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This formats an example wikilink to show how it would be entered in wiki markup. The first parameter is the link destination. E.g. {{elc|Cookie}} renders as [[Cookie]], the wiki markup for the wikilink Cookie.
A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input. Templates sometimes use MediaWiki parser functions, nicknamed "magic words", a simple scripting language. Template pages are found in the template ...
This template can take any number of unnamed parameters as parameters accompanying the template link (or name); see Examples below. Examples Use the displayed value in the code column, not the underlying source code.
This template can take any number of unnamed parameters as parameters accompanying the template link (or name); see Examples below. Examples Use the displayed value in the code column, not the underlying source code.
This template can take any number of unnamed parameters as parameters accompanying the template link (or name); see Examples below. Examples Use the displayed value in the code column, not the underlying source code.
In some cases, it may be desirable to add clickable annotations to an image. The templates Template:Annotated image and Template:Annotated image 4 exist for this purpose. These templates allow wikitext (e.g., regular text, wikilinks, allowed HTML code, references, and other templates) to be included on the image itself. They may also be used to ...
The image acts as a hypertext link to the specified page. Do not enclose the page name in square brackets. If Page is a URL, the image acts as an external link; otherwise it links to the named Wikipedia page. Image maps offer more possibilities. [[File:Example.png| link=Name of page |alt=Example alt text]]
(There is a related set of templates for some free content resources that are not run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Rather than creating a sidebar link, they create text suitable for using as a bulleted entry in an "External links" section. A list of such templates can be found at Wikipedia:List of templates linking to other free content projects.)