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Wiki entries, when seen as edited sources, often have 4 parts, separated by "====":
- main content,
- a decorative image (sometimes by "flickr:flickr_id" syntax),
- additional content (depending on a page's category),
- general description of the item.
Let's call this four-part structure a scheme.
Templates as initial content
As a built-in Wikidot category, a template means initial content for new entries. Vvisible at the start of making a new article, it will hint at the meaning of elements of the scheme and it will provide the structure for the main content.
- Initial content: Activity
- Initial content: Cite
- Initial content: Glossary
- Initial content: People
- Initial content: Rename
- Initial content: Sub
Templates as style
Templates as a shared look for a category are done in category:_template pages. Each template below uses the scheme in different ways.
- No category: _template
- Template: Activity
- Template: Book
- Template: Cite
- Template: Cue
- Template: Data (form)
- Template: Drop
- Template: Ep
- Template: Event (form)
- Template: Game
- Template: Glossary
- Template: Hub (basic)
- Template: Link (form)
- Template: Music (form)
- Template: Other (deprecated)
- Template: People
- Template: Print
- Template: Review
- Template: Set
- Template: Source
- Template: Sub
- Template: time-b (redirect)
- Template: time-c (redirect)
- Template: time-d (redirect)
- Template: time-e (redirect)
- Template: Time
- Template: Wiki
But if you need to assign CSS style for a category, it's best to assign it in pages called category:_css, as these have an instant effects for all pages in the category.