Help:Shared templates

Shared templates are templates that can be used across Wikia. These templates originate on Community Central.

Step by step

 * First, identify which template you're going to use by visiting it on Community Central. You can browse for a specific template at [ Special:AllPages]. You can also create a new one from scratch.
 * Then, go to the page you wish to display the template on at another wiki, and open that page for editing.
 * On the page, enter   or  . You can also use a redirected template, e.g.,   for  .
 * For example, if you wanted to display Template:Adoption on another community, you would edit a page there and enter   or  
 * It will display on that community like this:

General notes

 * Benefits: One advantage of having shared templates on Help:Wikia Community Central is that they are watched by a large community, and can be quickly fixed in cases of vandalism.
 * Non-template pages: You can also include pages that are out of the template namespace, but instead of using  you must use ,  ,   or  . There are three (or two) colons in these cases; one arranges to look for a  full page name instead of a template name, another terminates the interwiki prefix   or its shorthand  , and the third colon terminates the namespace in a full page name such as.
 * Editing: Major changes that could have negative effects on other communities should not be made to any shared templates. However, corrections and improvements that won't prevent the templates from functioning in the way they were originally used are welcome.
 * Styling: Since these templates will be used on communities with a wide variety of stylesheets in place, be careful not to add unnecessary styling and formatting to the templates, since this might conflict with the style of the communities they are used on.
 * Translations: Translations are welcome, either at the native name for the template, or as a subpage of the English name, using lang code]] format. For example, the Russian version of Template:Wikipedia could go at Template:Википедия or at Template:Wikipedia/ru.

Limitations

 * Parameters: Parameters cannot be used with shared templates.
 * Update speed: If a template is edited on Community Central, pages on other communities using it should automatically update. However, this can sometimes take a short while to occur, and can be overridden by editing the destination page.
 * Noinclude:  is not currently passed through. For example, Template:Other free used as   on another community still shows the documentation section.
 * Categories: Community Central pages used as shared template do not affect the categories of the page where the shared template is used. For example,  works as expected, but does not set Category:Wikia script accounts.

Further help and feedback
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