User:Ohiostandard/Templates2

__NOINDEX__ No templates currently under development. – OhioStandard  (talk) 19:17, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

— Example (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.121.201.58 (talk) 06:51, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

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No templates currently under development here. – OhioStandard  (talk) 13:41, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Fun with wikicode!
Suppose I added the first sentence below to an article's talk page, signed my contribution with the usual four tilde characters, and hit "save". Then further suppose another user came along and appended rest of the wikicode/markup thats shown (in edit mode) below:


 * I vote maybe, absolutely maybe, there's no valid reason for anyone to express any other opinion, and I'll sit on the dairy products of anyone who tries! –  OhioStandard  (talk) 13:41, 21 July 2010 (UTC) — Ohiostandard (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Can anyone explain to me what the purpose and affect of the following trailing code that's included above might be?

It doesn't seem to do anything... unless it prevents SignBot from coming along and appending the username/talk/contribs info of the account who added the wikicode? If that's the case, I'd be curious to understand how it does that, if anyone is feeling especially ambitious and charitable. ( And being directed to "The Big Book of Wikicode" that must exist somewhere. ) I'm reasonably familiar with several programming languages if knowing that would make anyone more likely to try to explain how it works. Thanks, –  OhioStandard  (talk) 13:41, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * it does do something if you add a date into the spa like this: GB fan it creates — GB fan (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. ,   GB fan  talk 12:47, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * It is so that you can add unsigned and the spa wording with one template if the spa didn't sign.  GB fan  talk 12:48, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Got it, thanks so much! I'm always impressed at the extent and depth of technical knowledge available here. Can you also tell me where I should look to learn more about wikicode without just asking y'all? –  OhioStandard  (talk) 13:16, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I just picked it up from playing with it the last few years. Don't really have any advice as to where to go to learn it.   GB fan  talk 13:21, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks! –  OhioStandard  (talk) 13:44, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Modifying a template
Here's the code for the template that you can use to "give someone a cookie", viz. Template:WikiCookie, which is instandiated or invoked by or.

Source code: (minus the nowiki tags, of course)



So what if I were to try this: