Documentation/Style guide/templates

Overview edit

Templates are wiki pages whose content can be embedded in other pages. They allow for easy translations and help maintain consistency among related documents. This page describes some templates for formatting text.

Also see Help:Templates. There is also a similar list for wikitech.wikimedia.org.

Templates edit

Template

Example syntax

Example output

Hatnote

{{hatnote|Here is my note.}}

Caution

{{Caution}} Here is my caution 1.

{{Caution|Here is my caution 2.}}

Caution: Here is my caution 1.

Caution:

Here is my caution 2.

Warning

{{warning}} Here is my warning 1.

{{warning|Here is my warning 2.}}

Warning: Here is my warning 1.

Warning:

Here is my warning 2.

Todo

{{Todo|Here is my todo.}}

TODO: Here is my todo.

Fixtext

{{Fixtext|Here is my fixtext.}}

FIX: Here is my fixtext.

Note

{{note|Note 1}}

{{note|Note 2|reminder}}

{{note|Note 3|error}}

{{note}} Loose test

Note 1

Note 2

Note 3

Note: Loose test

Tip

{{Tip|Here is my tip.}}

Here is my tip.

Notice

{{Notice|Here is my notice.}}

Main

{{Main|test|sandbox|w:foo}}

Talkquote

{{talkquote|foo bar bang|example}}

foo bar bang
— User:example

Smaller

Body text {{Smaller|(note with smaller text)}}

Body text (note with smaller text)

Status

{{status}}

{{status|done}}

{{status|on hold}}

{{status|not done}}

Status: In progress

Status: Done

Status: On hold

Status: Not done

Doing

{{Doing}}

In progress

Not done

{{Not done}}

Not done

Done

{{Done}}

Done

Resolved

{{Resolved}}

Resolved

Fixme

{{Fixme}}

Historical

{{Historical}}

Outdated (Alias: Update)

{{Outdated}}

Alias: {{Update}}

Archived extension

{{Archived extension}}

Soft redirect

{{Soft redirect}}

[[:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]
This page is a soft redirect.

Draft

{{Draft}}

DoNotTranslate

{{DoNotTranslate}}

Last updated

{{Last updated}}

Last updated: 2024-04-08 by TBurmeister (WMF)

Doc-links

{{Doc-links|Link to an example doc}}

{{Doc-links|Link to a doc template|template}}

Link to example doc

Link to a doc template

TabbedWindow

{{TabbedWindowBegin}}

...

{{TabbedWindowEnd}}

Python edit

code

JavaScript edit

code