[Mediawiki-l] Templates - not understanding a concept

Tue Sep 14 22:22:06 UTC 2004

Hello, all.

I have a question about templates. I understand that they are excellent for 
building things that one might wish to repeat on many pages, so having the 
template saves a lot of extra work. Not only that, if you need to update the 
content, you need only update the template, and the changes show up everywhere. 
That part I get, but here is what I'm wondering:

If I had a page structure that I wanted people to use, would that be 
appropriately done with a template? For example, if I had a few sections, like 
"Description", "Requirements", "Download" etc., would it make sense to build a 
template with those pre-built as section headings? Could I then create custom 
stubs and include them in the template? The custom stub would be like "Add the 
product description here, blah, blah, blah."

I have this in mind because there will be a lot of pages that we want to look 
exactly alike, save for the actual content. How could I set this up so that they 
use the template to start a new page from scratch?

Hmm...lots of questions in this one. Thank you in advance for your assistance in 
clarifying my understanding of templates.

Craig Hartel
http://codex.wordpress.org/
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