Sorry, I hit the wrong button!
2008/9/3 Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com>om>:
METHOD 2
Go to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates> and in
the "Input text:" box, put an example of the template call as you
would like to use it.
e.g. "{{see also|test}}"
If you just put "{{see also}}" it will expand to an error message!
Probably you will want to do this but also look at the source of the
template to try and get a feel for how it worked.
Note: if you want your templates to look the same as Wikipedia's, you
will almost certainly need to add some CSS to your wiki. In this
example with [[template:see also]], it has "<span class="boilerplate
seealso">", so I need to find the definitions for boilerplate and
seealso.
The splace to look are
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Monobook.css (Monobook is the
default skin)
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Catalogue_of_CSS_classes
(looks very useful but is probably out of date)
...Having said that, I just had a look and I couldn't find boilerplate
or seealso, so... I give up :) Maybe they are relics that are now
having no effect.
The Firefox add-on Firebug can be extremely useful in locating CSS definitions.
Hope this helps,
Brianna
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