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I'm working straight in Mediawiki.

I'm having trouble with templates. Is there a way to work from a template without editing the template itself. For example, if I create "template:how-tos" and then create a new page and base it off of that template, why is that whenever I edit something in the new page it changes the actual template, as well?

Hello! A good introduction in templates you can find here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates

And here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Templates

Otherwise i don't know, what you want to do exactly :)