Forum:About Template Documentation

hello

I am trying to have this type of template set up on my wiki, but it does not appear to be working. The wiki I have was created before all the starter features was given. So basically I have to do much of this manually.

What it looks like
 * w:c:gaia:Template:Documentation
 * w:c:gaia:Template:Documentation/doc

What it should look like
 * w:c:testingsandbox:Template:Documentation
 * w:c:testingsandbox:Template:Documentation/doc

This is what was previously on the Documentation page before I edited it. I don't even remember putting this on the wiki, as I usually remember a lot of what I delete and create, even though my history says other wise.

Is this something I have to add on a CSS? Should I contact a staff to (I don't know) install the stater templates for me?

Some information. When I copy/paste Template:Documentation code to an entirely different template, the documentation/doc appears at it should. Is the page cursed?



-- Bunai82 (talk) 02:07, July 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't quite see what the problem is - the template looks like it should and it seems to work when 'noincluded' on a template page. Could you be more precise? — Sovq 06:25, July 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * is the bane of templates. When in doubt, use  around template stuff that you want to be transcluded, but you still want to see on the template page itself. Use   around template stuff you want to only transclude, but don't want to see on the template page (like categories you want applied with the template). Use   only for stuff you want explicitly not transcluded, otherwise you will often get unexpected linebreaks or very confusing wikicode.
 * Here is an example of good template (or doc) structure:

 Some descriptive stuff that you don't want transcluded. Good for simple template documentation. Template stuff to be transcluded. Stuff not to be transcluded, like categories applied to the template page itself, but would be better outside onlyincludes. Stuff only to be transcluded, like categories to be applied to the page the template is transcluded to.
 * For the record, I also don't like transcluded template documentation, because I assume it is for some performance benefit which is negligible for many templates, but makes editing the template documentation overly complicated.
 * -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 9 Jul 2011 10:50 AM Pacific


 * So I changed
 * To Which seemed to work on the display part of the page. Honestly I don't know how you cannot see the difference between the pages I linked ^_^;;


 * I am not good at understanding css, coding, and templates, so the way I currently have templates set up is actually pretty confusing to me, spent hours some months ago getting them to work and display correctly. -- Bunai82 (talk) 19:23, July 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * I see no difference at all.
 * There are differences in the buttons and in some spacing but that's due to CSS.
 * I just don't see how the 2 templates would work differently in 2 wikis.
 * 20:44, July 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * 20:44, July 9, 2011 (UTC)