Other than the content, the main appearance difference is because the CSS is missing. The base template uses the geography and infobox classes. The CSS which goes with those can be found from MediaWiki:Common.css. Once you change your own MediaWiki:Common.css page, be sure to force your browser to do a full reload so it picks up the new CSS file (ctrl-F5 in IE, ctrl-shift-r in Firefox).

You'll also want to be aware of MediaWiki:Monobook.css.

..Kev

On 9/22/06, Charlie McElfresh cwmcelfresh@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I'm (still) trying to figure out how templates work. I put a wikipedia page onto my site, and it looks like this:

http://www.pictureguides.com/edit/index.php/New_York_City

Wikipedia's looks like this, though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City

And I can't figure out why. Help appreciated.

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