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Templates are a MediaWiki system that allow filling text modularly. There is [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates extensive documentation] on the MediaWiki docs.  
 
Templates are a MediaWiki system that allow filling text modularly. There is [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates extensive documentation] on the MediaWiki docs.  
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Templates admit all kinds of parameters, and are extremely flexible in what you can template. For instance, you can template away which template to use!
    
Note that templates can be used from within gadgets or user scripts (see below) as well as regular pages.
 
Note that templates can be used from within gadgets or user scripts (see below) as well as regular pages.
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This is what we use to build access requests, relying on three templates principally:
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* [[Template:Access]] to compose the text of an access request;
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* [[Template:Mailto]] to create a Mailto link;
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* [[Template:MailtoAccess]] to combine the two.
    
== Gadgets, user scripts and CSS ==
 
== Gadgets, user scripts and CSS ==

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