Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4482574-20140411174657/@comment-1330470-20140411175908

Help:Templates might be useful.

Basically, a template is generally used for code that you want to use on a bunch of pages at once. Suppose I want to mark an image as being licensed under the CC-BY-SA license. I might write the following code:

on the image's page in the File: namespace. This will produce:

But I know that I'm going to have a lot of CC-BY-SA-licensed images on my wiki, so to simplify things, I'll store this code at Template:CC-BY-SA, and then I can just call the template by typing the following on the file page of every such wiki, transcluding the template.