Templates are a system for streamlining the data entry and display formatting of article content.
Unfortunately, despite (old) efforts like '[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_bits_and_pieces Global Bits and Pieces]' or [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global-Wiki Global Wiki], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_templates Global Templates], '''MediaWiki software does not come with bundled templates'''. There is no 'package' or 'Starter Kit' of useful templates. Each wiki is left to create their own. Although you ''could'' export and import templates from say mediawiki.org, you would end up with a huge amount of Lua modules and template code that would be overkill for any regular use case. Global Templates was mentioned in the 2020 Community Wishlist under 'miscellaneous' -> 'translate templates' <ref>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Miscellaneous/Templates_translation</ref> but it's not an exact match, and likely won't be adopted anyway. Still, there are at least a couple 'Phabricator' issues related to Templates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121470 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243150
=== Types and Examples ===
==== Static Templates ====
Templates can also be used to include static content on a page (kind of like a keyword macro). This is useful when you want to mark a bunch of pages with some common message content, e.g. 'obsolete', '[[:Template:stub|stub]]', 'needs attention' etc.; or perhaps you have a collection of articles that you want to apply a common resource box or navigation to.
=== Using Templates ===
# (optional) create a new page
=== Available Templates ===
See all templates in the [[Special:Prefixindex|prefix index]] (choose the 'Template' namespace in the select box, then press 'Go')
=== Debugging Templates ===
You can add <code>action=raw&templates=expand</code> to the end of a page URL to see the raw wikitext as
=== See also ===
=== Django ===
Uses the Django Template system
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