Difference between revisions of "Template:Wikipedia"

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<div style="width: 180px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border-color: #eeeeee #000000 #000000 #eeeeee; background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: 8px 8px 8px 8px; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px; float: right;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}} {{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}}] has an article at Wikipedia.</div>
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<includeonly><div style="width: 180px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border-color: #eeeeee #000000 #000000 #eeeeee; background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: 8px 8px 8px 8px; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px; float: right;"><span class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}} {{{2|{{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}}]</span> has an article at Wikipedia.</div></includeonly>
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<noinclude>Use this template to link to an article at Wikipedia. There shouldn't be much overlap, but if there is, use this template.
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Remember to use an underscore ('''_''') instead of a space, as spaces break MediaWiki links (why couldn't they just pipe them??)
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Um, basically, the use of the template is as follows: Adding {{tl|Wikipedia}} creates a link to an article with the same name at Wikipedia with the link caption being the page's name. Adding {{tl2|Wikipedia|Article_Name}} produces a link to Article_Name with the link caption Article_Name (as MediaWiki hates spaces). Adding a second parameter, an article caption {{tl3|Wikipedia|Article_Name|Article name}} produces a link to Article_Name with a caption of Article name. The caption can be anything you want, for example {{tl3|Wikipedia|YTMND|The best site ever}} produces
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{{Wikipedia|YTMND|The best site ever}}
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Enjoy!
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Revision as of 09:41, June 2, 2006


Use this template to link to an article at Wikipedia. There shouldn't be much overlap, but if there is, use this template.


Remember to use an underscore (_) instead of a space, as spaces break MediaWiki links (why couldn't they just pipe them??)

Um, basically, the use of the template is as follows: Adding {{Wikipedia}} creates a link to an article with the same name at Wikipedia with the link caption being the page's name. Adding Template:Tl2 produces a link to Article_Name with the link caption Article_Name (as MediaWiki hates spaces). Adding a second parameter, an article caption Template:Tl3 produces a link to Article_Name with a caption of Article name. The caption can be anything you want, for example Template:Tl3 produces

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Infatuated with facts? Wikipedia has an article about The best site ever. Go learn something.


Enjoy!