Wikipedia:Find templates

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The following lists ways of hunting or finding templates of Wikipedia markup-language (or markup macros) by searching for related words.

In general, any template of the form {{xyzz}} is stored under page name "Template:Xyzz".

The introduction to templates is: Help:Template.

Search by related words or phrases

English Wikipedia has an extensive word-search index of all templates, to allow a wiki-search, similar to googling (as with Google Search, Yahoo! Search, Bing.com, Dogpile.com, etc.). For example, to search for the word "string" within any templates (or template names):

• Search templates for "string" – matches string handling, stringed instruments, string theory, etc.

After an initial search, then the search word(s) can be changed to re-run the search, with different words.

Groups of related templates

• String handling: {{Strlen quick}}, {{Strfind short}}, or see full list: {{String-handling templates}}
• Flags: {{Flag}}, {{Flagicon}}, {{Flags of Europe}} (articles), or list index of names (more than 130): prefixindex "flag...".

• Word formatting: {{Nowrap}}, {{Word-stub}}, or list of names with prefixindex "word...".

• Information-box templates (infoboxes): {{Infobox}}, {{Infobox settlement}}, {{Infobox musician}}, {{Infobox musician awards}}, or list names of prefixindex "infobox..." (over 10,100 templates).

• Navigation templates (navboxes): {{Navbox}}, {{Year nav}} (for each year article), {{Navbox musical artist}}, or names with prefixindex "navbox...".

• Mapping templates: {{Location map}}, {{Location map many}}, or names with prefixindex "map..." or with prefixindex "location...".

• Color templates (colour/hue): {{Color}}, {{Grey}}, {{Color box}} (see: Web colors), or names with prefixindex "color..." (20 templates).

• WP:Disambiguation templates: {{Disambig}}, {{Human name disambiguation|name=Last, First}}, {{Geodis}}, {{Roaddis}}, {{Schooldis}}

Lists and categories

• Wikipedia:Template index — curated lists of most used templates
• Wikipedia:List of infoboxes
• Category:Wikipedia templates — root category for all templates used on English Wikipedia

See also

• Help:Template – introduction to templates
• Help:Calculation – introduction to calculations using function #expr
• WP:Advanced template coding – advanced techniques of writing markup
• Help:Magic – list of magic-word functions for markup
• WP:Parser function – list of general MediaWiki parser functions
• WP:Icons – some lists linking hundreds of icon-symbol images

Notes