[Mediawiki-l] Advice on templating

[Rob Sharp]

Morning all,

I'm seeking a little advice on the use of Templates.

I'm setting up an internal wiki at my company , the purpose of which 
is to allow various people to document our routines and program workflows.

I'd like to standardise the layout of this documentation with regards 
to the basic information that needs entering. I thought I could 
provide a layout framework via a template, give people the basic 
information on how to include the template and they could then fill in 
the included template.

Is there any way of setting up a template so that once included it's 
contents are editable on the calling page? Substitution achieves this, 
but then doesn't actually reflect that the page is using the template 
and so doesn't pick up any further changes to that template.

I could use parameters in the template, but there could be a lot of 
information and this might be a bit cumbersome.

Do I have any other options for achieving this?

Please let me know if what I'm asking for isn't clear.

Rob