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Once you have made the template—for example Template:foo—you can add {{foo}} to the pages that you want to use it on. Every page using this template uses the same boilerplate text each time that a user visits it. When the template is updated, all pages containing the template tag are automatically updated.
Wikipedia:Template index/Links § External links and Category:External link templates – templates for links to external sites. Wikipedia:Navigation template and Category:Navigational boxes – guidance essay and list. Wikipedia:Inline templates linking country articles – templates that render a flag icon and a wikilink to a country's ...
Spreadsheet & VE. Example: You may have a sandbox or spreadsheet of state data using state abbreviations. Open this section for editing via the visual editor (VE). Delete the D.C. row if necessary, but do not save the changes. Select and copy (Ctrl+C) the full state names. You can usually paste them directly into the sandbox or spreadsheet over ...
Upload PDF to a free online PDF-to-Excel site. For example; here. Download the Excel file. Open it in freeware LibreOffice Calc or another spreadsheet program. If you just want one table from a long Excel page, you can select that table from the Calc page. Then copy the table to a new page in Calc. Edit and move columns and rows in Calc.
An entry missing in the Template column indicates that the database may not have been updated and a WP:NULL edit is needed. Note that there is a sorting bug in the list and some templates are listed twice.
A redirect of a template functions as an alias. For example, Template:Tsh redirects to Template:Template shortcut, so you can code {{tsh|foo}} instead of {{Template shortcut|foo}}. It is good to prepare template aliases for variations in whitespace and capitalization. For example, there is a template called {{See Wiktionary}}.
For example, suppose the name of your new WikiProject is Foo. The first step is to create the page "Wikipedia:WikiProject Foo", and substitute this template in it by typing this text: {{subst:WikiProject|Foo}}. After saving, this code will be replaced by a skeleton for a WikiProject page which you have to adapt to the needs of your project.