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Transclusion

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Executive Summary

Transclusion in MediaWiki is the same as an 'include' in PHP programming, or an entity in XML, or a remote server image in an HTML page.

If you have a long page, you may want to break up the topic into sub-topics and then transclude the smaller articles into the super article.

Definition

Syntax

Tranclusion syntax is the same as Templates syntax (i.e. double curly braces: {{:Article Name}} Note: since templates have their own 'template' namespace while regular articles are in the default namespace and thus use a preceding colon

See Also

The wikipedia manual of style talks about how to deal with wp:Wikipedia:Article size The wp:Wikipedia:Summary style article goes into more detail and there are related articles in the style guide also.