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Templates

The description provided at this page is a short summary of the functionality of the templates. For further details on usage, please browse to the linked documentation pages.

Template	Description
{{Anchor\|<ID>}}	Sets an anchor at a page. You can link there with [[PAGENAME#<ID>]].
{{Box\|<TOPIC>\|<TEXT>}}	Places a nice box around the text. Might break when you use additional Wiki syntax within the the <TOPIC> or <TEXT> fields.
{{Delete\|<REASON>}}	Requests the deletion of a page.
{{Ediquette}}	Places an infobox at a users talkpage which gives suggestions to be more thoughtful with the Wikis resources.
{{Footnote\|<TEXT>}}	Saves text for a footnote. Supposed to be used in combination with Template:Footnotes.
{{Footnotes}}	Displays footnotes defined with Template:Footnote.
{{Help}}	Displays a Help Header and Multi-lang bar above the article and can add it to certain categories.
{{HoverText\|<TERM>\|<HOVER>}}	Underlines <TERM> and displays the hovertext specified in <HOVER> as an on-mouse-over effect.
{{Jira\|<ISSUE-ID>}}	Places a link to the specified issue the public issue tracker.
{{Multi-lang}}	Displays a language bar on top of the article which links to translated versions. See also Project:Languages.
{{SLurl\|<REGION>}}	Provides an easy way to create SLURLs.
{{SLURL2\|<SLURL>}}	Displays <SLURL> in a nicer format.
{{Unsigned\|<USERNAME>\|<DATE>}}	Supposed to be used on talkpages, to mark a comment as unsigned and to provide the right signature.
{{User\|<USERNAME>}}	Creates a link to <USERNAME>s profile.
{{User2\|<USERNAME>}}	Only creates a link to <USERNAME>s profile, in case <USERNAME> created a profile page. Otherwise just displays the name as text.

Infos for template creators

All extensions currently installed in the Wiki are listed at Special:Version. The most important ones for template creators might be

Please note that not all parser functions listet there are available in the SL Wiki. #titleparts and #iferror are missing. Furthermore, there are known problems with conditionals and variables. See WEB-896.

Widgets

See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets for general information about widgets. All currently in the SL Wiki available widgets can be found at Special:PrefixIndex/Widget:. You can suggest the implementation of further widgets via the issue tracker.

Videos and Images

Videos

The VideoFlash extension allows to add YouTube and Google Videos (as well as some others). We also got a Blip.tv widget as well as one for YouTube playlists, which is falsly named as Widget:YouTubeChannel.

Images

Images can either be added via the regular MediaWiki syntax (see Mediawiki Help:Images) or via the ImageMap extension. The ImageMap manual from Wikipedia as well as the ImageMap editor tool can be useful. Note that images added via this extension cause a line break which can be avoided by putting it in between <div class="imagemap-inline"></div>.

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+== Templates ==
 The description provided at this page is a short summary of the functionality of the templates. For further details on usage, please browse to the linked documentation pages.
+<div align="center">
 {|style="border:1px solid #A3B1BF; text-align:left; background:#f5faff"
 | style="background: #cee0f2; padding: 0.3em; text-align:center;"|'''Template'''
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 |<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:User2|User2]]|<USERNAME>}}
 |Only creates a link to <USERNAME>s profile, in case <USERNAME> created a profile page. Otherwise just displays the name as text.
-|}
+|}</div>
+=== Infos for template creators ===
+All extensions currently installed in the Wiki are listed at [[Special:Version]]. The most important ones for template creators might be
+*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions Parser Functions]
+*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions String Functions]
+*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VariablesExtension Variables Extension]
+*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MathStatFunctions MathStatFunctions]
+*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets Widgets]
+Please note that not all parser functions listet there are available in the SL Wiki. <font color="blue">#titleparts</font> and <font color="blue">#iferror</font> are missing. Furthermore, there are known problems with conditionals and variables. See {{Jira|WEB-896}}.
+== Widgets ==
+See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets for general information about widgets. All currently in the SL Wiki available widgets can be found at [[Special:PrefixIndex/Widget:]]. You can suggest the implementation of further widgets via the [[issue tracker]].
+== Videos and Images ==
+=== Videos ===
+The [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash VideoFlash extension] allows to add YouTube and Google Videos (as well as some others). We also got a [[Widget:Blip.tv|Blip.tv widget]] as well as one for YouTube playlists, which is falsly named as [[Widget:YouTubeChannel]].
+=== Images ===
+Images can either be added via the regular MediaWiki syntax (see [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images Mediawiki Help:Images]) or via the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap ImageMap extension]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nihiltres/ImageMap_how-to ImageMap manual] from Wikipedia as well as the [http://toolserver.org/~dapete/ImageMapEdit/ImageMapEdit.html ImageMap editor tool] can be useful. Note that images added via this extension cause a line break which can be avoided by putting it in between <font color="blue"><nowiki><div class="imagemap-inline"></div></nowiki></font>.