Help:Templates

Templates are what Bendict's entries are mainly made of. For this reason, any user interested in becoming an editor must master (or at least know) wikitext to understand how they work within the wiki.

What are templates?
In wiki jargon, a template is a code snippet used to show its content within another page in the same wiki. Almost every template includes parameters, into which editors can put the information more suitable for the template to display correctly, according to the context. However, there are templates without parameters too, used to display invariable content. See the External links and See also sections to learn more.

Use of templates in Bendict
As said before, templates play a fundamental rol within Bendict. They are what gives the wiki its main layout. Since the content and design of the entries can become repetitive, we help ourselves with the templates for that. Templates are also used on pages outside of the main namespace, and are mostly meant to save time and space in the wiki code to do something.