Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5173123-20161201025552/@comment-168424-20161202232118

The Javascript thing is very involved, so we'll start with straightforward transcluding. Transcluding is how templates work, it basically makes a copy of the template and inserts a version of it where the template is called with changes based on the parameters you pass when you call the template.

What most people don't know is you can transclude any page (or subpage) in a wiki into another page in a wiki using slightly different wikitext markup.

I do this with my CC user page, so I'll use it as an example.

My user page has a bunch of tabs (Who, Where, What, etc.) created using &lt;tabber&gt;, but I don't put the contents of each tab in my user page. I transclude subpages into the tab area. This makes my userpage wikitext actually quite small: Who=

Where=

What=

Sandbox=

Useful=

So the difference transcluding a non-template page is just a simple colon added after the beginning curly braces before the page name I want to transclude.

I'll transclude the example above below (inside a box, so it doesn't take up too much space):

Does that make sense?