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Because this site is powered by MediaWiki, it can use MediaWiki's templates. Templates are a formatting tool that present specific pieces of information in a consistent way. For example, the often-seen "citation needed" note is a template; so are the reference footnotes we use on this site. Templates can also be larger, like the info boxes describing Ars Magica products, such on The Sundered Eagle: the Theban Tribunal.

Installing New Templates

Only a few templates come with MediaWiki when one first installs it. The rest have the be manually imported. Contact us if there is a template you want to use, but is not currently installed.

Template Documentation

See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template for information on using templates in general.

We copy templates liberally from Wikipedia to create a familiar appearance, so also consult Wikipedia for documentation on specific templates.

Suggested Templates

We encourage writers and editors to use the following templates, all of which are installed on Project: Redcap.

Template:About: Describes the content of a page to differentiate it from other pages. For an example, see Hermes' Portal: the italicized text at the top (beginning "This page is about...") comes from the template.
Template:Citation needed: Use this to flag sentences in the text where a page reference is needed to document a statement.

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	Because this site is powered by [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki], it can use MediaWiki's [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template templates]. Templates are a formatting tool that present specific pieces of information in a consistent way. For example, the often-seen "citation needed" note is a template; so are the reference footnotes we use on this site. Templates can also be larger, like the info boxes describing Ars Magica products, such on [[The Sundered Eagle: the Theban Tribunal]].		Because this site is powered by [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki], it can use MediaWiki's [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template templates]. Templates are a formatting tool that present specific pieces of information in a consistent way. For example, the often-seen "citation needed" note is a template; so are the reference footnotes we use on this site. Templates can also be larger, like the info boxes describing Ars Magica products, such on [[The Sundered Eagle: the Theban Tribunal]].