Wikipedia:Find templates

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The following lists ways of hunting or finding templates of Wikipedia markup-language (or markup macros) by searching for related words. Also note that the word "template" has another connotation, mainly used by Wikipedia system admins, as a verb to refer to issuing a canned message to users, based on putting templates on user talk-pages.

In general, any template of the form {{xyzz}} is stored under page name "Template:Xyzz".

Using wiki-search
Search templates for "settlement"
Search templates for "musician"

The introduction to templates is: Help:Template.

Search by related words or phrases

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

• String handling: {{Strlen quick}}, {{Strfind short}}, {{Strloc insert}}, 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}}, {{hndis|name=Last, First}}, {{geodis}}, {{roaddis}}, {{schooldis}}

Lists and categories

• 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

• 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

Notes

[ This essay is just a quick draft, to be expanded later. ]