Wikipedia:Find templates

The following lists ways of hunting or finding templates of Wikipedia markup-language (or markup macros) by searching for related words. Also note that the word "template" has another connotation, mainly used by Wikipedia system admins, as a verb to refer to issuing a canned message to users, based on putting templates on user talk-pages.

In general, any template of the form {&#123;xyzz}} is stored under page name "Template:Xyzz".

The introduction to templates is: Help:Template.

Search by related words or phrases
English Wikipedia has an extensive word-search index of all templates, to allow a wiki-search, similar to googling (as with Google Search, Yahoo! Search, Bing.com, Dogpile.com, etc.). For example, to search for the word "string" within any templates (or template names): After an initial search, then the search word(s) can be changed to re-run the search, with different words.
 * Search templates for "string" - matches string handling, stringed instruments, string theory, etc.

Groups of related templates

 * String handling: {&#123;Strlen quick}}, {&#123;Strfind short}}, {&#123;Strloc insert}}, or see full list: {&#123;String-handling templates}}
 * Flags: {&#123;Flag}}, {&#123;Flagicon}}, {&#123;Flags of Europe}} (articles), or list index of names (more than 130): prefixindex "flag...".


 * Word formatting: {&#123;nowrap}}, {&#123;Word-stub}}, or list of names with prefixindex "word...".


 * Information-box templates (infoboxes): {&#123;infobox}}, {&#123;Infobox settlement}}, {&#123;Infobox musician}}, {&#123;Infobox musician awards}}, or list names of prefixindex "infobox..." (over 10,100 templates).


 * Navigation templates (navboxes): {&#123;navbox}}, {&#123;Year nav}} (for each year article), {&#123;Navbox musical artist}}, or names with prefixindex "navbox...".


 * Mapping templates: {&#123;Location map}}, {&#123;Location map many}}, or names with prefixindex "map..." or with prefixindex "location...".


 * Color templates (colour/hue): {&#123;color}}, {&#123;grey}}, {&#123;Color box}} (see: Web colors), or names with prefixindex "color..." (20 templates).


 * WP:Disambiguation templates: {&#123;disambig}}, {&#123;hndis|name=Last, First}}, {&#123;geodis}}, {&#123;roaddis}}, {&#123;schooldis}}

Lists and categories

 * Template index — curated lists of most used templates
 * List of infoboxes
 * Category:Wikipedia templates — root category for all templates used on English Wikipedia