Administrator of templates

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Administrator of Templates

For the assistant to insert templates see: Templates

Assistant to store and manage templates taken from the Wikipedia Template namespace..

The Administrator of templates is a window where you can add, document, delete or update templates you may use in the pages you are editing. A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. Templates usually contain repetitive material that might need to show up on any number of articles or pages. They are commonly used for boilerplate messages, standard warnings or notices, infoboxes, navigational boxes and similar purposes.

There are hundreds of templates, perhaps too much, some of them are very much alike, and the editors are always developing new templates and improving the existing ones. The assistant contains a repository of many of the most commonly used templates, so you can make use of them. But, through this window you can add to the database any other template of your particular interest you may have found in Wikipedia. Do not forget to include the corresponding documentation in the "Description" textbox. You can also delete templates (one at a time), but be aware that the deleted templates are not recoverable.

This application starts with more than 200 of the most commonly used templates registered in English Wikipedia.

Types of templates

The assistant distributes the templates in groups according to their function. This distribution does not correspond with any Wikipedia guideline. It is only a resource of this assistant to help users to find quickly the most suitable template for their purposes. The groups are the following:

· Calculation: Templates to make date or numeric calculations

· Citations or references: Templates to insert citations in pages of articles

· Columns: Templates to create columns of text

· Conversion of units: Templates to convert measurements from one unit to another.

· Disambiguation: Templates used in disambiguation pages

· Flags of nations: Templates to display a small flag icon next to a wikilinked country name

· Format: Templates to format text.

· Geographical coordinates: Templates to handle geographical coordinates.

· Graphic charts: Templates to produce graphic charts

· Images: Templates to show images in Wikipedia pages.

· Infoboxes: Templates to summarize information in Wikipedia articles.

· Links: Templates to make links to internal or external pages

· Lists: Templates to create lists.

· Navigation: Templates to show links to make navigation among pages easier.

· Redirection: Templates to redirect the search to other pages

· Strings layout: Templates to manipulate strings.

· Table of contents: Templates which modify the appearance of the table of contents

· Tables: Templates to insert tables in Wikipedia pages

· User pages: Templates to be used exclusively in user pages.

· Warnings to the readers: Templates to show information and warnings to readers..

· Clues to do some things These are NOT templates but interesting clues about templates and edition.

How to add a template to the database

To add a new template to the database you should do the following:

1. Select the group of templates (or create a new one if necessary)

2. Click on the "New record" button at the bottom of the window.

3. Enter the template title

4. Paste the template into the "Template" textbox.

5. Enter the documentation of the template into the "Description" textbox. You can use formatted text in this textbox to emphasize the requiring aspects.

6. Click on "Save" button at the bottom of the window.

How to move a template to other group

You can move an existing template from one group to another. To do this, select the template and click on the dropdown list of template groups. Select the destination group and click on "Save" button ad the bottom of the window.

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