MAG:Templates

Templates are an important part of any good mediawiki wiki. They help tag, categorize, identify, stylize and format articles, and improve code readability and clarity, and generally make life easier for everybody.

To that end, I'd like to focus efforts here on creating and maintaining a set of templates for maemowiki.

Tasks

 * Develop guidelines for the creation, categorization, style and format of new templates.
 * Ensure existing templates comply with these guidelines.
 * Figure out what templates we need (this is a very fluid task that will likely never be completed).
 * Create those templates.

== Types of templates

There are effectively two types of templates that need to be created:

First, we have transcluded templates are those that help in navigation, organization, categorization, and tagging. Things like,
 * Template:Main:


 * Template:100Days agenda:


 * Template:Community:

that are designed to maintain uniform looks and formats across the entire wiki. These will constitute the bulk of the work.

Second, we have substituted templates, which are those that provide skeletal frameworks for certain types of pages. These will include things like the Close-source justification page, and open-source petition page.