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The language inside templates is the same language as regular wiki markup, but template writers tend to use the more complex available functions such as #if: statements. See Wikipedia's Help:Template and Wikimedia's mw:Help:Template , including all of "advanced functioning" help pages listed toward the bottom of that page .
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The following help topics deal with templates: m:Help:Template; m:Help:Advanced templates; This help topic deals with table design (since most templates use tables, this may be useful): Help:Table; And finally: Help:Conditional expressions
(For example, the script with the code <code>Semap</code> has the name <code>"flag semaphore"</code>, which should remain lowercase when used as part of the category name [[:Category:Translingual letters in flag semaphore]] but should be capitalized in [[:Category:Flag semaphore templates]].)
The remainder of the page source is enclosed between <noinclude> tags, so it shows up when you display the template page itself but not when you display a page that calls the template. To transclude Template:TM onto another page (i.e., to use it on another page), type {} into the source of that page (the target page) and click Show preview.
Most templates allow authors to override the default text in this way, some require text put after the template call and some also need a vertical bar in between: {{table cell template}} text or {{table cell template}} | text. This information, the colors and default texts are found in the table below.
The various adjustments that may need to be made to the table's content, such as using special {} or {} templates to impose an alternate sort order, may also create excessive complication in the table coding which can make it much harder to edit with any new information. If there's a column for individual people's names, for example, then ...
We will be writing a user script by modifying your common.js. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will write a simple version of the Quick wikify module, which adds the {{Wikify}} maintenance template to the top of an article when you click a link called "Wikify" in the "More" menu.