User:Tabecket/sandbox

Time / Month. What is Template "tm"?
Back to top The month and day is:.

The template that is supposed to produce, September, 2018 creates nothing. The syntax, suggests there is a template called, tm. But, the link, Template:tm does not bring us to any such template.

Yet, this is used, on the MediaWiki version lifecycle page. H-m-m-m.

Not even the link to the page where this was found works, MediaWiki, version lifecycle. Does the hard link?


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Oh, that is because tm template is on template is on MediaWiki, proper.

Opening Exercise
Back to top What is | ? Entering | Results in Entering Template:! Results in Template:!

Following this link leads to the Mediawiki help page on magic words where we learn that the is used to include a pipe character as part of a template argument or table cell contents. Before this was added as a magic word, many wikis implemented this by creating Template:! with  as the content.