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Sidebar listing language templates Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox ( create | mirror ) and testcases ( create ) pages. Subpages of this template .
This template is used in MediaWiki:Statistics-footer. Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Wikipedia user interface. To avoid major disruption, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage .
This template is to be placed in template documentation of user languages. It is intended primarily for userboxes (such as {{User en-ca-1}}), and it should not be placed on mainspace articles. It is written as (example for English): {{Languages|English|en}} You write only English (not language: the template writes that by itself).
[[Category:Language templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Language templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.
Wikipedia:Navigation templates, templates that link between multiple articles belonging to the same topic; Wikipedia:List of infoboxes for infoboxes, which are small panels that summarize key features of the page's subject. Wikipedia:Categorization for templates used for categories; Wikipedia:Citation templates for templates used to format ...
This page includes a listing of policies and guidelines for English Wikipedia. Policy and guideline pages describe Wikipedia's principles and best-agreed practices. Policies are standards that all users should normally follow, while guidelines are meant to be best practices for following those standards in specific contexts.
Templates are a very powerful feature of MediaWiki, but can be confusing to new users and even experienced users can have difficulty making sense of the more complex ones. Templates should therefore be accompanied by documentation to improve usability. Template documentation should explain what a template does and how to use it.
Policies have wide acceptance among editors and describe standards all users should normally follow. All policy pages are in Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines and Category:Wikipedia policies. For summaries of key policies, see List of policies. Guidelines are sets of best practices supported by consensus. Editors should attempt to ...