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Span tags were enabled in MediaWiki on December 23, 2004. Polls were held in May and August 2004 on whether the English Wikipedia should enable them. The were equally split between supporting and opposing the addition of these tags. In December, the earlier objections that this would be a semantically void element were deemed to be no longer ...
Our "Cheatsheet" is a good starting point for learning basic Wikipedia formatting.A more complete guide is here.. You can take some formatting tips from the standard way Wikipedia articles are laid out.
If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add [[Category:Book templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page.
The MediaWiki software, which drives Wikipedia, allows the use of a subset of HTML 5 elements, or tags and their attributes, for presentation formatting. [1] However, most HTML functionality can be replicated using equivalent wiki markup or templates.
This template's initial visibility currently defaults to autocollapse, meaning that if there is another collapsible item on the page (a navbox, sidebar, or table with the collapsible attribute), it is hidden apart from its title bar; if not, it is fully visible. To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used:
The {{definition span}} template may be used when there is text that needs further explanation or clarification. Unlike the template {}, this template attaches explicitly to a portion of text, for example one or more specific sentences, by surrounding the text with the template. This is useful for flagging new terms which have not yet been ...
The list templates explicitly identify lists for readers, ensuring that the structure is understood, rather than relying on visual formatting to imply the presence of a list. See MOS:COLOR and Help:Using colours for information about restrained use of color in tables, to avoid creating accessibility problems for color-blind as well as normal ...
Unlike the template {{citation needed}}, this template attaches explicitly to a portion of text, for example one or more specific sentences, by surrounding the text with the template. This is especially useful for flagging a block of multiple facts or multiple sentences as needing citation, and for singling out a specific fact that is unsourced ...