Help:Template

This page is meant to help you with the use of templates on the wiki.

Editing or creating templates

Editing a template is almost as easy as editing a normal wiki page. Lets say, you want to edit a template with the name "what you always wanted to know". To do so open "wiki.flightgear.org/Template:what_you_always_wanted_to_know" (mind the underscores, that replace the spaces!). If you created a new template, you can embed it in any wiki article from now on by writing: {{what you always wanted to know}} (insert the template name here).

Translating templates

Translating templates is working different than translating normal articles. All translations are written in the same file. The translated text (in this case a German and a Spanish one) is surrounded by the following construct:

{{ #ifeq: {{#titleparts: {{PAGENAME}} | 1 }} | De | German text... | {{ #ifeq: {{#titleparts: {{PAGENAME}} | 1 }} | Es | Spanish text... | English text... }} }}

This is a script, which tells the wiki software, that the block containing the German text should only be evaluated, if the name of the page, the template is embedded in, contains the "De" text pattern, which can be found in all names of German wiki-pages. The Spanish translation is treated the same way. If none of the language codes is found in the pages name, we can be sure, it is an English one or another language, which is not handled so far by the template and apply the English version of the text. Do not forget the closing brackets at the end. You need two of them for every translation, except for the English. Of course this works for any language. Just look up your language code.

User messages

Tag	Text that will be shown	Place
{{abc}}	A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z	Top
{{afd}}	This page has been nominated for deletion. To discuss it, please visit the talk page. Do not remove this tag until the discussion is closed.	Top
{{Boeing}}		Bottom
{{Building}}		Bottom
{{cleanup}}	This article may require cleanup to meet the wiki's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can..	Top
{{non-stable}}	This article describes content/features that might not be available in the standard version of FlightGear currently. You may need to install some extra components or use the development (Git) version and rebuild FlightGear from source.	Top
{{Main article|Link to article}}	See Link to article for the main article about this subject.
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{{mergefrom|page}}	It has been suggested that page be merged into this article or section.	Top
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{{mergedisputed|page}}	It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with page, but this suggestion is disputed.	Top
{{split-multiple}}	Template:Split-multiple	Top
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{{Under Construction}}	Work in progress This article or section will be worked on in the upcoming hours or days. See history for the latest developments.	Top

Infoboxes

Aircraft

Airbus A380
Type	Airliner
Liveries	British Airways, Emirates Airline, Singapore Airlines
Author(s)	Ampere K.
FDM	JSBSim
--aircraft	A380
Status	Under development

Airport

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Schiphol in the FlightGear NL scenery
IATA AMS			ICAO EHAM
Type			public
Owner			Schiphol Group
City			Amsterdam, The Netherlands
website
Runways
Runway		Length		Material
18R/36L		3800 m		Asfalt
06/24		3490 m		Asfalt
FlightGear scenery

User

Jack
Location			New York, United States
Age			21
Job			Pilot
Interests			FlightGear, Computers, Aircraft
Callsign			jackie
Favourite Aircraft			Boeing 747-400, Cessna C172
Website			http://www.jp.flightgear.org