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Wiki Templates Guide

Nation Template Example
	none
Motto	"Motto Here"
Capital	Example
Leader(s)	Forgotten SMP
Founded	April 28, 2026
Government	Forgotten SMP
Population	15,000+ members
Demonym	Members
Alliances	None
Enemies	None
Territory	Forgotten SMP
Status	Active

Using templates might seem hard and quite confusing! No matter, that is why we have this guide! You’ll understand it in no time.

Stuck? Be sure to review over this guide, make sure you didn't miss any steps. If you gone through and still unsure what's wrong or aren't understanding, you may contact the historians and ask!

Getting Started

Using templates, you’ll be dealing with the pages source editing system.

Don’t threat, you won’t be making any changes to the wiki itself. Only thing the source editing will affect is your page. If there are any errors or issues, the historian team will take a look and fix it.

I: Creating your Page

Following the steps from the wiki guide, we've officially opened to the page you will be using. Instead of using the visual editor system, you will need to open the source editing.

When you first create the page, it will lock onto using the visual editor, meaning you can't click back and change to the editor source. This can be solved by clicking the pencil icon on the top bar, and dropping down, it will show visual editing and source editing. There, click source editing and it'll open up to the source editing.

Don’t know how to create a page? Go back to our Wiki Guide and look at the Creating Pages on the Wiki section!

II: Inserting the Template

Inserting the template for the page is fairly easy! Clicking the insert button on the top bar, it'll drop down a list of options you can insert. For inserting templates, click template. Opening the template menu open, here you're going to search for the template you're going to use!

If you're going to do a page about a nation, in the template search bar, type in infobox/nation. Click on the template and it'll insert it into the page.

If you're going to do a page about a character, in the template search bar, type in infobox/character. Click on the template and it'll insert it into the page.
- Having issues finding the template or search is not working? Try reloading the page, but be sure to save if you have information that hasn't been yet saved, you may have to retrace steps, and see if it'll pop up again!

III: Adding info into the Template

This is where we'll get into using the source editor! After inserting the template, which should look like the example to your right, the source editor should open up for you already. With the template, the source should already be inside!

To add in nformation, you're going to have to open to doc! This is done by doing it the same way as adding the template, just type it as infobox/nation/doc or infobox/character/doc. Instead of inserting the doc, click on the "template's page" that will pop up before, and from there, copy and paste the needed code!

If you're using nation or character template, they work the same. To type in your info, there should be a sort of guide layering it out as well.

Where you can type should say "test", "blank" or "unknown", remove these, and after the equal sign (=), you're able to fill out the infobox!

Adding the collapsible info isn't a problem.

IV: Finishing Steps

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Visual Summary

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 == '''Getting Started''' ==
-Using templates, you’ll be dealing with the pages source editing system.
+'''Using templates, you’ll be dealing with the pages source editing system.'''
 Don’t threat, you won’t be making any changes to the wiki itself. Only thing the source editing will affect is your page. If there are any errors or issues, the historian team will take a look and fix it.
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 * '''Don’t know how to create a page?''' Go back to our [[Wiki Guide]] and look at the ''Creating Pages on the Wiki'' section!
-=== '''II: Basics of Source Editing''' ===
+=== '''II: Inserting the Template''' ===
-Writing here.
+'''Inserting the template for the page is fairly easy!''' Clicking the ''insert'' button on the top bar, it'll drop down a list of options you can insert. For inserting templates, click ''template.'' Opening the template menu open, here you're going to search for the template you're going to use!
-=== '''III: Inserting the Template''' ===
+* '''If you're going to do a page about a nation''', in the template search bar, type in ''infobox/nation.'' Click on the template and it'll insert it into the page.
-'''Inserting the template for the page is fairly easy!''' Clicking the ''insert'' button on the top bar, it'll drop down a list of options you can insert. For templates, click ''template.'' Opening the template menu open, here you're going to search for the template you're going to use!
-'''If you're going to do a page about a nation''', in the template search bar, type in ''infobox/nation.'' Click on the template and it'll insert it into the page.
+* '''If you're going to do a page about a character''', in the template search bar, type in ''infobox/character''. Click on the template and it'll insert it into the page.
+** Having issues finding the template or search is not working? Try reloading the page, but be sure to save if you have information that hasn't been yet saved, you may have to retrace steps, and see if it'll pop up again!
-'''If you're going to do a page about a character''', in the template search bar, type in ''infobox/character''. Click on the template and it'll insert it into the page.
+=== '''III: Adding info into the Template''' ===
+'''This is where we'll get into using the source editor!''' After inserting the template, which should look like the example to your right, the source editor should open up for you already. With the template, the source should already be inside!
-* Having issues finding the template or search is not working? Try reloading the page, but be sure to save if you have information that hasn't been yet saved, you may have to retrace steps, and see if it'll pop up again!
+{{Infobox/Nation
+| name        = Nation Template Example
+| flag        = none
+| motto       = "Motto Here"
+| capital     = Example
+| leader      = Forgotten SMP
+| founded     = April 28, 2026
+| government  = Forgotten SMP
+| population  = 15,000+ members
+| demonym     = Members
+| alliances   = None
+| enemies     = None
+| territory   = Forgotten SMP
+| status      = Active
+}}
-=== '''IV: Adding info into the Template''' ===
+'''To add in nformation''', '''you're going to have to open to doc!''' This is done by doing it the same way as adding the template, just type it as ''infobox/nation/doc'' or ''infobox/character/doc''. Instead of inserting the doc, click on the "template's page" that will pop up before, and from there, copy and paste the needed code!
-'''This is where we'll get into using the source editor!''' After inserting the template, the source editor should open up for you already. With the template, the source should already be inside!
-(example picture?)
+'''If you're using nation or character template, they work the same.''' To type in your info, there should be a sort of guide layering it out as well.
-'''If you're using nation or character template, they work the same.''' To put in your info, there should be a sort of guide layering it out as well. Where you can type should say "test", "blank" or "Unknown", remove these, and after the equal sign (=), you're able to fill out the infobox!
+* Where you can type should say "test", "blank" or "unknown", remove these, and after the equal sign (=), you're able to fill out the infobox!
 '''Adding the collapsible info isn't a problem.'''
-=== '''V: Finishing Steps''' ===
+=== '''IV: Finishing Steps''' ===
 Will review if there are five steps, I just guessed.