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The content from a template titled Template:foo can be added into a Wikipedia page by editing a page and typing {{foo}} into it. When then viewing the page, {{foo}} is automatically replaced by the content of the page "Template:foo". If the page "Template:foo" is later altered, all the pages with {{foo}} in them will change automatically.
Once you save a red link there, and create the page, the link will turn blue and will be accessible anytime you visit it. Go to your user or user talk page (both permanently linked at the top of any Wikipedia page); Surround the page title you want to create in doubled brackets, e.g., [[Proposed Title]]; Click the Publish changes button;
The {} template uses HTML, and will size-match a serif font, and will also prevent line-wrap. All templates are sensitive to the = sign, so remember to replace = with {} in template input, or start the input with 1=. Use wiki markup '' and ''' inside the {} template, as well as other HTML entities.
This template internally uses mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight, which is considered an 'expensive parser function' (see WP:EXPENSIVE). If used on a page which uses more than 500 expensive parser functions, the output of subsequent uses of this template will be presented using <code>...</code> formatting (without any syntax highlighting) instead.
This template should always be substituted by prefixing "subst:" inside the template code. Thus use {{subst:Creation|user/u or ip/anon}} rather than {{Creation|u/user or ip/anon}}. This template presumes that its use will be for a first response to an unindented post, and thus automatically indents one colon for all paragraphs. If you require ...
A template is a Wikipedia page whose purpose is to be transcluded or substituted in another page. Templates are usually in the template namespace, but don't have to be. Pages can transclude or substitute any page, not just templates; what makes a page a template is the page's purpose. Calling a template means transcluding or substituting one. A ...
Before doing changes to a template it can be good to first copy the template code to a sandbox and run some testcases, since the template might be visible on thousands or even millions of pages. If you create subpages named exactly " /sandbox " and " /testcases " to a template then the green {{documentation}} box on the template auto-detects ...
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