Wikispooks:Templates

Help:Templates are a sort of macro-language used by Mediawiki to allow efficient re-use of material. This page assumes that you are already familiar with them and gives a quick overview of how they are currently used on WikiSpooks.

Single Issue Templates

Wikispooks has some content-specific templates (i.e. relating to a particular page or couple of pages), mostly of a fairly simple nature - i.e. a badge or a list of links. These are gradually being replaced by SMW-based approaches which have shown themselves easier to maintain and generalise upon, so Single Issue Templates are deprecated as of January 2014 - although they can still be used if available, it is not recommended to create any more. Template:DiscussHere

Semantic Templates

Full article: WikiSpooks:Semantic Templates

Wikispooks uses the Semantic MediaWiki extension to allow integration of machine readable with human readable content. This is done exclusively through so-called 'Semantic Templates' as opposed to those that only handle human readable text, layout information, images etc.

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