[Mediawiki-l] Templates - not understanding a concept

[Jamie Bliss]

Technically speaking, you could do it. However, it would be awkward.

In FIRSTwiki (www.firstwiki.org), each of the teams have a page (eg,
[[FIRSTwiki:1]][[FIRSTwiki:1238]] [[FIRSTwiki:1227]]). Most of the
pages are the same, but a few early ones don't. We could use a
template to handle this, but it would be difficult to manage and edit.
(I suggested using one for the table, since that is a better
canidate).

So, basically, yes you could, but you may not want to.

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:22:06 -0700, Craig Hartel <craig at nuclearmoose.com> wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> I have a question about templates. I understand that they are excellent for
> building things that one might wish to repeat on many pages, so having the
> template saves a lot of extra work. Not only that, if you need to update the
> content, you need only update the template, and the changes show up everywhere.
> That part I get, but here is what I'm wondering:
> 
> If I had a page structure that I wanted people to use, would that be
> appropriately done with a template? For example, if I had a few sections, like
> "Description", "Requirements", "Download" etc., would it make sense to build a
> template with those pre-built as section headings? Could I then create custom
> stubs and include them in the template? The custom stub would be like "Add the
> product description here, blah, blah, blah."
> 
> I have this in mind because there will be a lot of pages that we want to look
> exactly alike, save for the actual content. How could I set this up so that they
> use the template to start a new page from scratch?
> 
> Hmm...lots of questions in this one. Thank you in advance for your assistance in
> clarifying my understanding of templates.
> 
> Craig Hartel
> http://codex.wordpress.org/
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