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The MediaWiki software used to run Wikitravel offers the capability to automatically generate sophisticated HTML using templates. Templates should be discussed before being created or modified. The list below shows templates that are currently available.

Contents 1 Available Templates 1.1 Notices 1.1.1 Article status 1.1.2 Disambiguation notices 1.1.3 Articles needing attention 1.1.4 Collaboration of the week 1.1.5 Other information notices 1.2 Content insertion 1.3 Budget terminals at Sing, KL 2 Inserting Boilerplate Text 3 See also

Available Templates

The following templates can be used in articles.

Notices

Notices are short fragments of standard text that should appear on relevant pages. Most reflect an article's status. A template is used so that a standard text appears on each relevant page. This saves typing. The following notices are currently available.

Article status

These notices are used to indicated article status:

Wiki Markup	Purpose	Template Display
{{vfd}}	Indicates that an article has been recommended for deletion. This notice should be added to the top of the article.	This page has been recommended for deletion from Wikitravel. If you have an opinion, please discuss on the Votes for deletion page. Pages that are recommended for deletion are usually removed in about 14 days. We'd rather fix than delete articles; please read the deletion policy and if you can help fix this one, plunge forward and work on it. Please note that removing this message won't stop the article from being deleted; it will just make it harder to discuss the deletion. Reminder: please check if anything links here and the page history before deleting.
{{stub}}	Indicates that an article is at stub status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article.	This article is still a stub and needs your attention. It does not have a template and contains minimal information. Please plunge forward and help it grow!
{{outline}}	Indicates that an article is at outline status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article.	This article is an outline and needs more content. It has a template, but there is not enough information present. Please plunge forward and help it grow!
{{usablecity}} {{usableregion}} {{usablecountry}} {{usablephrasebook}} {{usabletopic}} {{usableitinerary}} {{usablepark}}	Indicates that a an article of the specified type is at usable status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article just below the content.	e.g. This is a usable article. It has information for getting in as well as some complete entries for restaurants and hotels. An adventurous person could use this article, but please plunge forward and help it grow!
{{guidecity}} {{guideregion}} {{guidecountry}} {{guidephrasebook}} {{guidetopic}} {{guideitinerary}} {{guidepark}}	Indicates that a an article of the specified type is at guide status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article just below the content.	e.g. This is a guide article. It has a variety of good, quality information including hotels, restaurants, attractions, arrival and departure info. Plunge forward and help us make it a star!
{{starnomination}}	Indicates that a an article of has been nominated for star status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article just below the content, in place of the "guide" template.	This Guide-quality article has been nominated for "Star" article status. To be considered a Star article, it has to be comprehensive, properly formatted, and well written. Please comment on whether or not you think it meets the specific criteria, at Wikitravel:Star nominations#Template index. And if you think it's not quite ready, please plunge forward and help make it so!
{{starcity}} {{starregion}} {{starcountry}} {{starphrasebook}} {{startopic}} {{staritinerary}} {{starpark}}	Indicates that a an article of the specified type is at star status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article just below the content.	e.g. This is a star article. It is a high-quality article complete with maps, photos, and great information. If you know of something that has changed, please plunge forward and help it grow!

Disambiguation notices

These notices are used with disambiguation pages:

Wiki Markup	Purpose	Template Display
{{disamb}}	Indicates that a page is a disambiguation page. This notice should be added to the bottom of all disambiguation pages.	This article is a disambiguation page. If you arrived here by following a link from another page you can help by correcting it, so that it points to the appropriate disambiguated page.
{{otheruses}}	Used on pages that would normally require disambiguation, but meet the "most famous" exception (such as Paris and Denmark). This notice should be added to the top of the article and will create a link to a disambiguation page.	For other places with the same name, see Paris (disambiguation).

Articles needing attention

These notices are used to indicate that an article needs attention due to some problem:

Wiki Markup	Purpose	Template Display
{{style}}	Indicates that a page does not conform to the manual of style. This notice should be placed at the top of an article.	This article does not match our manual of style or needs other editing. Please plunge forward, give it your attention and help it grow!
{{copyvio|url}}	Used on pages that contain a copyright violations. This notice should be placed at the top of an article. Note that it is generally preferred to just remove copyrighted information and then leave a note on the talk page indicating where the content came from and why it was removed.	This page contains content which appears to be a copyright violation. The content in question appears to have been appropriated from: http://ecuadortrauma.com/english/guayaquil.htm. Please refer to our policies and guidelines for an explanation of what content can and cannot be used on this site. If you are the author of the content in question, please let us know that it's OK for us to use your work by leaving a note on the talk page.
{{merge|destination}}	Indicates that an article does not meet the article criteria and that its content should be merged into the destination article. This notice should be placed at the top of an article.	This page should be merged into San Francisco, please see the talk page for a rationale. You can help by copying any relevant information from this page to the new page!

Collaboration of the week

These notices are used to promote articles that are collaborations of the week:

Wiki Markup	Purpose	Template Display
{{cotw|from-date|to-date}}	Indicates that a page is the current collaboration of the week. This notice should be placed at the top of an article as well as at the top of the article's talk page.	This article is the Collaboration of the week for the period 27 Mar 2006 to 2 Apr 2006. Find out how it can be improved, and plunge forward to make this an article we can be proud of!
{{pcotw|from-date|to-date}}	Indicates that a page was previously a collaboration of the week. This notice should be placed at the top of an article's talk page.	This article was the Collaboration of the week between 27 Mar 2006 and 2 Apr 2006.
{{cotwpromote}}	Used on the front page to promote the current collaboration of the week.	This week, Pittsburgh is the collaboration of the week. Help out by plunging forward to make it into a star article!
{{Current COTW}}	Used by other templates to create a link to the current collaboration of the week.	Pittsburgh

Other information notices

Informational notices provide warnings and disclaimers about hazards or other vital pieces of information that travelers should be alerted to.

Wiki Markup	Purpose	Template Display
{{disclaimerbox|disclaimer}}	A disclaimer is a sparingly-used message, normally containing editorial content about policy decisions. A disclaimer should generally be discussed prior to being added to an article.	Here Tibet is used as a synonym for the Tibetan Autonomous Region (T.A.R.) of China not the historic Tibet in existance prior to the Chinese take over. This is not a political statement. The strict restrictions on freedom of movement put on foreigners, sharply divides the T.A.R from ethnically Tibetan areas that form a geographic and cultural continuation of Tibet to the east of the T.A.R..
{{warningbox|warning}}	Used to call out information that is vital to a traveler's safety, such as recent damage from a natural disaster, political instability, or some other serious condition. Warning boxes should be sparingly used and placed either at the top of an article or within the article section that is related to the warning.	WARNING: The effects of Hurricane Katrina severely damaged parts of New Orleans at the end of August, 2005, and it expected to take many months for the city to return to normality. As of Spring 2006, most services in the main travel centers (French Quarter, Central Business District, Garden District, and Faubourg Marigny) are back to normal; however, be prepared for contingencies if you're traveling outside the city center.

Content insertion

These templates are used to standardize the look of specific Wikitravel article content.

Wiki Markup	Purpose	Template Display
{{infobox|title|description}}	Used to create an infobox to display an interesting fact or notable piece of information within an article. Infoboxes should be used sparingly.	Sample title Sample description
{{newsitem|title|date|description}}	Used to create a news item on the Main Page.	Budget terminals at Sing, KL 23 March 2006 New airport terminals built for low-cost carriers open in Kuala Lumpur on March 23 and in Singapore in March 26. Flights by Air Asia, Malaysia's sole low cost carrier, will operate from the new terminal, while Tiger Airways will move to Singapore's Budget Terminal. (more...)
{{quickbar | image=[[Image:Pretty.jpg|noframe|250px]] | flag=[[Image:xx-flag.png]] | location=[[Image:xx-location.png]] | capital=Capital | government=Government type | currency=Local currency (ABC) | area=123 sq km | population=4,567,890 (July 2005 est.) | language=Language1, Language2 | religion=Religion1, Religion2 | electricity=xxxV/yyHz (Z plug) | callingcode=+CC | tld=.xx | timezone=UTC +N }}	Used to create the quick reference box for country pages (and should not be used anywhere else). All arguments to the command are optional. For the image argument, please make sure the width is exactly 250px (the width of the quickbar) and that the "noframe" option is specified.	Flag Quick Facts Capital Singapore Government Parliamentary pepublic Currency Singapore dollar (SGD) Area total: 692.7 sq km water: 10 sq km land: 682.7 sq km Population 4,425,720 (July 2005 est.) Language English (official), Chinese (official), Malay (official and national), Tamil (official) Religion Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Taoist, Confucianist Electricity 230V/50Hz (British plug) Calling Code +65 Internet TLD .sg Time Zone UTC +8
{{traveltopic}}	Identifies an article as a Wikitravel "travel topic" article. Should be placed at the top of the content of an article.	This article is a travel topic.
{{discover}}	Inserts the current "Wikitravel Discover" factoids. Should be placed in the appropriate spot on the Main Page.	In the original version of HG Wells' War of the Worlds, the outskirts of Woking, England were the location for the aliens' attacks on Earth. On the Grecian island of Rhodes, which has over 300 sunny days a year, umbrellas are often sold as a "gag" souvenir. One of the highlights of the Whole Enchilada Festival, an annual event in Las Cruces, New Mexico (USA), is the preparation of the world's largest enchilada.

Inserting Boilerplate Text

Wikitravel has a number of article templates that can be used to format articles. The following substitution texts can be used to quickly insert the article template into newly created articles. When the article is saved the shortcut is replaced with the text. This is a one-off substitution and can only be undone by deleting the inserted text - use with care.

• Country - Type {{subst:country}} into the edit box. - Expands into the Country article template text when saved.
• Region - Type {{subst:region}} into the edit box. - Expands into the Region article template text when saved.
• Small city - Type {{subst:smallcity}} into the edit box. - Expands into the Small city article template text when saved.
• Big city - Type {{subst:bigcity}} into the edit box. - Expands into the Big city article template text when saved.
• Huge city - Type {{subst:hugecity}} into the edit box. - Expands into the Huge city article template text when saved.
• District - Type {{subst:district}} into the edit box. - Expands into the District article template text when saved.
• Park - Type {{subst:park}} into the edit box. - Expands into the Park article template text when saved.

See also

• Using Mediawiki templates - Policies about template use and creation.
• Article templates - Guidelines about standard sections that should be included in Wikitravel articles.