Forum:Passing arguments to central templates

I created a template Mrjoeterrace so that I could have the same information on all of the wikis that I edit. However, it would be nice to pass information to the template so that I can include custom information for a specific wiki as the need arises (i.e. change the colors used in my box to match the theme used on the wiki, or include additional text). Anyhow, I thought that I had set this up correctly, but it is not working as I desire. Any thoughts out there as to how I can do this (or whether I can do this at all)?

I also tried this out at Sandbox for central Wiki testing. The first instance should be customized with different colors and text and the second should be the default, but these both display as the default.

Thanks in advance, Mrjoeterrace 14:30, March 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've been told that this is not currently possible. There is a workaround so that you can have different templates for different wikis. You can just use subpages of your current template and have those subpages use the parameters you want. Then you can just transcribe the subpages on the individual wikis. The problem is that you have to maintain them here rather than on those wikis. The 888th Avatar   (talk)  02:41, April 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Do you know any examples of this subpage method in use anywhere, 888th? -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 5:56 AM PST 3 Apr 2010


 * Immediately from RC, Template:User:Skizzerz vs. Template:User:Skizzerz/banner. The 888th Avatar   (talk)  06:03, April 3, 2010 (UTC)