})
  • 01:23, 28 August 2006 contribs)| (→Example: named parameter substitution)
  • 01:23, 28 August 2006 contribs)| m (→Example: named parameter substitution)
  • 01:22, 28 August 2006 contribs)| m (→Example: named parameter substitution)
  • 01:22, 28 August 2006 contribs)| (→Example: named parameter substitution)
  • 01:20, 28 August 2006 contribs)| (fixed explanation from technobabble to regular english that idiots like me can understand)
  • 01:11, 28 August 2006 contribs)| (→Example: named parameter substitution)
  • 18:49, 25 August 2006 contribs)| m (rv off-topic addition)
  • 09:50, 24 August 2006 contribs)| (→The simplest case)
  • 09:45, 24 August 2006 contribs)| (→The simplest case)
  • 09:39, 24 August 2006 contribs)| (→The simplest case - Thus, unlike in the case of parser functions, there are no complications,)
  • 09:35, 24 August 2006 contribs)| (→The simplest case - Compare conditional whitespace.)
  • 09:32, 24 August 2006 contribs)| (→The simplest case - put example without indentation to avoid complications)
  • 11:34, 13 August 2006 contribs)| (→General - Templatelinks table)
  • 11:16, 13 August 2006 contribs)| (Only with the first of the two alternatives "What links here" also finds the pages that actually embed template B. In the second alternative the page is anyway considered embedded. If we replace "b" b)
  • 11:09, 13 August 2006 contribs)| (→General - :<nowiki>{{{{#if:..|a|echo}}|1=pa1|echo={{{{#if:1|b}}|pb1}}}}</nowiki>)
  • 10:55, 13 August 2006 contribs)| (→General - :<nowiki>{{{{#if:..|a|echo}}|1=pa1|echo={{b|pb1}}}}</nowiki>)
  • 10:44, 13 August 2006 contribs)| (→General - Thus, to use "What links here" to find the pages that actually embed template A, instead of using e.g.)
  • 08:25, 13 August 2006 contribs)| (→Repetition within a page - rm dup, correct)
  • 08:12, 13 August 2006 contribs)| (→Repetition within a page - update)
  • 11:22, 12 August 2006 contribs)| (→General - *if the name of an embedded page is time-dependent, e.g. <nowiki>{{abc{{CURRENTDAY}}}}</nowiki>, currently giving {{abc{{CURRENTDAY}}}}, the current template name is shown)
  • 11:09, 12 August 2006 contribs)| (→General - #ifexpr)
  • 11:08, 12 August 2006 contribs)| (→General - *if a page is conditionally embedded through #if, #ifeq, #ifexist, or #switch, it is counted as embedded, even if the condition is not fulfilled)
  • 11:05, 12 August 2006 contribs)| (→General - *a conditionally embedded page is counted as embedded, even if the condition is not fulfilled)
  • 14:34, 31 July 2006 contribs)| (→Template mechanism - if = is used)
  • 02:39, 19 July 2006 contribs)| (→Use of templates across projects - use plainlinks because wikia interwiki is wrong)
  • 22:00, 9 July 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 208.180.124.17 to last version by Naconkantari)
  • 21:58, 9 July 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 208.180.124.17 to last version by Slbain)
  • 20:06, 30 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Predefined templates - added "you" to 4th bullet)
  • 11:28, 27 June 2006 contribs)| (→msgnw - rendering the template page itself)
  • 08:54, 27 June 2006 User:194.201.128.210 (→Example: named parameter substitution - update syntax)
  • 09:18, 25 June 2006 contribs)| (→Composite pages - *[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2005_English_cricket_season_%281-14_June%29&diff=27917447&oldid=27330886] - rejection of composite page by w:en)
  • 08:50, 25 June 2006 User:82.92.245.109 (Somebody put in a {{pi}} template (a few 1000 digits on Wikipedia))
  • 17:52, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly - restore bit about tildes)
  • 10:35, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (→Template page if no defaults have been specified)
  • 10:10, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (→Template page if no defaults have been specified)
  • 10:03, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (→Template page if no defaults have been specified - Therefore it can be useful to provide representative default values, even if that is only done temporarily during development of the template.)
  • 09:58, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (→Template page if no defaults have been specified - either way)
  • 09:57, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (In such cases includeonly can be used to avoid uninformative and messy rendering, but either a disadvantage during template development is that preview does not reflect changes in the parts of the pag)
  • 09:49, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (→General - Depending on context "including" can be used as opposed to ''substituting'' the template.)
  • 08:26, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (→Template page if no defaults have been specified)
  • 08:21, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (→Template page if no defaults have been specified - With noinclude and includeonly a neat, informative template page can be produced.)
  • 08:17, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (→Template page if no defaults have been specified - update)
  • 08:09, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (→Template page - except for page-dependent variables)
  • 08:07, 23 June 2006 contribs)| (→Template page - Without noinclude and includeonly parts the following are identical:)
  • 04:18, 21 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Predefined templates - trying to fix red link in Wikipedia version)
  • 17:04, 14 June 2006 contribs)| m (→The simplest case)
  • 16:52, 14 June 2006 contribs)| (→Declaring a default value - added mixes of named / unnamed)
  • 16:36, 14 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Example: numeric parameter substitution; use of a default - trim overlong secxtion title)
  • 11:42, 14 June 2006 contribs)| (A way to determine whether a parameter is defined is by comparing the results of two occurrences with different defaults, e.g. with <tt><nowiki>{{#ifeq: {{{a|+}}}|{{{a|-}}}|1|0}}</nowiki></tt>.)
  • 22:24, 11 June 2006 contribs)| (Mention substituion in intro. It barely makes it longer.)
  • 22:08, 11 June 2006 contribs)| (Compare to Wiktionary:en:macro)
  • 23:11, 7 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Usage - use current name (less confusing))
  • 05:49, 5 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Remarks - better (?) title)
  • 05:47, 5 June 2006 contribs)| (→Interwiki links - Too hopeless for repair, better covered elsewhere)
  • 05:42, 5 June 2006 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly - Inline example wasn't convincing, replaced by prose)
  • 05:23, 5 June 2006 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly - Incomplete)
  • 04:08, 5 June 2006 contribs)| (→Indentation or list code at the beginning of template content - trim excessively annoying section title, remove long list of examples, the goal is a portable help page with no nonsense about it)
  • 12:30, 1 June 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 199.77.130.14 to last version by Patrick)
  • 10:05, 31 May 2006 contribs)| (In the case of page substitution with an undefined parameter, not the default but the parameter itself with default is substituted into the wikitext.)
  • 09:02, 31 May 2006 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly - it will not be included or substituted.)
  • 15:23, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (*DynamicFunctions##arg: - instead of including a page for given parameter values, this allows linking to a page for given parameter values.)
  • 14:32, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly)
  • 14:25, 22 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Noinclude and includeonly)
  • 14:22, 22 May 2006 contribs)| m (→External links)
  • 14:19, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly)
  • 14:12, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly)
  • 13:46, 22 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Noinclude and includeonly)
  • 13:44, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly)
  • 13:39, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly)
  • 13:34, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly)
  • 13:30, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (providing examples here on (say) page B has an additional advantage: it assures that, if some pages link to C due to the inclusion of B, page B is in the list of backlinks of C. See also [[Help:What l)
  • 11:56, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→General - update: rm "*only those in the template namespace are given, ''not'' pages in other namespaces, transcluded in the page")
  • 11:54, 22 May 2006 contribs)| (→General - rm item which is no longer true, and another one which may no longer be true either (if still true, please readd this one))
  • 23:47, 21 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template tag lay-out)
  • 10:18, 13 May 2006 contribs)| (→See also - *Help:Template documentation)
  • 09:52, 13 May 2006 contribs)| (→msgnw - With the introduction of noinclude and includeonly tags, allowing template pages to take care of definition as well as displaying information, msgnw displaying all, with the tags, has beco)
  • 02:30, 12 May 2006 contribs)| (link to mw:Help:Termplates because it has all for beginners)
  • 02:25, 12 May 2006 contribs)| (→Version 1.6 - noinclude + includeonly)
  • 02:21, 12 May 2006 contribs)| (→Comparison of linking and embedding - strip confusing / unclear comparison of link vs. embed, add note about redirect / embed)
  • 02:10, 12 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Version 1.6)
  • 02:09, 12 May 2006 contribs)| (→Templates in different versions of MediaWiki - trim)
  • 01:59, 12 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates - rm "triple braces within a template" . we can't look into predefined templates, and paramters are explained above and in Help:Parameter default)
  • 01:19, 12 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates - #switch)
  • 00:54, 12 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Predefined templates - s/equal sign/abc/)
  • 00:52, 12 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates - (edit conflict) page is still far too long and I make it lomger, sigh)
  • 00:17, 12 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates)
  • 23:50, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (Stll needs more cleanup, but down from 45 to 23 sections, that appear to be relevant and on topic)
  • 23:42, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates - from talk)
  • 23:39, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates - restore (see talk))
  • 23:26, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Navigational templates - rm - the emulation of categories with templates can be disruptive)
  • 23:23, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Newline in a template - rm - not notable or far too incomplete to be useful)
  • 23:22, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→A template looked upon as a subroutine - philosophical CS lecture removed, this is a help page, no collection of essays)
  • 23:19, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Linking to a template - rm bogus speculations / talk)
  • 23:18, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Simple computations - As stated the section is obsolete (and covered by other pages), therefore just delete it)
  • 23:16, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→A category tag in a template; caching problem - ACK, therefore remove the section, it's covered in Help:Category)
  • 23:13, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Developing templates and template tags - rm special migration considerations - those who know what this section is about don't need it)
  • 23:11, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Rewriting a template that calls other templates in a self-contained form - rm - advanced subst issues have their own help page)
  • 23:06, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Stale cache purge - rm - too advanced and probably obsolete ad reported by HappyDog elsewhere)
  • 23:05, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter if no default has been specified - rm explanation of old fixed bug)
  • 23:02, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Named vs. numbered parameters - rm - already covered above)
  • 23:01, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Navigational images - rm - this is the help page for templates, not fine points of advanced image templates)
  • 22:59, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Template talk page - rm, this is not generally the case)
  • 22:58, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Server cache impacts - rm - cache issues are too advanced for new editors)
  • 22:56, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Images in templates - rm - images have their own help pages)
  • 22:55, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Link for editing a template - rm - covered elsewhere, this is a help page, not a list of all useful templates)
  • 22:53, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→EasyTimeline code with a template parameter is not allowed - rm, has its own help page)
  • 22:52, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Math tags - rm (2nd attempt))
  • 22:50, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Examples - rm dubious link collection of cruft, the newer specific pages like Help:Substitution have better examples)
  • 22:47, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→See also - +Help:Substitution, KEEP CLEANUP TAG, still over 160 KB)
  • 22:45, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→See also - hide m: prefix for non-portable links)
  • 22:44, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→See also - rm cruft, add MW:HELP here avoiding the dubious term "policy")
  • 22:32, 11 May 2006 contribs)| m (→See also - rm inputbox (it can preload any page, not only templates))
  • 22:31, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Reserved template names - rm MW:HELP is too inconsistent for such broad claim)
  • 22:29, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Templates in different versions of MediaWiki - rm dubious claim about msg: in 1.5)
  • 21:40, 11 May 2006 User:71.132.130.23 (→Noinclude and includeonly - rm false claim about subst:)
  • 03:22, 11 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates - "parameter number" stuff moved to talk page)
  • 18:25, 10 May 2006 contribs)| m (→A category tag in a template; caching problem - no longer a problem...)
  • 18:22, 10 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Noinclude and includeonly - link to job queue info)
  • 10:24, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates - restore with better examples)
  • 07:47, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates - rm cryptic remark about parameter numbers, for #if etc. the 2nd then parameter affects {{{1}}}, the 3rd else parameter {{{2}}}, etc. (#expr has no 2nd param to start with))
  • 05:47, 10 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Predefined templates)
  • 05:46, 10 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates - They do not have a page that defines in terms of wikitext what they do, because their action is something extra that cannot be constructed from more basic wikitext functiona)
  • 10:02, 9 May 2006 contribs)| (In a template name the character "#" and any characters after that are ignored: <nowiki>{{tc#abc}}</nowiki> gives {{tc#abc}}. This is used in {{tiw|en|hif}}.)
  • 16:15, 8 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates)
  • 16:11, 8 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates)
  • 15:51, 8 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates)
  • 15:39, 8 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates)
  • 15:32, 8 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates)
  • 15:23, 8 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates)
  • 15:21, 8 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Predefined templates)
  • 15:07, 8 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Predefined templates)
  • 15:06, 8 May 2006 contribs)| (→Predefined templates)
  • 14:49, 8 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Predefined templates)
  • 14:48, 8 May 2006 contribs)| (Help:Variables, parser functions, and other "help:colon funtions" can be considered predefined templates, sometimes with some difference in syntax, such as ":" instead of the first "|".)
  • 11:30, 5 May 2006 contribs)| (→Use of templates across projects - wikicities -> wikia)
  • 09:50, 3 May 2006 contribs)| (→Subst - :''Main article:Help:Substitution'' (moved))
  • 21:33, 29 April 2006 User:69.249.144.39 (→General - "refer" is ambiguous; show how to create a hyperlink to the template page)
  • 09:53, 24 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Optional substitution)
  • 09:51, 24 April 2006 contribs)| (→Subst magic - === Optional substitution ===)
  • 09:47, 24 April 2006 contribs)| (→Conditional substitution - Example table with computations, with optional substitution)
  • 09:45, 24 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Conditional substitution)
  • 09:44, 24 April 2006 contribs)| (→Conditional substitution - The parameter {{{subst}}} used in B can be given one of the possible values as default: {{{subst|}}} or {{{subst|subst:}}}.)
  • 09:04, 24 April 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by Kingcorn to last version by Patrick)
  • 08:42, 24 April 2006 contribs)| (→Conditional substitution)
  • 08:35, 24 April 2006 contribs)| (→includeonly/noinclude - ==== Conditional substitution ====)
  • 08:32, 24 April 2006 contribs)| (→includeonly/noinclude - Then B can be included in A with <nowiki>{{B|subst=|..}}</nowiki> or substituted in A with <nowiki>{{subst:B|subst=subst:|..}}</nowiki>.)
  • 08:28, 24 April 2006 contribs)| (→includeonly/noinclude - To make a page B that calls C suitable for both inclusion in A and multi-level substitution in A, use instead of "subst:" a parameter that takes the value "subst:" or "".)
  • 05:43, 24 April 2006 contribs)| (→Templates in different versions of MediaWiki - mention Version 1.5)
  • 22:49, 23 April 2006 contribs)| (→includeonly/noinclude - Substitution demo)
  • 11:09, 23 April 2006 contribs)| (→includeonly/noinclude - See also {{tim|Example table with computations with subst}} and {{tiw|en|Conv-dist}}.)
  • 01:17, 23 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Effect of an undefined parameter if no default has been specified - nowiki added as there where some problems with showing the code)
  • 23:30, 22 April 2006 contribs)| (→Subst - Applying subst to a ParserFunction works, provided that there is no space between "subst:" and "#".)
  • 23:46, 14 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Simple computations)
  • 23:43, 14 April 2006 contribs)| (→Simple computations - ''With ParserFunctions installed, this section is obsolete.'')
  • 20:53, 12 April 2006 contribs)| (→Link for editing a template - trim cruft)
  • 20:45, 12 April 2006 contribs)| (→Link for editing a template - timc is horrible for templates with long noinclude sections, use tim)
  • 20:19, 12 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Effect of an undefined parameter if no default has been specified - trim / readability with tlx)
  • 20:11, 12 April 2006 contribs)| (→General - rm bogus image crap)
  • 20:05, 12 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Providing effective repetition without repetition of similar template calls in the wikitext - rm monstrous title, clobbered sidebar floating with ToC)
  • 14:10, 3 April 2006 contribs)| m (→Use of templates across projects)
  • 14:08, 3 April 2006 contribs)| (→Use of templates across projects - update wikia)
  • 15:20, 23 March 2006 User:149.225.10.23 (→See also - remove old external links, use mediazilla:)
  • 19:10, 21 March 2006 contribs)| (→Example: numeric parameter substitution; use of a default)
  • 19:06, 21 March 2006 contribs)| (→Declaring a default value)
  • 18:46, 21 March 2006 contribs)| (→Example: numeric parameter substitution; use of a default - Break out examples for readability)
  • 18:35, 21 March 2006 contribs)| (→Example: numeric parameter substitution and use of a default - Adding the simplest, most basic case first)
  • 01:41, 18 March 2006 User:199.3.224.3 (→msgnw - Clarification: which edit box)
  • 01:37, 18 March 2006 User:199.3.224.3 (→Equals sign in parameter value - typo: perameter --> parameter)
  • 08:48, 11 March 2006 contribs)| m (→Template mechanism)
  • 03:59, 9 March 2006 User:209.33.24.118 (→Template mechanism - Someone needs to come up with an alternative example to replace the deleted "If defined" template)
  • 19:45, 4 March 2006 contribs)| (other analogies)
  • 19:30, 4 March 2006 contribs)| (→Server cache impacts - neutralizing server load claims)
  • 02:53, 26 February 2006 contribs)| (→Example: named parameter substitution)
  • 02:44, 26 February 2006 User:66.92.237.118 (→Example: named parameter substitution - supply paragraph break)
  • 13:09, 20 February 2006 contribs)| (→Use of templates across projects - Broke apart "export and import" link into separate links to Help:Export and Help:Import as the previous page said it should not be linked to)
  • 11:38, 17 February 2006 contribs)| (→See also - *Help:Colon function)
  • 12:30, 11 February 2006 contribs)| (→External links - rm bit which no longer seems true)
  • 22:51, 10 February 2006 contribs)| m (→Template mechanism - If defined call1 is deprecated in favor of If defined)
  • 18:41, 31 January 2006 User:209.213.198.25 (Fix spelling, checked via dictionary.com and google.)
  • 18:07, 31 January 2006 contribs)| m (→Equals sign in parameter value - accidentally misspelling)
  • 07:04, 24 January 2006 contribs)| m (→Images in templates - projet -> project)
  • 17:51, 21 January 2006 contribs)| (Added "Help:A simple composite example" link)
  • 01:18, 21 January 2006 contribs)| (→Template mechanism - restore bit (read next item))
  • 16:04, 20 January 2006 contribs)| (ensured line-breaks clarrify the 3 cases)
  • 16:02, 20 January 2006 contribs)| (reordered and clarified examples)
  • 15:56, 20 January 2006 contribs)| (clarified template:t example)
  • 15:51, 20 January 2006 contribs)| (→Template mechanism)
  • 15:44, 20 January 2006 contribs)| (explained example more clearly)
  • 15:11, 20 January 2006 contribs)| (made clearer where talking about definition of template and call of the template)
  • 15:02, 20 January 2006 contribs)| (spaced example to make things clear)
  • 15:00, 20 January 2006 contribs)| (changed parms to be in italic rather than bold)
  • 14:58, 20 January 2006 contribs)| (want to make the template link clearer)
  • 14:54, 20 January 2006 contribs)| (Added simple non-abstract example)
  • 01:28, 28 December 2005 User:150.124.1.5 (→Server cache impacts - Italisized varibles so thay stand out)
  • 18:30, 22 December 2005 User:84.187.153.91 (→Effect of an undefined parameter if no default has been specified)
  • 10:11, 21 December 2005 contribs)| (→includeonly/noinclude)
  • 10:04, 21 December 2005 contribs)| (→includeonly/noinclude)
  • 01:39, 21 December 2005 contribs)| m (→includeonly/noinclude)
  • 01:24, 21 December 2005 contribs)| (→nowiki/pre)
  • 01:10, 21 December 2005 contribs)| m (→includeonly/noinclude)
  • 01:07, 21 December 2005 contribs)| m (→Subst magic)
  • 22:00, 20 December 2005 contribs)| (→Subst magic)
  • 21:49, 20 December 2005 contribs)| (→Subst magic - tmp)
  • 21:39, 20 December 2005 contribs)| (→Subst - tmp)
  • 02:56, 19 December 2005 contribs)| (Moved project specific stuff to the template.)
  • 22:31, 17 December 2005 contribs)| (→Simple computations - :For a MediaWiki extension, currently not implemented in Wikimedia projects, providing an alternative method of performing simple calculations, see Calc.)
  • 20:26, 15 December 2005 contribs)| m (→Parameters - slighty changed the layout in the introduction)
  • 02:02, 12 December 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - See also Help:Parameter default.)
  • 17:35, 10 December 2005 contribs)| m (→Template talk page)
  • 04:23, 10 December 2005 contribs)| (→Template talk page)
  • 04:09, 10 December 2005 contribs)| (rm *using as the caption of an image the editable part of its image page)
  • 02:38, 10 December 2005 contribs)| (bypass redirect)
  • 11:54, 9 December 2005 contribs)| (the page is rather long, and splitting off parts may be useful; however, rm cluttering and unhelpful cleanup tag)
  • 05:27, 9 December 2005 contribs)| (Fixed the Foundation's name and a few interwiki hyperlinks.)
  • 16:36, 8 December 2005 contribs)| (cleaup needed)
  • 10:27, 8 December 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters)
  • 10:20, 8 December 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - This also makes it possible to apply a default value for parameter 1, while specifying a value for parameter 2.)
  • 11:19, 4 December 2005 contribs)| (→Providing effective repetition without repetition of similar template calls in the wikitext)
  • 11:13, 4 December 2005 contribs)| (→Providing effective repetition without repetition of similar template calls in the wikitext)
  • 11:09, 4 December 2005 contribs)| (→Providing effective repetition without repetition of similar template calls in the wikitext)
  • 11:04, 4 December 2005 contribs)| (→Providing effective repetition without repetition of similar template calls in the wikitext)
  • 10:14, 4 December 2005 contribs)| m (→Providing effective repetition without repetition of similar template calls in the wikitext)
  • 03:55, 4 December 2005 contribs)| (→Subst - striked out obsolete sentence)
  • 03:52, 4 December 2005 contribs)| (→Subst - striked out obsolete sentence)
  • 14:02, 3 December 2005 contribs)| (→Subst - *If the name of a parameter depends on the default value of another parameter then applying subst does not evaluate that parameter.)
  • 13:57, 3 December 2005 contribs)| (→Subst - complications)
  • 11:10, 2 December 2005 User:84.190.81.123 (→Equals sign in parameter value - spelling mistake)
  • 13:11, 1 December 2005 contribs)| (from w:Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#subst_expansions:Applying subst to a template containing four tildes in nowiki tags, the latter are preserved but not applied, i.e., the wikitext of t)
  • 12:54, 1 December 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - examples)
  • 02:29, 27 November 2005 contribs)| m (→Restrictions on parameter values)
  • 02:28, 27 November 2005 contribs)| m (→Restrictions on parameter values)
  • 03:46, 25 November 2005 contribs)| (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
  • 18:10, 23 November 2005 User:84.185.225.166 (→Parameters - {{MW 1.6|(for parameters defaults)}})
  • 06:43, 16 November 2005 contribs)| (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
  • 04:56, 16 November 2005 contribs)| (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
  • 03:46, 16 November 2005 contribs)| (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
  • 10:35, 12 November 2005 contribs)| m (→Noinclude and includeonly)
  • 10:33, 12 November 2005 contribs)| (Note that spaces and newlines between the general content and e.g. the noinclude part are part of the content, so if they are not desired the include tag should not be put on a new line.)
  • 09:18, 12 November 2005 contribs)| m (→Restrictions on parameter values)
  • 09:12, 12 November 2005 contribs)| (new bug:*A parameter value can contain pairs of square brackets or text to be used within a link, but not a closing part of one link and an opening part of another link: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>tli|abc]]de)
  • 04:33, 12 November 2005 contribs)| (→Server cache impacts - Move purge example after cache discussion, tweak title and last sentence.)
  • 04:18, 12 November 2005 contribs)| (→Caching - Move section below cache model.)
  • 04:16, 12 November 2005 contribs)| (→Server cache efficiency - Clarification +. Add a general 'simple model' caveat and example. Move other factors to comments)
  • 00:26, 12 November 2005 contribs)| (→Navigational templates - Also for a link to a section the self-link feature does not work.)
  • 11:16, 11 November 2005 contribs)| m (→Server cache efficiency)
  • 06:35, 11 November 2005 contribs)| (→Server efficiency - move impact consierations up, use more mnemonic frequency variables.)
  • 04:35, 11 November 2005 contribs)| m (→Indentation or list code at the beginning of template content - Restrain myself from introducing the term 'indent character'.)
  • 04:32, 11 November 2005 contribs)| (→Indentation or list code at the beginning of template content - Reorder and number examples to simplify identification. Include action for parm values.)
  • 01:14, 11 November 2005 contribs)| (→Server efficiency - Projects may have policies like e.g. w:en:Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-templates.)
  • 00:58, 11 November 2005 contribs)| (clarify: The master version of this page is the page m:Help:Template on Meta-Wikipedia;)
  • 21:58, 10 November 2005 contribs)| (rv - mia culpa - confused Meta-Wikipedia with w:Help:Talk)
  • 21:38, 10 November 2005 contribs)| m (Add link to w:Help:Template in the lead para.)
  • 10:47, 5 November 2005 contribs)| (→Subst - However, it requires applying "noinclude" and "includeonly" manually, or at least disabling the "includeonly" tag by changing one character of it.)
  • 10:43, 5 November 2005 contribs)| (→Subst - However, "noinclude" and "includeonly" are not applied: everything, including these tags, is included.)
  • 10:27, 5 November 2005 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly - "subst" (see below) includes everything, also these tags.)
  • 21:18, 3 November 2005 contribs)| m (→subst - cap section title)
  • 16:13, 31 October 2005 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly - where page content is arranged such that a selection of it can be displayed in a different format in a table row.)
  • 15:59, 31 October 2005 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly - See also {{pi|b:en|en.wikibooks.org||Rueda de Casino/Abajo}}.)
  • 15:55, 31 October 2005 contribs)| (With these tags a page can also call one of two specified templates with the same parameters, depending on whether the page is included in another page, by putting the tags in the template name part o)
  • 13:02, 31 October 2005 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly - in particular this is useful when including an article in a user page or test page)
  • 13:00, 31 October 2005 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly - including a page in another page without putting the including page in the categories the included page is in)
  • 23:53, 26 October 2005 contribs)| m (→Effect of an undefined parameter if no default has been specified)
  • 23:52, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter if no default has been specified - update)
  • 23:45, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (→Template tag lay-out)
  • 23:37, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (Clarifications about how the chess layout effectively works and how its parameters are numbered.)
  • 23:21, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (→Template tag lay-out)
  • 22:57, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (Ooops! correction)
  • 22:56, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (→Template tag lay-out)
  • 22:52, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters)
  • 22:28, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (Move reference to Wikicities at end of the article, and signal that Wikicities projects are NOT hosted by Wikipedia.)
  • 22:01, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (→Indentation or list code at the beginning of template content)
  • 21:51, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (→Interwiki links)
  • 21:42, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (→Images in templates)
  • 21:31, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (→Images in templates)
  • 20:51, 26 October 2005 contribs)| (clarifications of confusinve rendering by adding some surrounding quoting punctations)
  • 15:40, 24 October 2005 contribs)| (→Restrictions on parameter values - update)
  • 12:22, 22 October 2005 contribs)| m (→Restrictions on parameter values)
  • 10:35, 22 October 2005 contribs)| (→Backlinks - rm (restriction has been lifted))
  • 10:32, 22 October 2005 contribs)| (→Rewriting a template that calls other templates in a self-contained form)
  • 00:25, 21 October 2005 contribs)| (→Template page)
  • 00:23, 21 October 2005 contribs)| (→Template page)
  • 00:19, 21 October 2005 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter - update)
  • 00:16, 21 October 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters)
  • 00:15, 21 October 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - defaults)
  • 23:49, 13 October 2005 contribs)| m (→Developing templates and template tags)
  • 22:39, 12 October 2005 User:204.50.1.140 (→Developing templates and template tags - minor grammar edit)
  • 17:19, 28 September 2005 contribs)| (→Repetition within a page)
  • 13:25, 23 September 2005 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 161.88.255.139 to last version by Cryptic)
  • 13:05, 12 September 2005 contribs)| m (→A category tag in a template; caching problem - except->accept)
  • 13:02, 12 September 2005 contribs)| m (→A category tag in a template; caching problem - update null edit section lk)
  • 12:48, 30 August 2005 contribs)| (→Interwiki links - See also below.)
  • 12:44, 30 August 2005 contribs)| (→Noinclude and includeonly - - see also above.)
  • 22:10, 29 August 2005 contribs)| m (→Interwiki links)
  • 23:22, 23 August 2005 contribs)| (==Noinclude and includeonly==)
  • 23:21, 23 August 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki><noinclude> and </noinclude></nowiki>)
  • 23:19, 23 August 2005 contribs)| (→<nowiki><noinclude> and </noinclude></nowiki> - rearrange)
  • 16:41, 23 August 2005 contribs)| m (→<nowiki><noinclude> and </noinclude></nowiki>)
  • 16:38, 23 August 2005 contribs)| (==<nowiki><noinclude> and </noinclude></nowiki>==copied from http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-August/031123.html)
  • 14:00, 22 August 2005 contribs)| (→See also - *Template talk:Include demo (provisional documentation))
  • 14:32, 4 August 2005 contribs)| (Those on the central Wikicities work in the separate Wikicities projects, provided that the prefix "wikicities:" is used, see wikicities:Help:Shared templates. */)
  • 14:13, 3 August 2005 contribs)| m (→A category tag in a template; caching problem)
  • 08:53, 19 July 2005 contribs)| m (→A template looked upon as a subroutine)
  • 08:28, 19 July 2005 contribs)| (→A template looked upon as a subroutine - A template can also be considered an operator, with the number of parameters being the arity.)
  • 12:20, 17 July 2005 contribs)| (→General - the site WikiFAQ calls it Snippet)
  • 13:30, 16 July 2005 contribs)| (→General - partly from w:en: helpdesk)
  • 08:39, 16 July 2005 contribs)| (→subst - See also bugzilla:2777, a request for a version of subst that automatically works recursively.)
  • 05:58, 16 July 2005 contribs)| (→Use of templates across projects - including content transcluded from other pages on Commons,)
  • 16:04, 9 July 2005 contribs)| (→Use of templates across projects - Transclusion across projects, hence changing contents from a central place, is only possible:)
  • 14:34, 8 July 2005 contribs)| (MediaWiki templates, variables and parameters cannot be used within math tags, seeTemplate talk:Demo of attempt to use parameters within TeX.)
  • 14:24, 6 July 2005 contribs)| (Similar to applying "subst:" to include page A in page B, in the case that B does not exist yet and that A does not have parameters, is using an Help:inputbox to create B, preloading A. A differe)
  • 09:54, 6 July 2005 contribs)| (→See also - *Help:Inputbox - preload a "template" when creating a new page.)
  • 21:43, 5 July 2005 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 217.245.48.182 to last version by Patrick)
  • 03:40, 5 July 2005 contribs)| (→Use of templates across projects - Transclusion across projects, hence changing contents from a central place, is only possible in the form of an image on Commons.)
  • 09:30, 1 July 2005 contribs)| (even if a subbtopic page does not provide additional info, if it is linked to it is useful to display the content, it saves the trouble of checking the contents by following the link.)
  • 08:23, 1 July 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages - sometimes people have sentimental reasons for having a separate page about a topic, e.g. a village)
  • 06:19, 28 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Effect of an undefined parameter)
  • 14:03, 25 June 2005 contribs)| (→General - more details on list of templates used on a page)
  • 03:22, 25 June 2005 User:69.170.73.95 (→Restrictions on parameter values - Added bullets to conform to the rest of the document)
  • 09:24, 24 June 2005 contribs)| (→Simple computations - unary numeral system)
  • 12:21, 20 June 2005 contribs)| (Templates can be used to control the page body, the margins are controlled by the skin and user style.)
  • 12:11, 14 June 2005 contribs)| (→General - Parameter names are case-sensitive, even with respect to the first letter, and spaces are distinguished from underscores.)
  • 08:08, 14 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Indentation or list code at the beginning of template content)
  • 08:07, 14 June 2005 contribs)| (*/The characters :;*# at the beginning of template content is interpreted as if it is at the beginning of a line, unless nowiki tags are used:)
  • 00:23, 14 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Template tag lay-out)
  • 00:22, 14 June 2005 contribs)| (→Template tag lay-out)
  • 08:53, 13 June 2005 contribs)| (If a template calls itself directly or indirectly, inclusion works only on one level for each template. However, with templates redirecting to the template that one would want to call recursively, on)
  • 13:24, 11 June 2005 contribs)| (→Pages with a common section)
  • 06:52, 11 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Rewriting a template that calls another template, whose name depends on a variable or parameter, in a self-contained form)
  • 06:48, 11 June 2005 contribs)| (→Rewriting a template that calls another template, whose name depends on a variable or parameter, in a self-contained form)
  • 06:45, 11 June 2005 contribs)| (→Rewriting a template that calls another template, whose name depends on a variable or parameter, in a self-contained form)
  • 06:35, 11 June 2005 contribs)| (→Rewriting a template that calls other templates in a self-contained form)
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  • 06:24, 11 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Rewriting a template that calls other templates in a self-contained form)
  • 06:22, 11 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Rewriting a template that calls other templates in a self-contained form - testing {{subst:h:f {{NAMESPACE}}|langs=|enname=Template}})
  • 06:21, 11 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Rewriting a template that calls other templates in a self-contained form - testing {{subst:H:f|enname=Template}})
  • 23:29, 10 June 2005 contribs)| (→Developing templates and template tags)
  • 23:24, 10 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Simple computations)
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  • 23:21, 10 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Simple computations)
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  • 21:18, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (→Simple computations)
  • 21:10, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (→Simple computations)
  • 20:59, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (→A template looked upon as a subroutine)
  • 15:48, 9 June 2005 contribs)| m (→A template looked upon as a subroutine)
  • 15:48, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (→A template looked upon as a subroutine)
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  • 14:47, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (→A template looked upon as a subroutine)
  • 14:11, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (→A template looked upon as a subroutine)
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  • 13:55, 9 June 2005 contribs)| m (→A template looked upon as a subroutine)
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  • 13:51, 9 June 2005 contribs)| m (→A template looked upon as a subroutine)
  • 13:43, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (==A template looked upon as a subroutine==)
  • 12:39, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (→Rewriting a template that calls other templates in a self-contained form)
  • 12:36, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (→Rewriting a template that calls other templates in a self-contained form)
  • 12:31, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (→Rewriting a template that calls other templates in a self-contained form)
  • 12:21, 9 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Rewriting a template that calls other templates in a form that does not)
  • 12:17, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (==Rewriting a template that calls other templates in a form that does not==)
  • 06:35, 9 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Pages with a common section)
  • 06:33, 9 June 2005 contribs)| (→Pages with a common section)
  • 15:09, 8 June 2005 contribs)| (After evaluating template names depending on variables (the result of which can be viewed by applying subst to these variables), the process is applied recursively until there are no more template cal)
  • 14:07, 8 June 2005 contribs)| (*if the template call contains a variable, subst has to be applied to that variable as well, otherwise the first two closing braces of the parameter are interpreted as closing braces of the template.)
  • 13:43, 8 June 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - rephrase)
  • 13:18, 8 June 2005 contribs)| ((this can either be imagined as evaluating the parameter value expression once and substituting the result for each occurrence, or substituting the parameter value expression in each occurrence, to be)
  • 12:56, 8 June 2005 contribs)| (Thus the formal parameter (the placeholder for the parameter value) is the parameter name with three pairs of braces.)
  • 12:40, 8 June 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - They are called-by-value, and therefore input parameters only.)
  • 12:17, 8 June 2005 contribs)| (→Usage - See also advantages of subprograms.)
  • 23:12, 6 June 2005 contribs)| (→Restrictions on parameter use - rm, has been fixed)
  • 23:39, 5 June 2005 contribs)| (→subst - Usage of a template through "subst:" does not show up in page histories, backlinks, etc.)
  • 11:19, 5 June 2005 contribs)| (→Remarks -Parameter 02 is distinguished from parameter 2)
  • 10:52, 5 June 2005 contribs)| (→Restrictions on parameter values - Template parameters have been used in HTML attributes, but after a bug-fix this is currently not possible, see bugzilla:2309.)
  • 12:55, 4 June 2005 contribs)| (→Link for editing a template - This is e.g. convenient for editing an individual entry in a table, without having to search in the wikitext of the table.)
  • 12:48, 4 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Link for editing a template)
  • 12:31, 4 June 2005 contribs)| (→Link for editing a template)
  • 10:33, 4 June 2005 contribs)| (→Pages with a common section)
  • 10:29, 4 June 2005 contribs)| (→Usage - chg order of sections and rename one)
  • 10:23, 4 June 2005 contribs)| (→Other duplication of content)
  • 10:19, 4 June 2005 contribs)| (→Other duplication of content)
  • 10:13, 4 June 2005 contribs)| (*Pages like C can be put in the same namespace as A and B, or in the template namespace. An advantage of the first option is that the kind of content of C is the same as that of A and B; an advantage)
  • 10:04, 4 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Other duplication of content)
  • 10:02, 4 June 2005 contribs)| (→Other duplication of content)
  • 09:59, 4 June 2005 contribs)| (→Other duplication of content)
  • 09:34, 4 June 2005 contribs)| (→Other duplication of content - Complications:)
  • 11:46, 3 June 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages)
  • 06:14, 3 June 2005 contribs)| (→Server efficiency)
  • 06:03, 3 June 2005 contribs)| (→Server efficiency)
  • 05:47, 3 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Server efficiency)
  • 05:46, 3 June 2005 contribs)| (→Server efficiency)
  • 05:43, 3 June 2005 contribs)| (→Caching - ==Server efficiency==)
  • 13:08, 2 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Composite pages)
  • 12:57, 2 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Composite pages)
  • 12:54, 2 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Composite pages - use subst to make it work)
  • 12:41, 2 June 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages - See also w:en:Wikipedia talk:Template namespace#transcluding prose.)
  • 10:56, 2 June 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages)
  • 06:11, 2 June 2005 contribs)| (→General -re:talk: update)
  • 10:35, 1 June 2005 contribs)| (Conversely, for easy access from a component page to the composite page(s) that call(s) it (if there are not too many of them) it is convenient to link the component page to them (on a composite page)
  • 10:14, 1 June 2005 contribs)| (→See also -describe linked page)
  • 06:32, 1 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Composite pages)
  • 06:30, 1 June 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages)
  • 06:22, 1 June 2005 contribs)| (On the other hand, the component page may, by itself, be of a nature that it belongs in e.g. the main namespace, while the prefix would suggest otherwise; also the prefix would clutter the pagename.)
  • 06:16, 1 June 2005 contribs)| (An advantage of putting the components in the template namespace is that they are then included in the list of templates used on the composite page, all with links, on its edit page.)
  • 06:10, 1 June 2005 contribs)| (A list of templates used on a page, all with links, is given on the edit page (however, only those in the template namespace, ''not'' pages in other namespaces, transcluded in the page).)
  • 06:00, 1 June 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages - combinedly (which is much more convenient if there are many small component pages);)
  • 05:55, 1 June 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages)
  • 05:46, 1 June 2005 contribs)| m (→Composite pages)
  • 05:44, 1 June 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages - component page)
  • 05:35, 1 June 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages -examples)
  • 12:20, 31 May 2005 contribs)| (→See also - *MediaWiki namespace (includes the use of templates in versions before 1.3))
  • 10:34, 28 May 2005 contribs)| (*article of the day on the English Wikipedia: see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=Today&namespace=4 list] - included as a template on the main page.)
  • 08:49, 28 May 2005 contribs)| (→Examples - *{{ti|fr|Peru region table}} - intermediate template for translating the parameter names, containing e.g. "superficie = {{{area}}}")
  • 08:35, 28 May 2005 contribs)| (*numbers are international, both in the template tags and in the parameter tags in the template, no parameter name has to be translated (alternatively, one can e.g. use English names, only editors wou)
  • 22:29, 27 May 2005 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 200.121.78.108 to last version by Patrick)
  • 08:22, 26 May 2005 contribs)| (→Redirection - As usual, a double redirect does not work.)
  • 16:03, 25 May 2005 contribs)| (→Backlinks - Alternative, one can use multiple copies of the template, and link not more than 500 pages to each.)
  • 15:51, 25 May 2005 contribs)| (For example, w:en Template:Void has more than the 500 backlinks it shows. Thus it is not clear through what templates they link to it (in fact, w:en:Template:Infobox CVG is one of them).)
  • 10:07, 25 May 2005 contribs)| (→Named vs. numbered parameters - this works even if there is a newline somewhere before the "=", although a newline is not allowed in a parameter name).)
  • 09:45, 25 May 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - mv down ''(supported in '''versions 1.3 and higher''')'')
  • 09:44, 25 May 2005 contribs)| (→Version 1.2.6 - In this version parameters are not possible.)
  • 09:40, 25 May 2005 contribs)| (==Use of templates across projects==)
  • 09:26, 25 May 2005 contribs)| (The adjustments needed in the copy, to work on the other project, can be reduced by using <nowiki>{{</nowiki>SERVER}}, localurl, Project, and writing links in a way that works on multiple projects, e.)
  • 09:16, 25 May 2005 contribs)| (==Developing templates and template tags==)
  • 22:06, 22 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Restrictions on parameter values)
  • 12:33, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (Branching techniques can be applied to handle special cases such a)
  • 12:18, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Viewing the contents of a template - rm dup)
  • 12:16, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template page)
  • 12:11, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter - mv from other section)
  • 12:07, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template page)
  • 11:51, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template page -rm dup)
  • 11:44, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter)
  • 11:40, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (This is an example of a case where it matters that a parameter value is defined, even though the value does not make any difference in the result.)
  • 11:32, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter)
  • 11:22, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter)
  • 11:17, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter)
  • 11:14, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter)
  • 11:06, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter)
  • 11:01, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter)
  • 10:59, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Effect of an undefined parameter)
  • 10:55, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template page)
  • 09:33, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template page)
  • 09:29, 21 May 2005 contribs)| (the first two consecutive closing braces in a template tag are taken to be those for the template tag, so this applies for the first two of the three closing braces of the first parameter tag in thete)
  • 13:58, 20 May 2005 contribs)| (→Images in templates - For cases for which an image is not applicable or available, use a dummy image such as w:en:Image:No image.png.)
  • 12:22, 20 May 2005 contribs)| (→Images in templates)
  • 12:16, 20 May 2005 contribs)| (→Named vs. numbered parameters)
  • 12:10, 20 May 2005 contribs)| (→Named vs. numbered parameters)
  • 12:07, 20 May 2005 contribs)| (→Named vs. numbered parameters)
  • 12:04, 20 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Named vs. numbered parameters)
  • 12:02, 20 May 2005 contribs)| (**a dummy unnamed variable for comment and for formatting the template call can be inserted at any time, without planning in advance or renumbering)
  • 11:56, 20 May 2005 contribs)| (==Named vs. numbered parameters==)
  • 22:34, 19 May 2005 contribs)| (==Template tag lay-out==)
  • 22:32, 19 May 2005 contribs)| (→Restrictions on parameter values)
  • 22:25, 19 May 2005 contribs)| (If parameters are named, dummy parameters can easily be inserted at any time. If they are unnamed, then, to avoid renumbering, one can insert named parameters: any text including an equals sign will d)
  • 13:42, 19 May 2005 contribs)| (→Restrictions on parameter values)
  • 13:26, 19 May 2005 contribs)| (→Restrictions on parameter values)
  • 13:19, 19 May 2005 contribs)| (→Restrictions on parameter values)
  • 13:16, 19 May 2005 contribs)| (To have a desired template-tag lay-out, especially in the case of many parameters, additional dummy parameters can be used with a newline, e.g., using {{ut|t3d}},)
  • 12:04, 19 May 2005 contribs)| (Newlines in parameter values provide the lay-out of the template tag, but they are not allowed in image names, therefore they are put within comment tags; alternatively, dummy parameters could be used)
  • 11:43, 19 May 2005 contribs)| (*allow a composite image, composed of a table of images, to be specified by a template tag which itself has a corresponding table-like lay-out, see w:en:Template:Chess position and [[w:en:Template)
  • 15:29, 18 May 2005 contribs)| m (rmv spamvertizing)
  • 06:14, 18 May 2005 contribs)| ('''From version 1.5 the tag <nowiki>{{</nowiki>msg:abc}} refers to Template:Msg:abc !''')
  • 06:05, 18 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template talk page - In complicated cases, "subst:" can he very helpful in the explanation, see below.)
  • 05:57, 18 May 2005 contribs)| (==Template talk page==)
  • 10:08, 16 May 2005 contribs)| (→subst - It can also be used to create a page independent of templates, to archive the rendered page and allow a permalink to it.)
  • 11:40, 14 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Equals sign in parameter value)
  • 11:38, 14 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Equals sign in parameter value)
  • 11:37, 14 May 2005 contribs)| (→Equals sign in parameter value)
  • 11:32, 14 May 2005 contribs)| (→Equals sign in parameter value)
  • 07:25, 14 May 2005 contribs)| (→subst -See e.g. Template talk:Lop.)
  • 06:30, 14 May 2005 contribs)| (The expression for a parameter value cannot contain the variable localurl with query string, due to the pipe character. (BUG))
  • 11:00, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→Linking to a template)
  • 10:52, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (Coming close to this is a page with links like [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Templates_of_Wikimedia_projects&action=edit&section=1 Template pages] and)
  • 10:31, 13 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Linking to a template)
  • 10:30, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (*Template:Table of Wikimedia projects provides a table of links to similar pages on all projects, depending on a parameter, e.g. all main pages, or all lists of templates. A page would be convenie)
  • 10:12, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→Alternatives for subst - rm section)
  • 10:05, 13 May 2005 contribs)| m (→A category tag in a template; caching problem)
  • 10:03, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→Piped link with parameters - update: rm section)
  • 09:54, 13 May 2005 contribs)| m (→External links)
  • 09:51, 13 May 2005 contribs)| m (→External links)
  • 09:50, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→External links)
  • 09:45, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→Images in templates - seems fixed)
  • 08:51, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→Images in templates)
  • 08:48, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→Images in templates)
  • 08:39, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→Avoiding repetition of similar template calls)
  • 08:38, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→Avoiding repetition of similar template calls)
  • 08:32, 13 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Avoiding repetition of similar template calls)
  • 08:29, 13 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Avoiding repetition of similar template calls)
  • 08:25, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (The replacement of a template tag by wikitext does not automatically work recursively: if the template calls another template, that tag is not replaced. One can subsequently add "subst:" again, thus d)
  • 07:45, 13 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Link for editing a template)
  • 07:43, 13 May 2005 contribs)| (→Link for editing a template)
  • 11:43, 12 May 2005 contribs)| (→General - Bugzilla:1126 is a request to lift that restriction, i.e. allow interwiki use of templates.)
  • 01:54, 12 May 2005 contribs)| (→See also - *Templates of Wikimedia projects)
  • 21:37, 10 May 2005 contribs)| (the name can depend on the content of templates; this is not possible for the name of an embedded page, not even indirectly: the name can depend on a parameter, but a parameter value or name can also)
  • 21:03, 10 May 2005 contribs)| (a single page can have different rendered content; this is not possible with a link; note that embedding a page with a link still does not allow the linked page to depend on parameters)
  • 10:58, 10 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Avoiding repetition of similar template calls)
  • 07:20, 10 May 2005 contribs)| (→Comparison of linking and embedding)
  • 07:10, 10 May 2005 contribs)| (→Comparison of linking and embedding)
  • 07:06, 10 May 2005 contribs)| (→Comparison of linking and embedding)
  • 06:59, 10 May 2005 contribs)| (==Comparison of linking and embedding==)
  • 23:10, 6 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Avoiding repetition of similar template calls)
  • 22:47, 6 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Avoiding repetition of similar template calls)
  • 09:03, 6 May 2005 contribs)| (rm sidebar: most links duplicate what is already at the bottom, the rest is in the linked Help:Contents)
  • 08:57, 6 May 2005 contribs)| (→General -example)
  • 10:13, 5 May 2005 contribs)| ((this prefix can be used in all languages, but the canonical prefixes in other languages than English include Vorlage, Modèle, Sjabloon, with colon).)
  • 22:52, 4 May 2005 contribs)| (→Remarks - The empty string is also a valid parameter name, see Template:T empty string as parameter name.)
  • 13:51, 4 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Repetition within a page)
  • 13:46, 4 May 2005 contribs)| (→Avoiding repetition of similar template calls)
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  • 12:32, 4 May 2005 contribs)| (====Avoiding repetition of similar template calls====)
  • 23:55, 3 May 2005 contribs)| (→Repetition within a page - Adding a language adds to each row and also adds an extra row.)
  • 23:52, 3 May 2005 contribs)| (→Repetition within a page - Similarly Template:Lanlp 1 is used for both the inner and the outer of a double loop.)
  • 14:00, 3 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Repetition within a page)
  • 12:19, 3 May 2005 contribs)| (The number of levels that the template can handle is determined by the number of parameters specified in the two template calls it comprises (because going up a level requires an extra parameter) and)
  • 12:09, 3 May 2005 contribs)| (An example where the same template is used for different loop levels is Template:Loop 2. Because of a built-in protection against infinite nesting, a redirect is used for each level.)
  • 10:42, 3 May 2005 contribs)| (A double loop is achieved by a second template that repeatedly calls the first. Similarly for a triple loop, etc. See e.g. w:en:Template:Ld, w:en:Template:L2d, and w:en:Template:L3d.)
  • 10:14, 3 May 2005 contribs)| (→Internal links)
  • 09:42, 3 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Internal links)
  • 09:35, 3 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Internal links)
  • 09:25, 3 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Internal links)
  • 09:05, 3 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template page - {{ut|t2}})
  • 08:59, 3 May 2005 contribs)| (Using a template a section on the relationship of A and B can be put both in the page about A and in that about B. It is useful that this duplication is clear to the reader, by a message or a special)
  • 08:28, 3 May 2005 contribs)| (→Link for editing a template - {{Help:Editing sections of included templates}})
  • 23:16, 2 May 2005 contribs)| (→See also - mv down)
  • 14:03, 2 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template producing the name of the talk namespace of the calling page - moved to Help:Template names, variable names and parameters depending on a variable or parameter)
  • 13:39, 2 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template producing the name of the talk namespace of the calling page)
  • 13:37, 2 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template producing the name of the talk namespace of the calling page)
  • 13:21, 2 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template producing the name of the talk namespace of the calling page)
  • 12:50, 2 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Template producing the name of the talk namespace of the calling page)
  • 12:49, 2 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template producing the name of the talk namespace of the calling page)
  • 12:47, 2 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template producing the name of the talk namespace of the calling page)
  • 12:44, 2 May 2005 contribs)| (→Template producing the name of the talk namespace of the calling page - Template:Name of talk namespace)
  • 12:34, 2 May 2005 contribs)| (→Restrictions on parameter values)
  • 12:29, 2 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Restrictions on parameter values)
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  • 11:31, 2 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Restrictions on parameter values)
  • 11:29, 2 May 2005 contribs)| (===Restrictions on parameter values===)
  • 10:21, 2 May 2005 contribs)| (→Repetition within a page)
  • 03:26, 2 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Remarks - missing <)
  • 22:21, 1 May 2005 contribs)| (→Viewing the contents of a template)
  • 22:09, 1 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Template page)
  • 09:28, 1 May 2005 contribs)| m (→Repetition within a page)
  • 09:27, 1 May 2005 contribs)| (→Repetition within a page)
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  • 09:12, 1 May 2005 contribs)| (→Repetition within a page)
  • 09:10, 1 May 2005 contribs)| (→Repetition within a page)
  • 08:51, 1 May 2005 contribs)| (For a succession of similar pieces of content, as in a list, a computer program would use a loop. What comes closest in MediaWiki is putting the loop body in a tem)
  • 08:36, 1 May 2005 contribs)| (It is comparable with a subroutine.)
  • 12:28, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→See also - *Help:A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 12:27, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→Usage - See also '''Help:A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces'''.)
  • 12:26, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces - moved to Help:A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 12:19, 29 April 2005 contribs)| m (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 10:43, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→In-page array content)
  • 10:23, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→In-page array content)
  • 10:19, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→In-page array content)
  • 10:07, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→Template based "case statements")
  • 10:01, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→Template based "case statements")
  • 09:53, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→A 1D array contained in a template)
  • 09:43, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→A template name or a parameter value depending on a parameter or variable)
  • 09:26, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→A 2D array contained in a single template)
  • 09:18, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→Arrays of higher dimensions)
  • 09:02, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→Arrays with a template for each element)
  • 08:37, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→Arrays with a template for each element)
  • 08:18, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (====A 2D array contained in a single template====)
  • 08:06, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (An 3D array element is referred to by <nowiki>{{</nowiki>''3D-array-name'' ''index1'' ''separator'' ''index2'' |''index3'' }}, etc.)
  • 07:47, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→A 1D array contained in a template)
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  • 07:23, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→A 1D array contained in a template)
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  • 06:59, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→A 1D array contained in a template)
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  • 01:04, 29 April 2005 contribs)| (→A 1D array contained in a template)
  • 22:44, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (→A 1D array contained in a template)
  • 22:40, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (→A 1D array contained in a template)
  • 22:35, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (→A template name or a parameter value depending on a parameter or variable)
  • 13:45, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (→Template based "case statements")
  • 13:19, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - update)
  • 13:02, 28 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Example 1)
  • 12:58, 28 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Template based "case statements")
  • 12:37, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (→Example 1 -misc)
  • 12:06, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (See e.g. Template:List of Languages.)
  • 12:02, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (for diagonal elements such as Template:Lang name - de (de) there are, in addition, copies such as Template:Lang name - de).)
  • 11:52, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (Elements of a 1D array can e.g. be referred to inside a template with {{''text1'' {{{''index''}}} ''text2''}} using parameter ''index'', or similarly with a variable. Also a page can successively call)
  • 10:51, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (Elements can e.g. be referred to inside a template with {{''text1'' {{{''index''}}} ''text2''}} using parameter ''index'', or similarly with a variable.)
  • 10:41, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (In the case of a 2D array ''text2'' and the possible values of ''index1'' and ''index2'' should be chosen such that there is no ambiguity; e.g. if ''text2'' is the empty string and ''index1'' and ''in)
  • 10:32, 28 April 2005 contribs)| m (→A template name or a parameter value depending on a parameter or variable)
  • 10:28, 28 April 2005 contribs)| m (→A template name or a parameter value depending on a parameter or variable)
  • 10:26, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (→A template name or a parameter value depending on a parameter or variable - associative array)
  • 10:21, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (the contents of each template is the word for a language, expressed in the same or another language, e.g. Template:Lang name - de (fr) contains "Allemand", which is "German" in French.)
  • 10:01, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (Also it provides an alternative way of calling a template, which can be used in the case of a name conflict with a variable, e.g. Template:Ns:3 and Template:PAGENAME.)
  • 02:23, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (→A template name or a parameter value depending on a parameter or variable -matrix)
  • 02:19, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (For example, on Meta there are templates with names of the form "Lang_name_-_''language referred to''_(''language used'' )" with codes used for the two languages (see [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/inde)
  • 02:13, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (a 2D array has elements of the form ''text1'' ''index1'' ''text2'' ''index2'' ''text3''.)
  • 02:10, 28 April 2005 contribs)| (Thus a set of templates can form a kind of array. A 1D array has elements of the form (i.e templates named) ''text1'' ''index'' ''text2''.)
  • 11:36, 27 April 2005 contribs)| (A single newline works like a space, except in a list, there it breaks the list. Since templates containing a single paragraph or less could be called from a list, such templates should avoid single n)
  • 10:17, 27 April 2005 contribs)| m (→A variable name depending on a parameter)
  • 10:14, 27 April 2005 contribs)| (===A variable name depending on a parameter===)
  • 09:58, 27 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Impossibility to include the content of a template in a template name, variable name, or parameter value)
  • 09:57, 27 April 2005 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces - combine sections)
  • 09:40, 27 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Impossibility to use a variable with a name dependent on the content of a template)
  • 09:38, 27 April 2005 contribs)| (===Impossibility to use a variale with a name dependent on the content of a template===)
  • 08:17, 27 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Restrictions and possibilities)
  • 08:13, 27 April 2005 contribs)| (→Restrictions and possibilities - sections)
  • 07:24, 27 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Template based "case statements")
  • 01:59, 26 April 2005 contribs)| (→Examples - *Template:H:f Help - calls one of many templates, depending on pagename.)
  • 01:56, 26 April 2005 contribs)| (→Examples - *Template:H:f - calls one of several templates, dependent on namespace)
  • 21:34, 23 April 2005 contribs)| ({{h:g|enname=Template}})
  • 10:50, 23 April 2005 contribs)| m (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 22:29, 22 April 2005 contribs)| (→Reserved template names)
  • 22:25, 22 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Reserved template names)
  • 22:24, 22 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Reserved template names)
  • 22:19, 22 April 2005 contribs)| (→Reserved template names - The reserved names are those of which the canonical form of the URL starts with http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA:H:)
  • 10:42, 22 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Reserved template names)
  • 10:35, 22 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Reserved template names)
  • 10:32, 22 April 2005 contribs)| (→Reserved template names)
  • 10:27, 22 April 2005 contribs)| (→Reserved template names - except that the result of he:Template:h: has the left colon at the left of the h.)
  • 10:03, 22 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Reserved template names)
  • 10:01, 22 April 2005 contribs)| (→Reserved template names -*for Hebrew "H:f:" comes to the left of the Hebrew word for template תבנית , see he:Template:h:f.)
  • 09:08, 22 April 2005 contribs)| (→Reserved template names)
  • 09:03, 22 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Reserved template names)
  • 09:01, 22 April 2005 contribs)| (→Reserved template names)
  • 08:32, 22 April 2005 contribs)| (→Reserved template names)
  • 08:29, 22 April 2005 contribs)| (→Reserved template names)
  • 08:13, 22 April 2005 contribs)| (According to the Help:MediaWiki help policy some template names are reserved for use in the Help namespace: those with the full names starting with "Template:h:".)
  • 13:49, 21 April 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages - the composite page shows the combined interlanguage links of all parts, hence possibly multiple links for one language or even for one page.)
  • 12:58, 21 April 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages)
  • 11:59, 21 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Composite pages)
  • 11:58, 21 April 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages)
  • 11:38, 21 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Duplication of content)
  • 11:34, 21 April 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages)
  • 11:29, 21 April 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages)
  • 11:22, 21 April 2005 contribs)| (→Composite pages)
  • 11:18, 21 April 2005 contribs)| (This allows the user the choice between viewing the parts separately (e.g. if he has a slow connection) or combinedly. Similar to the section editing feature, it also allows editing a part; however, t)
  • 11:13, 21 April 2005 contribs)| (The wikitext of a page may (partly or fully) consist of tags for the inclusion of other pages. Examples are w:en:Wikipedia:Village pump and m:Meta:Translation/Coordination.)
  • 11:06, 21 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Duplication of content)
  • 00:46, 21 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Link for editing a template)
  • 00:45, 21 April 2005 contribs)| (→Link for editing a template)
  • 21:30, 20 April 2005 contribs)| ({{h:f|langs=|enname=Template}})
  • 21:22, 20 April 2005 contribs)| ({{h:h|Editor toc}})
  • 14:50, 19 April 2005 contribs)| ({{h:|See also Meta:List of templates.}})
  • 22:19, 18 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Parameters)
  • 22:15, 18 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Parameters)
  • 17:24, 18 April 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - parameter .. to be improved again)
  • 12:13, 13 April 2005 contribs)| (→Examples - add m: so that it also works on a copy of this page in another project)
  • 20:27, 9 April 2005 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces - parameter value)
  • 15:27, 9 April 2005 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces - explain what's happening, give clearer example)
  • 15:42, 7 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Parameters)
  • 15:28, 7 April 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - In this case the space has effect.)
  • 15:24, 7 April 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters -Spaces before or after a parameter are normally ignored:)
  • 15:12, 7 April 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters -rm spaces, spaces in parameters is perhaps better a separate issue)
  • 11:45, 7 April 2005 contribs)| (→msgnw -simpler example; Parameters are ignored)
  • 21:27, 5 April 2005 contribs)| (→msgnw - more detailed explanation)
  • 09:55, 5 April 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - On a side note, the rendering of the page Template:t2a1 is confusing, as a result of parsing the code differently from when it is used, i.e. called with a parameter.)
  • 09:49, 5 April 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - if it should, do not omit the parameter value but specify it in terms of a parameter of the calling page;)
  • 09:37, 5 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Parameters)
  • 09:33, 5 April 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters -If a parameter is left undefined, the triple braced parameter name in the result does not function as a parameter if the page is called as a template from another page: compare:)
  • 08:46, 5 April 2005 contribs)| (→Example 1 -:<code>{{msgnw:creature demo}}</code>)
  • 01:05, 5 April 2005 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces - clarify example)
  • 00:56, 5 April 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - several clarifications)
  • 23:57, 4 April 2005 contribs)| (→Example 1 - paste code direct w/ nowiki)
  • 23:43, 4 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Example 1 - formatting)
  • 23:41, 4 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Example 1 - typos)
  • 23:36, 4 April 2005 contribs)| (→Template based "case statements" - +creature demo)
  • 05:30, 4 April 2005 contribs)| (intro - define template, explain what this document is, describe link to "A quick guide to templates", move v1.4 note to version section)
  • 10:32, 1 April 2005 contribs)| (→General -from Talk (but I do not know the answer to the question))
  • 10:19, 1 April 2005 contribs)| (When saving a page without newline at the end, a newline is automatically added. This is relevant if the page is called as a template: if their is no other newline after the template call, a space is)
  • 08:13, 28 March 2005 contribs)| m (→Images in templates - The example and the description was made more distinguisable.)
  • 06:39, 25 March 2005 contribs)| m (→Version 1.2.6=)
  • 06:31, 25 March 2005 contribs)| m (→=Version 1.3)
  • 06:30, 25 March 2005 contribs)| (==Old versions of Mediawiki==)
  • 06:30, 25 March 2005 contribs)| m (+{{handbook sidebar|Editor toc}})
  • 10:23, 13 March 2005 contribs)| (→Redirection)
  • 10:15, 13 March 2005 contribs)| m (→Redirection)
  • 10:14, 13 March 2005 contribs)| (→Redirection)
  • 10:00, 13 March 2005 contribs)| m (→Redirection)
  • 10:58, 4 March 2005 contribs)| (→Linking to a template - the Special:Mapsources feature,)
  • 10:55, 4 March 2005 contribs)| (except that no computations are possible, but, on the other hand, it would enable multiple editable "Map sources pages" in the form of templates.)
  • 09:59, 4 March 2005 contribs)| (like a limited version of http://kvaleberg.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Mapsources/59_55_N_10_44_E, proposed as extension of MediaWiki, but then with multiple editable "Map sources pages" in the form o)
  • 09:41, 4 March 2005 contribs)| (*for given geo-coordinates, link to a page such as w:Template:Mapeu with links to maps of that location; this would be like a limited version of the proposed Special:Mapsources, with multiple)
  • 09:32, 4 March 2005 contribs)| (→Linking to a template - *for given geo-coordinates, link to a page with links to maps of that location)
  • 12:57, 18 February 2005 contribs)| m (→Parameters)
  • 12:53, 18 February 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - misc)
  • 09:59, 11 February 2005 contribs)| (Concludingly, adding or deleting a category tag in a template that is already in use should be avoided unless one is willing to make the null edits, or is willing to except the (possibly very long) de)
  • 09:47, 11 February 2005 contribs)| (→A category tag in a template; caching problem)
  • 09:34, 11 February 2005 contribs)| (Thus, a basic principle of templates, that changing the contents of a template automatically changes the pages that contain the template, does not extend to these pages being correctly listed on categ)
  • 09:24, 11 February 2005 contribs)| (→A category tag in a template; caching problem)
  • 00:39, 8 February 2005 contribs)| (→See also - rm dead links)
  • 00:36, 8 February 2005 contribs)| (→Viewing the contents of a template - ::''For other uses, see Otheruses (disambiguation).'')
  • 00:54, 7 February 2005 contribs)| (In other languages the same or something similar may not be possible. For such cases, see [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531 Bug 531] on using templates to effectively create a new var)
  • 00:48, 7 February 2005 contribs)| (In English language projects the name of a talk namespace is usually simply "<nowiki>{{NAMESPACE}}</nowiki> talk", here giving {{NAMESPACE}} talk. With this a link can be produced:)
  • 18:12, 6 February 2005 contribs)| (→See also - Link to a method to use templates to solve a bug)
  • 23:57, 1 February 2005 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 67.176.155.23 to last version by Silsor)
  • 02:40, 27 January 2005 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 83.115.73.29 to last version by Patrick)
  • 09:11, 26 January 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters - Another case where the implicit name of an unnamed parameter has to be given explicitly, is when its value contains an equals sign:)
  • 09:03, 26 January 2005 contribs)| (mv new bit up)
  • 08:52, 26 January 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters -By treating the second unnamed parameter as a parameter with the name "2", the first unnamed parameter can be left undefined: <nowiki>{{t2|2=a}}</nowiki> gives {{t2|2=a}}.)
  • 02:12, 26 January 2005 User:219.78.35.228 (→Special characters within template variable values)
  • 17:35, 23 January 2005 contribs)| m (→Examples - nl)
  • 21:12, 22 January 2005 contribs)| (→Examples - Aide:Modèle)
  • 21:07, 22 January 2005 contribs)| (→Examples -Wikipedia:Sjabloon naamruimte)
  • 04:33, 22 January 2005 contribs)| m (→Navigational templates - bold in bold)
  • 17:28, 21 January 2005 contribs)| m (→A category tag in a template; caching problem - "Hi" --> "Hh")
  • 08:41, 21 January 2005 contribs)| m (→Example)
  • 08:24, 21 January 2005 contribs)| (clarify: once for each case, i.e. not for each line separately.)
  • 08:04, 21 January 2005 contribs)| (→Example - update)
  • 01:48, 21 January 2005 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces - "each case" --> "all cases")
  • 12:01, 19 January 2005 contribs)| (→Viewing the contents of a template - update)
  • 06:12, 19 January 2005 contribs)| m (→Navigational templates - "In" --> "in")
  • 02:57, 19 January 2005 contribs)| (→Viewing the contents of a template - Deleted is a sentence seemingly relevalent to context now given up.)
  • 17:04, 18 January 2005 contribs)| (→Default values of parameters - Notes on the template inclusion)
  • 17:14, 17 January 2005 contribs)| m (→General - two nowiki's are moved)
  • 07:41, 17 January 2005 contribs)| (→subst - update)
  • 04:42, 16 January 2005 contribs)| (→subst - The bug seems now fixed. See ({{bug|89}}).)
  • 05:03, 14 January 2005 contribs)| m (→External links - " and .)
  • 06:46, 13 January 2005 contribs)| m (→Images in templates - The page "Help:Template" is listed in the "Image links" section.)
  • 02:44, 13 January 2005 contribs)| m (→Example - appearance of the Example)
  • 02:28, 13 January 2005 contribs)| m (→Example - "than" --> "then")
  • 17:13, 12 January 2005 contribs)| m (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces - double quotes)
  • 04:22, 8 January 2005 contribs)| (→Parameters -Revision of the example)
  • 12:26, 24 December 2004 contribs)| m (→See also)
  • 12:14, 24 December 2004 contribs)| (*[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Allpages|namespace=10}} Templates in this project])
  • 11:33, 24 December 2004 contribs)| (→General - (supported in version 1.4 and higher))
  • 11:28, 24 December 2004 contribs)| (A list of templates used on a page is given on the edit page. Even on a section edit page the whole list is given, i.e. also the templates used in other sections.)
  • 11:20, 24 December 2004 contribs)| (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page - update: rm)
  • 11:10, 24 December 2004 contribs)| (*Including the same template more than five times in the same page works from version 1.4, now on (almost?) all Wikimedia sites.)
  • 02:40, 14 December 2004 contribs)| (→List of templates used in a page - 1.4)
  • 02:39, 14 December 2004 contribs)| (==List of templates used in a page==)
  • 22:18, 11 December 2004 contribs)| (version 1.4, now on Meta, Commons and Test)
  • 22:02, 11 December 2004 contribs)| (when viewing the page in version 1.3, and startaend when when viewing the page in version 1.4 and also when previewing during section editing),)
  • 08:23, 19 November 2004 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 82.82.71.52 to last version by Patrick)
  • 12:12, 9 November 2004 contribs)| (With a template name depending on a parameter a kind of "case statement" is possible, where data used in multiple cases need to be)
  • 11:55, 9 November 2004 contribs)| (With a template name depending on a parameter a kind of "case statement" is possible.)
  • 10:42, 9 November 2004 contribs)| (→Example -simplification)
  • 10:32, 9 November 2004 contribs)| m (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 10:24, 9 November 2004 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 09:27, 9 November 2004 contribs)| (→Example -explanation)
  • 09:10, 9 November 2004 contribs)| (====Example====)
  • 09:05, 9 November 2004 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 08:26, 9 November 2004 contribs)| (working on demo)
  • 09:49, 6 November 2004 contribs)| m (→Caching)
  • 09:47, 6 November 2004 contribs)| (In order to update a page in such cases (and also after creation of a category which was referenced but not defined before), use {{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAMEE}}|action=purge}})
  • 12:05, 5 November 2004 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 12:03, 5 November 2004 contribs)| (For example, a template can be made such that, depending on a parameter, produces either just a standard text or also an additional text. This is done by having it call another template, of which the)
  • 09:45, 5 November 2004 contribs)| m (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 06:41, 18 October 2004 contribs)| (==Interlanguage link (software feature)== copied from there)
  • 20:52, 13 October 2004 contribs)| ({{{{NAMESPACE}}}}, using Template:Help, gives demo.)
  • 07:02, 29 September 2004 contribs)| (==EasyTimeline code with a template parameter is not allowed==)
  • 09:33, 24 September 2004 contribs)| (→See also - *Templates in this project)
  • 09:07, 24 September 2004 contribs)| (Various equivalent terms)
  • 08:58, 24 September 2004 contribs)| (mv to Meta:Templates)
  • 14:00, 20 September 2004 contribs)| (→Internal links)
  • 12:11, 20 September 2004 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 11:46, 20 September 2004 contribs)| m (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 11:29, 20 September 2004 contribs)| m (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 11:28, 20 September 2004 contribs)| ('''New:''' A template name can depend on the value of a parameter: <nowiki>{{tt|tc}}</nowiki> using Template:Tt, is equivalent to <nowiki>{{tc}}</nowiki> and produces {{tt|tc}}.)
  • 11:16, 20 September 2004 contribs)| (Thus, one way of making a template is putting the tag first, and then following the link.)
  • 06:04, 20 September 2004 contribs)| (→Internal links)
  • 06:01, 20 September 2004 contribs)| (→Internal links -'''New:''' If, inside the double square brackets, a template is called that produces a text with a pipe character, it ''is'' interpreted as)
  • 05:56, 20 September 2004 contribs)| ('''New:''' in the case of an internal link in a template with the target depending on a parameter, and in the case of a link with the target depending on a template, existence detection works as usual)
  • 05:43, 20 September 2004 contribs)| (→Images in templates -New: In a template, image code parameters can contain template parameters,)
  • 02:09, 20 September 2004 contribs)| m (→Duplication of content)
  • 20:17, 17 September 2004 contribs)| m (→Duplication of content)
  • 20:16, 17 September 2004 contribs)| (→Duplication of content - incorporated new text, deleted link to talk, because the page is copied to other projects)
  • 12:26, 17 September 2004 contribs)| m (→Not recommended - duplication of content.. disuputed --> talk page discussion linked to)
  • 08:00, 12 September 2004 contribs)| (*The master version of this page, m:Help:Template, is on Meta-Wikipedia; template demo's work there, but may not work if you are viewing a copy of that page on another project.)
  • 15:18, 11 September 2004 contribs)| m (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page)
  • 13:04, 10 September 2004 contribs)| m (→A category specified in a template; caching problem)
  • 12:24, 10 September 2004 contribs)| (→A category specified in a template)
  • 13:25, 3 September 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters)
  • 13:21, 3 September 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters)
  • 22:13, 2 September 2004 contribs)| (→Usage - applied in Wiktionaries for names of languages, terms like "noun", etc., see Using templates in Wiktionary;)
  • 09:27, 2 September 2004 contribs)| m (→Viewing the contents of a template)
  • 00:14, 2 September 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters)
  • 19:46, 1 September 2004 contribs)| m (→Examples)
  • 12:05, 1 September 2004 contribs)| ('''''Note: Including the same template more than five times in the same page works from version 1.4, now on http://test.wikipedia.org only.''''')
  • 15:26, 31 August 2004 contribs)| ({{hc|langs=Deutsch}})
  • 14:41, 31 August 2004 contribs)| (→Viewing the contents of a template; default values of parameters - misc)
  • 14:30, 31 August 2004 contribs)| (→Viewing the contents of a template -misc)
  • 01:01, 30 August 2004 contribs)| (→Redirection - Compare w:Plantanos with w:Plantanos - demo of alternative for redirect.)
  • 11:47, 28 August 2004 contribs)| (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page -(compare Template:Rec with [http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Rec]):)
  • 11:24, 28 August 2004 contribs)| (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page - http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_than_5_template_instances)
  • 11:23, 28 August 2004 contribs)| (Revision 1.210 of [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/includes/Parser.php Parser.php] is operational on test.wikipedia.org and will be in version 1.4. It involves a change in the t)
  • 08:23, 28 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page)
  • 03:07, 28 August 2004 contribs)| (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page - http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95)
  • 02:50, 28 August 2004 contribs)| (→subst - [http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89 bug 89]. If the template has parameters, the result has them too.)
  • 08:29, 27 August 2004 contribs)| (→A category specified in a template - Thus this is typically not applied to categorize templates, but to conveniently put pages in a category, based on the template they use.)
  • 08:23, 27 August 2004 contribs)| (If a template contains the code indicating that it is in a help:category, this does not only put that template in the category, but also the pages that include the template. For example, this pag)
  • 11:37, 26 August 2004 contribs)| (Unfortunately, when ''linking'' to a template instead of embedding it, transfer of parameters is not possible. This would have been useful e.g. to link to an enlarged image.)
  • 05:33, 23 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Images in templates)
  • 05:30, 23 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Images in templates)
  • 05:27, 23 August 2004 contribs)| (→Images in templates -Thus for Image:Tst.png the "Image links" lists Template:Timgc, but neither this page nor Template:T or Template:T1,)
  • 05:20, 23 August 2004 contribs)| (In none of these methods to embed an image into a page, the "Image links" section of the image description page show any page: they do neither show the final page nor the template. If only the caption)
  • 04:54, 23 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Restrictions)
  • 00:13, 23 August 2004 contribs)| (→Links and images - Of all these methods to embed an image into a page, only if the whole image code is a parameter, pages link to this image.)
  • 12:06, 22 August 2004 contribs)| (→Navigational images)
  • 11:54, 22 August 2004 contribs)| (→Navigational images)
  • 11:42, 22 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Navigational images)
  • 11:32, 22 August 2004 contribs)| (→External links)
  • 10:45, 22 August 2004 contribs)| m (→External links)
  • 10:43, 22 August 2004 contribs)| (→External links)
  • 10:42, 22 August 2004 contribs)| (→External links)
  • 10:17, 22 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page)
  • 10:16, 22 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Links and images)
  • 10:15, 22 August 2004 contribs)| (→Links and images)
  • 09:42, 22 August 2004 contribs)| (→Links and images)
  • 09:24, 22 August 2004 contribs)| (→Internal links)
  • 08:49, 22 August 2004 contribs)| (→Links and images)
  • 08:09, 22 August 2004 contribs)| (→Links and images)
  • 07:59, 22 August 2004 contribs)| (→Links and images)
  • 07:44, 22 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Links and images)
  • 06:54, 22 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Links and images)
  • 10:55, 21 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page)
  • 09:56, 21 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page)
  • 09:55, 21 August 2004 contribs)| (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page)
  • 09:51, 21 August 2004 contribs)| (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page)
  • 09:40, 21 August 2004 contribs)| (→Multiple inclusion of the same template in a page - The restriction, although this may not be the main purpose and not the best way, currently protects against infinite recursion)
  • 09:07, 21 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Links and images)
  • 08:59, 21 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Links and images - rm dup)
  • 08:39, 21 August 2004 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces -What does work is using a parameter in a parameter value: <nowiki>{{ttp|def}}</nowiki>, using Template:Ttp, gives {{ttp|def}}.)
  • 07:41, 21 August 2004 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 07:35, 21 August 2004 contribs)| m (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 07:22, 21 August 2004 contribs)| (→A pair of double or triple braces inside a pair of double braces)
  • 07:15, 21 August 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions)
  • 06:13, 21 August 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters - Thus the template mechanism involves two kinds of replacements:)
  • 13:13, 20 August 2004 contribs)| (→Links and images)
  • 13:10, 20 August 2004 contribs)| (→Links and images)
  • 11:55, 20 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Restrictions)
  • 11:46, 20 August 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions)
  • 11:35, 20 August 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions)
  • 11:17, 20 August 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions)
  • 11:01, 20 August 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions)
  • 09:49, 20 August 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions)
  • 09:38, 20 August 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions)
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  • 09:08, 20 August 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions)
  • 07:46, 20 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Restrictions)
  • 07:27, 20 August 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters)
  • 06:55, 20 August 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters -(compare <nowiki>startbend</nowiki> giving startbend: with the template the text after the link is not made part of the link label).)
  • 23:25, 19 August 2004 contribs)| (→Images in templates - update)
  • 23:22, 19 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Restrictions)
  • 23:22, 19 August 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions)
  • 23:16, 19 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Restrictions)
  • 23:15, 19 August 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions -more)
  • 22:25, 19 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Parameters)
  • 20:45, 19 August 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters - '''From the Aug 2004 version:''' a parameter value can contain a piped link; the "|" in such a link is not taken as parameter separator.)
  • 15:14, 19 August 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters - example)
  • 14:18, 19 August 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions - '''New:''': a parameter value can now contain a piped link; the "|" is in that case no longer taken as separating parameters.)
  • 09:50, 12 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Examples)
  • 09:28, 30 July 2004 contribs)| m (→Parameters)
  • 09:24, 30 July 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters -In the case of fewer parameter values, the result depends on the remaining parameters. This can be applied if the result is itself a template.)
  • 09:16, 30 July 2004 contribs)| ((either fixed or depending on parameters and/or variables))
  • 08:35, 29 July 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions - avoid ambiguous "repeated 6 times", can mean having 6 or having 7)
  • 08:29, 29 July 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions -This effect can cumulate with the five- or six-fold repetition mentioned above, see Template:Z in combination with Template:Y.)
  • 08:15, 29 July 2004 contribs)| m (→Restrictions)
  • 08:13, 29 July 2004 contribs)| (rephrase and move old to Talk)
  • 20:53, 28 July 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions - naive.)
  • 16:47, 27 July 2004 contribs)| m (added revision regarding version support)
  • 15:31, 26 July 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions -The restriction protects against infinite recursion, see e.g. en:Template:Cp.)
  • 09:19, 25 July 2004 contribs)| (→subst -(like ~~~~~ does).)
  • 09:14, 25 July 2004 contribs)| (→subst - One might be tempted to put this in a template, but then it would display the time of creation of the template; on the other hand, without the "subst:", it would give the time of loading t)
  • 08:23, 25 July 2004 contribs)| (→subst -Subst can also be applied to a variable itself; this works like applying it to a template. E.g. a timestamp:)
  • 08:02, 25 July 2004 contribs)| (→subst -An alternative that clutters the edit history less is, of course, copying the text from the edit box of the template page: then it can be edited before saving. Another method is using msgnw)
  • 07:41, 25 July 2004 contribs)| (rm interlanguage link explanation, not really needed, takes up much space before TOC)
  • 23:22, 23 July 2004 contribs)| (Wikimedia is not MediaWiki)
  • 08:35, 21 July 2004 contribs)| (==Templates on Meta itself== moved from MediaWiki namespace)
  • 22:19, 19 July 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions -If necessary, make copies of the template. E.g, use Template:sub five times and Template:sub1 also five times.)
  • 17:04, 17 July 2004 contribs)| (→subst - even when doing section edits on other sections.)
  • 16:51, 17 July 2004 contribs)| (→subst - The same template can not be substituted more than five times in one edit. However, in any subsequent edit five more are substituted. Thus one can press Edit and Save a few times just for)
  • 16:06, 17 July 2004 contribs)| ('''''Note: Currently the same template can not be included more than five times in the same page, making this mechanism less suitable for special characters, e.g. w:Template:Euro and repeatedly o)
  • 14:48, 17 July 2004 contribs)| (Pages in the stored page history consist of wikitext with possible ''references'' to templates and images. When viewing an old version of a page, these refer to the current versions of the templat)
  • 09:46, 17 July 2004 contribs)| m (→msgnw - shorter example)
  • 09:32, 17 July 2004 contribs)| (→subst - *Use {{..}}, then preview, and copy the result to the edit box, replacing {{..}}. One may prepare a template specially for this usage.)
  • 07:29, 17 July 2004 contribs)| m (→Restrictions)
  • 03:05, 17 July 2004 contribs)| (link to summary)
  • 21:17, 14 July 2004 contribs)| (→Redirection - *"double redirects", with one or both being this kind of "pseudo-redirect", work.)
  • 21:12, 14 July 2004 contribs)| (→Redirection - *the buttons such as edit, watch, talk, history, "what links here", etc., refer to the referring page. There is no button to go the target page)
  • 21:01, 14 July 2004 contribs)| (→Redirection - *the referring page is in the same categories as the target page)
  • 20:58, 14 July 2004 contribs)| (→Redirection - A page that consists of nothing else than the inclusion of another page is similar to a redirect to that other page.)
  • 20:44, 14 July 2004 contribs)| m (→Ridirection)
  • 20:44, 14 July 2004 contribs)| (When a page called for inclusion is a redirect page, the redirect target is included instead.)
  • 15:11, 13 July 2004 contribs)| (A template only works when referred to from a page in the same project. To use it in another project, one has to copy it to there.)
  • 12:51, 12 July 2004 contribs)| (→Navigational templates - For the predecessor of the first and the successor of the last a message like "none" can be used. This is not applicable In the case of a cycle, such as the days of the we)
  • 21:21, 11 July 2004 contribs)| m (→Restrictions)
  • 21:19, 11 July 2004 contribs)| (This is not possible if the prefix for an interwiki link to a project is the same as the prefix for the project namespace, like in Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikisource. In that case use a double prefi)
  • 21:12, 11 July 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions -Alternatively, one can use a seemingly superfluous prefix to get interwiki link style for an link within the same project. Then you arrive at the view page, not the edit page. See e.)
  • 15:18, 9 July 2004 contribs)| (Alternatively, one can use a U-turn like w:m:Help:Template (in this case: go from Meta to Meta through the English Wikipedia, then you arrive at the view page, not the edit page). See e.g. [[w:Tem)
  • 13:42, 9 July 2004 contribs)| m (→Piped link with parameters)
  • 11:01, 4 July 2004 contribs)| (→MediaWiki version 1.2.6 - Compatibility with 1.3, in the sense of having the content in Template:mytemplate, is possible with a redirect from MediaWiki:mytemplate to Template:mytemplate on the 1.2)
  • 10:53, 4 July 2004 contribs)| (In MediaWiki version 1.2.6, make a page MediaWiki:mytemplate and refer to it with <nowiki>{{msg:mytemplate}}</nowiki>.)
  • 11:59, 3 July 2004 contribs)| m (→Restrictions)
  • 11:58, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions - Template talk:T1)
  • 11:44, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions - The same template can not be included more than five times in the same page.)
  • 18:07, 30 June 2004 contribs)| (→See also - *Extended template syntax (proposal))
  • 10:47, 24 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Navigational templates)
  • 15:46, 19 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Piped link with parameters)
  • 15:44, 19 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Piped link with parameters)
  • 15:41, 19 June 2004 contribs)| (→Piped link -If you want to use internal link style but need more flexibility than is possible with the variable PAGENAME, make redirects from the initial target pages to the real ones, e.g. [[en:C)
  • 15:10, 19 June 2004 contribs)| (→Piped link - In particular ''target page'' and ''label'' can each be a parameter.)
  • 15:04, 19 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Piped link)
  • 15:03, 19 June 2004 contribs)| (Taking into account the restrictions above, and using Template:Pl, a convenient way of making a piped link with parameters is <nowiki>{{pl|target page|label}}</nowiki>, giving {{pl|target page)
  • 11:34, 16 June 2004 contribs)| (→subst - Help:Automatic conversion of wikitext)
  • 20:21, 15 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Parameters)
  • 20:09, 15 June 2004 contribs)| (In the case of an image or category, it gives the description part. Using a page outside the template namespace as template can be useful for:)
  • 01:22, 15 June 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters - a space is considered different fron an underscore, even though the template page does not show these differences.)
  • 01:01, 15 June 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters - Parameters are case-sensitive, even with respect to the first letter, and even though the template page does not show the difference for that.)
  • 20:49, 14 June 2004 contribs)| (→Images in templates - a postfix, consisting of the file name extension and possibly more, and possibly also a prefix)
  • 20:44, 14 June 2004 contribs)| (→Examples - templates with many parameters and images depending on {{PAGENAME}}:)
  • 20:27, 14 June 2004 contribs)| (→Examples - images depending on {{PAGENAME}}:)
  • 13:39, 14 June 2004 contribs)| (→See also - *Help:What links here)
  • 12:41, 14 June 2004 contribs)| (→Images in templates - in this case only the simplest image syntax can be used, because it can not contain a "|". / If the image syntax is in the template itself, with the ''image name'' depending)
  • 01:46, 14 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Images in templates)
  • 01:14, 14 June 2004 contribs)| (→Images in templates - *the whole image syntax is a parameter value, and this does not contain a "|".)
  • 01:27, 13 June 2004 contribs)| (→Navigational templates - A navigational template may also just allow going forward and backward in a linear sequence, e.g. en:Template:Pope. A little inconvenient is that it requires special s)
  • 07:50, 12 June 2004 contribs)| (→Images in templates - Template talk:Infobox Thai Province)
  • 07:47, 12 June 2004 contribs)| (→Images in templates - If the image name depends on a parameter, the image is not shown in the referring page, but there is the usual link to the proper image description page.)
  • 23:32, 11 June 2004 contribs)| (→subst - causes this command in the wikitext to be replaced by that of the template when the referring page is saved.)
  • 23:27, 11 June 2004 contribs)| (mv subst here from MediaWiki namespace and expand)
  • 23:08, 11 June 2004 contribs)| (In the case of too few parameter values, the result is like a template itself, depending on the remaining parameters.)
  • 13:02, 11 June 2004 contribs)| (→See also - *Message substitution - Earlier technical discussions)
  • 10:54, 11 June 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters -Note that parameters in the MediaWiki namespace (interface messages) are written as $1, $2, etc., see Meta-Wikimedia:MediaWiki namespace text.)
  • 09:07, 11 June 2004 contribs)| (→Not recommended - The recommended usages mentioned above do not tend to have these disadvantages.)
  • 08:58, 11 June 2004 contribs)| (Duplication of content (whether using a template or not), e.g. putting a section on the relationship of A and B both in the page about A and in that about B, is not recommended. It is confusing and ir)
  • 08:40, 11 June 2004 contribs)| ((tranclusion, creating a compound document) / rm dup)
  • 01:34, 11 June 2004 contribs)| (→Examples - Modèle:Tableau pays)
  • 00:57, 11 June 2004 contribs)| (→Examples - eo:Ŝablono:El - small, often used image)
  • 00:24, 11 June 2004 contribs)| (→Examples - more)
  • 00:15, 11 June 2004 contribs)| (→Examples - more)
  • 22:06, 10 June 2004 contribs)| (An image in a template that should be different for each page in which the template occurs, should be given a name of the form ''prefix''<nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki>''postfix'' (with a prefix, a post)
  • 16:23, 10 June 2004 contribs)| (eko de plurlingveco)
  • 15:46, 10 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Viewing the contents of a template)
  • 15:44, 10 June 2004 contribs)| (Conversely, parameters could be chosen which are not in use as template name (except, of course, if used for the purpose just mentioned).)
  • 15:39, 10 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Viewing the contents of a template)
  • 15:37, 10 June 2004 contribs)| (for clarity, a template can be created with the name of the parameter and as contents that name in double braces (as long as that template name is not needed for a more important purpose). This has be)
  • 14:28, 10 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Restrictions)
  • 14:11, 10 June 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions - misc)
  • 12:57, 10 June 2004 contribs)| (→Caching - pages referring to en:Template:Tc (typically template talk pages),)
  • 12:52, 10 June 2004 contribs)| (there are cases of indirect dependence where a page may still not be up-to-date, even after pressing Ctrl-F5 or similar. This is e.g. the case for en:Template:Tc, containing <nowiki>{{msgnw:{{PAGE)
  • 12:35, 10 June 2004 contribs)| (→See also - *MediaWiki_roadmap#Template_syntax - about the changes that occurred earlier)
  • 11:26, 10 June 2004 contribs)| (→Restrictions - also example of non-existing page)
  • 11:22, 10 June 2004 contribs)| (See e.g. en:Template:T2, with <nowiki>{{T2|H|a}}</nowiki> resulting on Wikipedia in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_by_name:_Ha Ha]. The link shows up as external, although it is to a)
  • 08:28, 10 June 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters - misc)
  • 23:41, 9 June 2004 contribs)| (→Restriction - variable in an image name works, e.g. Location of {{{the}}} {{PAGENAME}}, but apparently a parameter in it does not.)
  • 21:57, 9 June 2004 contribs)| (→Viewing the contents of a template - a page link, and also a referral to another template, that depends on a parameter is assumed to refer to a link to a nonexisting page and therefore rendered as)
  • 14:59, 9 June 2004 contribs)| (→See also - A parameter name or value can not contain a "|", since this separates parameters. If it is to be used for a piped link, perhaps external link style is a solution.)
  • 14:50, 9 June 2004 contribs)| (→See also - MediaWiki_1.3_comments_and_bug_reports#Bugs_related_to_templates)
  • 23:54, 8 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Viewing the contents of a template)
  • 23:44, 8 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Viewing the contents of a template)
  • 23:40, 8 June 2004 contribs)| (→Viewing the contents of a template - However, this does not affect the working. However, one pecularity is that a page link that depends on a parameter is assumed to be a nonexisting page and ther)
  • 12:35, 8 June 2004 contribs)| (useful for quoting interface messages in the MediaWiki namespace)
  • 12:26, 8 June 2004 contribs)| (→Usage - see e.g. en:Template:Familia and fr:Modèle:Familia.)
  • 11:53, 8 June 2004 contribs)| (→Usage - Templates are not only convenient, but they can also "force" a useful uniformity.)
  • 11:24, 8 June 2004 contribs)| (→See also - copying the contents of a template into the wikitext of another page.)
  • 11:22, 8 June 2004 contribs)| (→See also - *MediaWiki namespace - not up-to-date; see in particular the command "subst" for an alternative use of a template.)
  • 11:13, 8 June 2004 contribs)| (→Viewing the contents of a template - In wikitext, use "msgnw:" after the opening braces to display the contents.)
  • 11:10, 6 June 2004 contribs)| (main namespace too)
  • 10:59, 6 June 2004 contribs)| (→Usage - *infoboxes, each time showing the same kind of information in the same format, but each time for a different case, using parameters, e.g. the already mentioned [[en:Template:Infobox Countr)
  • 10:49, 6 June 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters - For an example with many parameters, see en:Template:Infobox Countries.)
  • 10:40, 6 June 2004 contribs)| (→Usage - Since parameters can be used, versions may to that extent even be different, and parameter values can be edited independently for each.)
  • 09:50, 6 June 2004 contribs)| (→Usage - However, templates should have the correct page names and not rely on redirecting, since the feature does not work in that case.)
  • 09:07, 6 June 2004 contribs)| (Templates are useful for any text for which one wants a copy in two or more pages, and there is no need for each copy to be edited independently, to adapt it to the page it is in.)
  • 08:56, 6 June 2004 contribs)| (Sometimes an edit link is not really needed, e.g. in a template containing a list of provinces in a country, which has been carefully checked for errors and has a format that is not likely to require)
  • 14:16, 5 June 2004 contribs)| (en:Wikipedia:Template namespace)
  • 13:55, 5 June 2004 contribs)| (→Parameters - On rendering, surplus parameters are ignored. In the case of too few, see below.)
  • 13:52, 5 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Viewing the contents of a template)
  • 13:46, 5 June 2004 contribs)| (→Viewing the contents of a template - If a page refers to a template but does not specify the parameters (or not all), then the page will render them in the same way as is shown on the template pag)
  • 12:18, 5 June 2004 contribs)| (This is mainly useful for experimenting with templates in subpages of one's userpage.)
  • 09:11, 5 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Link for editing template)
  • 09:08, 5 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Viewing the contents of a template)
  • 08:57, 5 June 2004 contribs)| (the contents of a template)
  • 08:16, 5 June 2004 contribs)| (The edit link on each page does not allow editing of template text appearing on that page. Therefore it can be desirable to have a special link for that purpose. This link can be put in the template i)
  • 07:41, 5 June 2004 contribs)| (A variable in a template is evaluated after insertion in the referring page, i.e. if <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> occurs in the wikitext of a template, it is rendered as the name of)
  • 07:01, 5 June 2004 contribs)| (partly rewritten)
  • 21:27, 2 June 2004 contribs)| (Typical applications on Wikipedia are custom messages such as <nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki> and navigational elements such as <nowiki>{{europe}}</nowiki>./ misc)
  • 21:04, 2 June 2004 contribs)| (The contents of any page outside the main namespace can be referred to in another page, and be inserted when that page is rendered. The syntax is {{full page name}}; if the page is in the Template nam)
  • 20:30, 2 June 2004 contribs)| (Note that to see the contents of a template, one needs to look in the edit-box and not just on the page itself: on the latter the parameters are not shown, but applied.)
  • 20:12, 2 June 2004 contribs)| (copied from MediaWiki roadmap)

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