Help:Templates

A template is a Wikidata page created to be included in other pages. Templates usually contain repetitive material that might need to show up on a larger number of articles or pages.

The most common method of inclusion is called transclusion, where the wikitext of the target page contains a reference to the template, using the {{Template name}} syntax.

This page provide a comprehensive guide to explore and discover templates in Wikidata.

Link templates edit

Some templates provides an easy way to link to some kind of things in Wikidata.

Concept	Template	Example
Items	`{{Q}}`	`{{Q\|5}}` → human (Q5)
Properties	`{{P}}`	`{{P\|31}}` → instance of (P31)
Lexemes	`{{L}}`	`{{L\|1}}` → ama/𒂼 (L1)
Statements	`{{Statement}}`	`{{Statement\|Q42\|P31\|Q5}}` → Douglas Adams (Q42)instance of (P31)human (Q5)
WikiProject	`{{Project}}`	`{{Project\|Templates}}` → WikiProject Templates
Data types	`{{Datatype}}`	`{{Datatype\|geo-shape}}` → Geographic shape

Sidenote: MediaWiki templates on this wiki can be linked with {{Template}}.

Notification templates edit

Some templates are useful to create notifications. For instance, {{Ping}} provides notifications for users and {{Ping project}} notify participants to a WikiProject.

Voting templates edit

Voting templates are useful to vote in a discussion. One can use {{Support}} or {{Oppose}}.

Documentation templates edit

Documentation templates are used for documentation. {{Property documentation}} provides documentation for properties and {{Item documentation}} provides documentation for items.

There are also class specific templates such as {{TP given name}}, {{TP family name}}, {{TP administrative area}},{{TP award}},{{TP organization}}.

SPARQL templates edit

SPARQL templates provides a way to insert SPARQL queries in Wikidata.

{{SPARQL}}, {{SPARQL2}}, {{SPARQL Inline}} and {{SPARQL Box}} provide different layout solutions.

{{Query page}} provides a template to write a query in a dedicated subpage.

See Wikidata:WikiProject Templates/SPARQL templates

For simple queries that only consist of some (subject, predicate, object) triple, you can use {{Quickquery}}.

Layout templates edit

{{Colorbar}} provide a graphical element which can be displayed in a page.

Graphic templates edit

{{Graph:Lines}} shows a line graph.

Internationalisation templates edit

{{LangSwitch}} provides a solution to multilingual text in a page.

Templates for user pages edit

{{User info}}