What are templates
MediaWiki templates are essentially pre-formatted pieces of text that can be included in other pages. They are designed to be transcluded (embedded) inside other pages.
- Creation: You create a page in the “Template” namespace. For example, you might create a page called “Template:Welcome” with the contents: "Hello! Welcome to the wiki.".
- Usage: You can then insert this template into any other page using the code { {Welcome}} (without the spaces). When that page is viewed, the text “Hello! Welcome to the wiki.” will appear instead of { {Welcome}}. This is called "transclusion".
- Modification: If you change the content of the template, it will automatically update on all the pages where the template is used. For example, if you change “Template:Welcome” to say “Hi there! Welcome to this wonderful wiki.”, all pages using { {Welcome}} will now display the new message.
Templates that can be used
Click on the different templates to view them and see the available variables.
Those templates can be used to present different types of ISSS Wiki users. Depending of the user, use the corresponding template.
Describes conferences or events about ISSS.
With those templates, you can create pages about books and their chapters.
Describes an article, can be used to describes any kind of papers, reviews, news...
Describes a software.