Media Wiki Concepts

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Transclusion

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion

Transclusion means the inclusion of the content of a document into another document by reference. The most common situation where transclusion is used is the use of templates: the same content can be included in multiple documents without having having to edit those documents separately.

Namespace

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Namespaces

Templates

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates


A template is a page in the "Template:" namespace that gets transcluded in regular pages that refer to it. This mechanism is useful to disseminate complex content into multiple target pages, while editing the source context in just one place and referring to it via a simple name from the target pages.

This is how a template gets declared:

Media Wiki Editing - Declaring a Template

This is how a template gets referred: