Thread:Templates? (1)

Hi Ravi,

You left a note on my talk page some time back about templates. Were your questions answered by others? I use templates mostly to reuse short pieces of information in many places. To make a template just make a new wikipage with "template:" before the rest of the file name. Then you can reuse that content by adding the template name to a wiki page in this format:. I hope this helps or perhaps you have advanced to the point that this is old news! The example in the second to last sentence is used to present insect information and looks like this when used on a page:. The original template is here: Template:Chironomidae and I use it on 12 different pages so far. So just one word can call up a paragraph and a photograph (or more). Also, if I edit the template to fix a mistake, the mistake is fixed in every page where the template is used. Cheersdmccabe 02:39, 26 February 2012 (UTC)