Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 12, 2006

How to create reusable boilerplates

Pages intended to be reused as portions of other pages are called templates. The names of template pages start with the prefix Template:. A template can be included on another page using the syntax {{Page name}}, but leave out the prefix between the curly brackets!.

On Wikipedia, templates are created to serve a variety of purposes, such as navigation boxes (e.g. Template:Europe), infoboxes, and notices (e.g. Template:Controversial).