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

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

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

Voting templates

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

Documentation templates

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

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

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

Graphic templates

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

Internationalisation templates

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

Templates for user pages

{{User info}}