Math Wiki:Templates

Templates are reusable portions of text and/or wiki markup that can be "included" in other pages by using the "double-braces" wiki syntax:

{{Name of template}}

The name of the template can have spaces (you don't have to replace them by _underscores_); the first letter is case insensitive (it can be capital or lower-case), but subsequent letters are case sensitive.

The content of the template is stored in the same-named page in the Template: namespace, which would be linked to using the following "double-square-brackets" syntax:

[[Template:Name of template]]

The two forms differ in that the former results in the substitution (or "transclusion") of the contents of the template page at that point in the current page (where {{...}} appears), whereas the latter simply links to the page.

See Wikipedia:Template namespace for more background information on templates.

Wiki markup for templates

A concrete example:

• [[Template:Unsigned]] results in the link:

  Template:Unsigned

• {{Unsigned}} — or, equivalently, {{unsigned}} — results in the contents of the "Unsigned" template being inserted into the current page:

  —The preceding unsigned comment was made by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]] • [[w:User:{{{1}}}|central wikia]]).

On the other hand:

• [[Unsigned]] links to the "article" Unsigned, which doesn't actually exist.

Note that [[Unsigned]] and {{Unsigned}} have nothing to do with each other.

See Help:Template at Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki for more (much, much more) information.

Lists of templates

The following tables list the templates that are currently in use on this wikia, including brief descriptions and examples of usage.

See also the alphabetical list of templates and Category:Templates.

Maintenance templates

• {{Delete}}

Stub templates

• {{Stub}}

Informational templates

• {{Anonuser}}
• {{Catredir}}
• {{Sandbox header}}
• {{Template sandbox header}}
• {{To forum index}}
• {{Unsigned}}

Interwiki templates

• {{Wikipedia}}

Wikicode templates

• {{L}}
• {{Ll}}
• {{Llp}}
• {{Lp}}
• {{T}}
• {{Tl}}

Other templates

• {{Def}}
• {{If}}
• {{Sandbox}}
• {{Sudoku grid}}