Dotta's Mediawiki Tips

Templates

• Read the documentation on templates: Help:Templates

CSS For Templates

Look at how elegant this

Image

template is on Mediawiki Template:Image on Mediawiki. They also load custom CSS just for this template, which is handy.

Dynamic Gallery

If you want to have a dynamic gallery, you can't use the typical

gallery

tag, you have to do it like this:

{{#tag:gallery|
{{Test/Dotta/GalleryItem}}
|mode=packed-hover|caption=foo|
}}

More generically, this is the syntax for using tags with the parser functions src