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Full details can be found in Help:Template, Wikipedia:Templates and m:Help:Advanced templates. A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input. Templates sometimes use MediaWiki parser functions ...
This is a template, linked from several pages as an example of one. If you want a space to experiment with the process of editing Wikipedia pages, go to WP:FOO, the main sandbox, instead. The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Foo/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases ...
Template. : Fooian fooers. This template is used on approximately 13,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.
For the template to create a for loop, see Template:For loop. This template is used on approximately 200,000 pages. To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit.
For a citation to appear in a footnote, it needs to be enclosed in "ref" tags. You can add these by typing <ref> at the front of the citation and </ref> at the end. . Alternatively you may notice above the edit box there is a row of "markup" formatting buttons which include a <ref></ref> button to the right—if you highlight your whole citation and then click this markup button, it will ...
Templates are pages that are embedded (transcluded) into other pages to allow for the repetition of information. Wikipedia:List of infoboxes for infoboxes, which are small panels that summarize key features of the page's subject. Wikipedia:Requested templates, to request creation of a template. Use this form to search in the Template: or ...
This template is used to configure the articles found in the Selected person or Selected biography section found on most Wikipedia Portal main pages. Use it on the article pages that are linked to the Selected person sub-page, e.g. Portal:Foo/Selected person/1. For the quickest and easiest way to create the Portal:Foo/Selected bar sub-page and ...
Help:Template limits. The MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia has several parameters that limit the complexity of a page, and the amount of data that can be included. These limits mainly concern data that is transcluded or substituted during expansion of a page, as opposed to data directly in the source of the page itself.