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Templating for Dummies (i.e. me)

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Audabee (talkcontribs)

I'm sorry if these are dumb questions, but I just don't get Templates.

I am creating a Wiki about a sporting organisation. For the people (players, officials etc) I would like to include Infoboxes (similar to Wikipedia's Field Hockey Player).

e.g. I've created a Template called Person. I use the code format: {{subst:Name}} to include the Template blank info into my Page for the editors to fill in...at least, I think how it's supposed to work. Is that how it works?

But, that just puts the unformatted text on my page. How do I style it up?

I tried importing pages & templates via XML into my wiki, but it doesn't seem to bring the styles.

I'm afraid my editors have even less computer experience than me, so I need to make the system as simple as possible for them.

AhmadF.Cheema (talkcontribs)
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