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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, nicknamed " magic words ", a simple scripting language.
The "Template" icon (a puzzle piece) allows you to edit templates. The "Invisible comment" item (a speech balloon with a "!") allows you to insert comments that are not visible to readers; these comments can be seen only when in edit mode and are then indicated by an exclamation mark icon. The "Table" icon allows you to insert a table.
This help page is a . The markup language called wikitext, also known as wiki markup or wikicode, consists of the syntax and keywords used by the MediaWiki software to format a page. (Note the lowercase spelling of these terms. [a]) To learn how to see this hypertext markup, and to save an edit, see Help:Editing.
This navbox is intended for use at the bottom of the documentation pages of list-generating and -formatting templates. It takes no parameters. The above documentation is transcluded from Template:HTML lists/doc. ( edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox ( create | mirror) and testcases ( create) pages.
Wikipedia:List dos and don'ts – information page summarizing the key points in this guideline. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages – disambiguation pages are lists of homographs —a word or a group of words that share the same written form but have different meanings—with their own page rules and layouts.
Here's a common example: If you see the {{citation needed}} template in the edit box when you're editing an article, it's telling the software to go to the page [[Template:Citation needed]], get the text there (including formatting), and insert that text into the article when the article is displayed for readers.
To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used: {{List of writing systems|state= collapsed }} will show the template collapsed, i.e. hidden apart from its title bar. {{List of writing systems|state= expanded }} will show the template expanded, i.e. fully visible.
t. e. Wikipedia offers several ways to group articles: categories, list articles (including item lists, as well as topical glossary, index, outline, and timeline articles), other lists including embedded lists, and navigation templates (of which article series boxes are one type). The grouping of articles by one method neither requires nor ...