Formatting Templates
Introduction Pages
Like all MediaWiki installations, This platform uses templates to create standard formatting effects. A template is a specific kind of Wiki Markup where a single code is used to represent a bunch of formatting or text. Sometimes templates are used in isolation to define a page type. In other cases, a template can wrap around text or images so they appear in a certain way (this is how we do multi-column layouts. The following templates are in common use throughout the platform.
{{Workgroup}}- for pages about groups of people that work together.{{Effort}}- for pages describing the projects they do.{{Product}}- for pages describing documents, graphics or websites.{{Place}}- for pages describing specific geographies.{{Topic}}- for pages about anthropogenic or ecological concepts or phenomena.
We also have a set of templates specifically for Landform Scale Places:
{{headwatersite}}- a watershed management unit in the highland portions of Puget Sound.{{watershedsite}}- a watershed management unit tributary to a floodplain, or a coastal shoreline or inlet process unit watershed.{{floodplainsite}}- a floodplain unit with divisions generally based on local planning.{{deltasite}}- a delta process unit assocaited with a major river mouth{{embaymentsite}}- a coastal inlet or barrier-type embayment along the shoreline{{beachsite}}- a shoreline process unit including bluff-backed beach{{headlandsite}}- a shoreline process unit dominated by rocky shoreline landforms
The following templates are used to create effects on page content. The numbers sign indicates where you would insert content
{{ImageBullet| # | # }}- the first insertion is a link for the image to be used as an icon. The second entry is for the text that will be placed immediately to the right of that icon.{{TwoColumn| # | # }}- each entry is used to populate one of the columns. The columns are responsive, so that if you view them on a phone, they will stack.{{ThreeColumn| # | # | # }}- each entry is used to populate one of the columns. The columns are responsive, so that if you view them on a phone, they will stack.{{TwoColumnTwoPicture| # | # }}- for each entry, provide a link to an image. The images will scale so that they fill the available space. If they are viewed on a phone they will stack.{{TwoColumnLeftPicture| # | # }}- In this layout the first entry is an image. The second entry is for text that
For example the following code:
{{ImageBullet|[[File:Riverdelta.jpg|200px]]|This is text that uses a picture of a particular size as a bullet.}}
Will create the following output:
This is text that uses a picture of a particular size as a bullet.
Dynamic Page List Templates
We are developing a set of templates to support standardized summaries on core pages.
{{PlaceProducts| # }}- Provides a three column summary of products associated with a place name (#).
{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/ |hideredirects=1 |stripprefix=1 |columns=1}}- This code creates a list of sub-pages when embedded on a page.
