Help:Shared templates

Templates are one of the pieces that build a wiki.

Shared templates are templates that can be used across Wikia. They generally 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 {{wikia:templatename}} or {{w:templatename}}.

For example, if you wanted to display Template:Adoption on another wiki, you would edit a page on that wiki and enter {{wikia:adoption}} or {{w:adoption}}

It will display on that wiki as this:

This Fandom wiki is currently inactive. You can adopt this wiki and revive it.

Usage Notes

• Benefits: One advantage of having shared templates on Help:Community Central is that they are watched by a large community, and can be quickly reverted in cases of vandalism.

• Update Speed: If a template is edited on the original Wikia, pages on other wikis using it should automatically update. However, this can sometimes take a short while to occur, and can be overridden by purging (add ?action=purge to the URL).

• Case Sensitivity: You must also use the correct capitalization. {{wikia:Example}} will work, whereas {{wikia:example}} will not.

• Non-Template Pages: You can also include pages that are out of the template namespace, but instead of using {{wikia:Template name}} you must use {{wikia::Full page name}} (or {{w::Full page name}} if the last doesn't work). Note the use of a double colon between wikia (or w) and the full page name (the name of the page with its namespace, for example Help:Shared templates)

• Editing: Major changes that could have negative effects on other wikis 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 wikis 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 wikis they are used on.

• Translations: w:Translations are welcome, either at the native name for the template, or as a subpage of the English name, using [[w:Template:Name/lang code]] format. For example, the Russian version of w:Template:Wikipedia could go at w:Template:Википедия or at w:Template:Wikipedia/ru.

See also

• Help:Shared Help
• Help:Templates

Further Help & Feedback

• Browse and search other help pages at Help:Contents
• Check Fandom Community Central for sources of further help and support
• Check Contacting Fandom for how to report any errors or unclear steps in this article