Help:Templates
A template is a Wikidata page created to be included in other pages. Templates usually contain repetitive material that might need to show up on a larger number of articles or pages.
The most common method of inclusion is called transclusion, where the wikitext of the target page contains a reference to the template, using the {{Template name}} syntax.
This page provide a comprehensive guide to explore and discover templates in Wikidata.
Link templates[edit]
Some templates provides an easy way to link to some kind of things in Wikidata.
| Concept | Template | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Items | {{Q}} |
{{Q|5}} → human (Q5)
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| Properties | {{P}} |
{{P|31}} → instance of (P31)
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| Lexemes | {{L}} |
{{L|1}} → ama/𒂼 (L1)
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| Statements | {{Statement}} |
{{Statement|Q42|P31|Q5}} → Douglas Adams (Q42)instance of (P31)human (Q5)
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| WikiProject | {{Project}} |
{{Project|Templates}} → WikiProject Templates
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| Data types | {{Datatype}} |
{{Datatype|geo-shape}} → Geographic shape
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Sidenote: MediaWiki templates on this wiki can be linked with {{Template}}.
Notification templates[edit]
Some templates are useful to create notifications. For instance, {{Ping}} provides notifications for users and {{Ping project}} notify participants to a WikiProject.
Voting templates[edit]
Voting templates are useful to vote in a discussion. One can use {{Support}} or {{Oppose}}.
Documentation templates[edit]
Documentation templates are used for documentation. {{Property documentation}} provides documentation for properties and {{Item documentation}} provides documentation for items.
There are also class specific templates such as {{TP given name}}, {{TP family name}}, {{TP administrative area}},{{TP award}},{{TP organization}}.
SPARQL templates[edit]
SPARQL templates provides a way to insert SPARQL queries in Wikidata.
{{SPARQL}}, {{SPARQL2}}, {{SPARQL Inline}} and {{SPARQL Box}} provide different layout solutions.
{{Query page}} provides a template to write a query in a dedicated subpage.
For simple queries that only consist of some (subject, predicate, object) triple, you can use {{Quickquery}}.
Layout templates[edit]
{{Colorbar}} provide a graphical element which can be displayed in a page.
Graphic templates[edit]
{{Graph:Lines}}shows a line graph.
Internationalisation templates[edit]
{{LangSwitch}} provides a solution to multilingual text in a page.
Templates for user pages[edit]
{{User info}}
See also[edit]
- See Category:Templates to discover all 259 templates.