Wikipedia:Find templates
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The following lists ways of hunting or finding templates of Wikipedia markup-language (or markup macros)[1] by searching for related words.
In general, any template of the form {{xyzz}} is stored under page name "Template:Xyzz".
The introduction to templates is: Help:Template.
Search by related words or phrases
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English Wikipedia has an extensive word-search index of all templates, to allow a wiki-search, similar to googling (as with Google Search, Yahoo! Search, Bing.com, Dogpile.com, etc.). For example, to search for the word "string" within any templates (or template names):
- Search templates for "string" – matches string handling, stringed instruments, string theory, etc.
After an initial search, then the search word(s) can be changed to re-run the search, with different words.
Groups of related templates
[edit]- String handling: {{Strlen quick}}, {{Strfind short}}, or see full list: {{String-handling templates}}
- Flags: {{Flag}}, {{Flagicon}}, {{Flags of Europe}} (articles), or list index of names (more than 130): prefixindex "flag...".
- Word formatting: {{Nowrap}}, {{Word-stub}}, or list of names with prefixindex "word...".
- Information-box templates (infoboxes): {{Infobox}}, {{Infobox settlement}}, {{Infobox musician}}, {{Infobox musician awards}}, or list names of prefixindex "infobox..." (over 10,100 templates).
- Navigation templates (navboxes): {{Navbox}}, {{Year nav}} (for each year article), {{Navbox musical artist}}, or names with prefixindex "navbox...".
- Mapping templates: {{Location map}}, {{Location map many}}, or names with prefixindex "map..." or with prefixindex "location...".
- Color templates (colour/hue): {{Color}}, {{Grey}}, {{Color box}} (see: Web colors), or names with prefixindex "color..." (20 templates).
- WP:Disambiguation templates: {{Disambig}}, {{Human name disambiguation|name=Last, First}}, {{Geodis}}, {{Roaddis}}, {{Schooldis}}
Lists and categories
[edit]- Wikipedia:Template index — curated lists of most used templates
- Wikipedia:List of infoboxes
- Category:Wikipedia templates — root category for all templates used on English Wikipedia
See also
[edit]- Help:Template – introduction to templates
- Help:Calculation – introduction to calculations using function #expr
- WP:Advanced template coding – advanced techniques of writing markup
- Help:Magic – list of magic-word functions for markup
- WP:Parser function – list of general MediaWiki parser functions
- WP:Icons – some lists linking hundreds of icon-symbol images
- WP:Advanced article editing
- WP:Advanced footnote formatting
- WP:Advanced table formatting
- WP:Advanced text formatting
- WP:Thinking outside the infobox
- WP:Overlink crisis
- WP:Authors of Wikipedia
- WP:Accepting other users
- WP:Avoiding difficult users
- WP:Avoiding Wikipedia quirks
- WP:No angry mastodons just madmen
- WP:Pruning article revisions
- WP:Alert
- WP:Blanking sections violates many policies
- WP:Add wikilinked sections to balance NPOV
- WP:About translating German Wikipedia
- WP:Pruning article revisions
- WP:No consensus
- WP:Wikifinagling
- WP:Wikifogging
- WP:Avoiding MediaWiki expansion depth limit
- WP:98 percent table width anomaly
- WP:Wikimedia Foundation error
- WP:Why Johnny can't wiki-read
- WP:Most read articles in 2008
- WP:Most read articles in 2009
- WP:Most read articles in 2010