Hey Maurizio,
On 7/17/07, Maurizio Vitale maurizio.vitale@polymath-solutions.com wrote:
- is this what people use to wrap entire paragraphs potentially with
mediawiki markup? I can see two ways: - one template with a very long argument (like the chess position example) - two templates, one providing the header and one providing the trailer Which is more common?
Depends on your style, I suppose. And on what you need templates for. I'm admin on Memory Alpha (German version), which is a Star Trek wiki, forming an encyclopedia. We're linking to Episodes very often and in order to have those links uniform and standardized, we'll use templates.
-> instead of linking [[TNG]]: ''[[All Good Things...]]'' there is a template named "TNG" which is doing the formating job and also may link to more episodes. Looks like {{TNG|All Good Things...|Encounter at Farpoint}}
That is a very complex template, which in fact doesn't work properly after MediaWiki 1.10. See http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Template:TNG
Another very common use of templates is just to have a message on an article for "text in work", articles which will be deleted or just incomplete articles. Most of the will work without parameter and those messages are much like the template you found before.
A major benefit of using templates is, that you can lookup articles with certain template very quick, to see all articles, which shall be deleted. Besides the benefit to create a graphical intense template just once and changes in a template will change all instances of a certain template.
- is there a collection of useful templates somewhere? I can find
extensions, but not templates.
For more information and a bunch of templates, see * http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Help:Template ** http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Memory_Alpha:Message_templates ** http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Memory_Alpha:Navigational_templates ** http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Memory_Alpha:Sidebar_templates ** http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Memory_Alpha:Meta_templates ** http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Memory_Alpha:Article_templates
Florian