Editing Help/Templates (section)

== Basic usage == <!--T:261-->
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<translate><!--T:3--> Templates are standard wiki pages whose content is designed to be '''[[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Transclusion</tvar>|transcluded]]''' (embedded) inside other pages.</translate>
<translate><!--T:468--> Templates follow a convention that the name is prefixed with "<tvar name=4><code>Template:</code></tvar>", assigning it to the [[<tvar name=2>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Namespaces</tvar>|template namespace]]; besides this, you can [[<tvar name=3>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Starting a new page</tvar>|create them like any other wiki page]].</translate>

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To transclude a template, you use double opening & closing curly brackets </nowiki></code></tvar>|template name}}.

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The simplest use of templates is as follows: Create a page called <tvar name=1><code>Template:Welcome</code></tvar> with the content below:
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 <translate><!--T:5--> Hello! Welcome to the wiki.</translate>

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You have created your first template! Now, insert the code below in a new page:
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 <nowiki></nowiki>

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When the new page is viewed, the text "Hello! Welcome to the wiki." will appear instead of <tvar name=1><code><nowiki></nowiki></code></tvar>. The template content is '''transcluded''' into the other page, i.e., it is integrated in the page.

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You can then insert <tvar name=1><code><nowiki></nowiki></code></tvar> at any point of any page where you wish to welcome someone. Suppose it is used in 100 pages. If you then change the template contents to:
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 <translate><!--T:10--> Hi there! Welcome to this wonderful wiki.</translate>

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And revisit any of the 100 pages where the template was used, you'll see the new text instead of the original one. In this way, you have changed the content of 100 pages without editing them, because the template is transcluded into these pages.

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This is the basic mechanism. There are several additional features of transclusion that enrich this mechanism and make templates very useful.
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