How to edit templates in wikia

I'm trying to create a wikia, and am experimenting with Infobox templates. I've figured out how I want them to be after some trial and error, but now I'd like to know how to remove the previous templates that have been saved, or how to edit them. Sean le Magnifique wrote: Hi everyone. In terms of deleting, if you are the founder, content moderator, or admin of that wiki, you could go to the template's page, click the dropdown menu next to the pencil edit icon, and there should be an option that says "Delete".

Clicking it will successfully remove the template from the wiki. In terms of editing them, an "Edit" button doesn't appear in the dropdown menu for templates, but you can still edit them by simply clicking on the pencil icon button that allows people to edit. Hope this helps! Thanks for that. I could get to the template page and delete it, but for some reason when I went back to the page proper I would still see it in the list of templates for the infobox, as below.

Not really sure what I'm doing wrong here. I also managed to edit the template I wanted to keep, but the extra row isn't reflecting for some reason. For templates with a link to a. Add an import to that page Instuctions available at the page Installation in Dev Wiki , and you're done!

After you find that class, look at the wiki's MediaWiki:Common. Find foobar in the CSS code, and copy that class. For example:. Copy everything to your wiki's common. Make sure you credit the wiki you copied. Add an import to that page Instructions available at the page Installation in Dev Wiki , and you're done!

Note: You will need to enable community JavaScript though. Find foobar in the JavaScript code, and copy that code. Consequently, templates provide a way to manage structure and form on wiki pages in a consistent way, not unlike styles in a word processor. We recommend that you create a subpage from your Sandbox page to practice editing pedagogical templates. These curly braces instruct the wiki software to apply the specified template's formatting, in our case the template called IDevice.

The pedagogical templates also support parameters. These are variables using predefined text phrases for manipulating the behaviour of the template.

Each parameter is signaled by a vertical bar like this " " followed by the name of the parameter. Theme, type, title, and body are parameters you can use for editing and customising your template.

The parameter names are case sensitive and in the case of pedagogical templates they are all lowercase. The list below provides a summary of the parameters and options. Jump to: navigation , search. Mini challenge - Create and edit a pedagogical template in 4 steps.

Summary : Learn how to publish instructional activities using WikiEducator's predefined pedagogical templates. The purpose of this learn-by-doing challenge is to: Acquire the wiki skills for publishing pedagogical templates in WikiEducator. Discover the range of pre-defined pedagogical templates available in WikiEducator.

Follow help instructions published on WikiEducator.