These steps describe the "theoretical" way to change the template - in practice the template on Wikipedia is "permanently protected from editing, as it is a heavily used or visible template" and it can only be edited by an administrator. So you can't do step 6 yourself, you have to ask an administrator to do it.
But you need to discuss your proposed changes first on the talk page here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Taxobox and if there is consensus an administrator will make the actual modifications.
Gu
Quoting Alessandra alessandra.bilardi@gmail.com:
well, the problem is that I can not modify original template, so I don't understand who I sent code to modify original template..
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:07 AM, zehetner@molgen.mpg.de wrote:
Hi,
I think step 6 means that AFTER you have made successfully changes to your
test
Taxbox template in your own useraccount in the User: namespace you copy the
text
of the modified template back to the official template in the Template
namespace
to make the new modified version available for the whole Wikipedia. So step 6 is basically the reverse of step 1.
Cheers, Gu
Quoting Alessandra alessandra.bilardi@gmail.com:
Hi all,
I would like add into taxobox template a space about biological database because I would like add into each organism wiki page this information.. when there are. My goal is add biological database about Genome project, genome browser and genome annotation for each organism that has got a wikipedia page. In particular, I would like add link about NCBI genome project number and general information about official genome browser and genome annotation data.
I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Taxobox and I create my copy into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bilardi/taxobox I test new piece with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bilardi/taxoboxtest
and I follow step about 'Making changes' paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Taxobox until six point: 6. Copy the whole text of User:YOUR USERNAME/taxobox back to {{Template:Taxobox}}
well, I don't understand how can I go on..
can you help me about?
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