WikiIslam:Templates: Difference between revisions

Just like a regular page, links to a template page (like we have made on this page) can be made using square brackets, for example <nowiki>[[</nowiki>Template:Stub]] produces: [[Template:Stub]]

Templates that accept variables are a great way to let the software take care of formatting issues. For example if you're putting in a reference to a website, you can use the [[Template:Cite web|Cite web]] template. Just enter the URL, URL Title, author, publisher and archive URL and it will know how to format the output. So for example you wont have to worry about whether the author is mentioned first in that reference.

Here are some templates that can be used on the website.

* [[Template:Stub]] - for short articles that need expansion

* [[Template:Underconstruction]] - page under construction

* [[Template:Pagetop]] - makes a link to the top of a page

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Click on a new member's talk page and it will prompt you for creating a new page. Place this in the edit box and save the page:

'''Documentation''': As on Wikipedia, documentation for templates can be written on the page: ''Template:My template/doc'', if the code ''<nowiki>{{</nowiki>Documentation}}'' has been included in the template.

* [[Template:Qif|Qif]]: A template which allows you to make IF statements, similar to how they're used in programming languages.

* [[Template:Loop]] - From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Loop Wikipedia], "This template is used to produce a simple loop that can repeat up to 150 times. It is not a real loop; it works by conditionally repeating the string."

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Anatomy_of_a_template Wikipedia:Anatomy of a template]

* {{plainlink|url={{SERVER}}/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=10 Full list of all templates}} (system generated; Note that many templates are used for very specific group of articles and some templates have more complex uses)

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