Help:Embed page

This page describes the steps necessary to embed a page within another page. See also Help:Template.

Syntax
If you do not provide a namespace, the  namespace will be used. For the pages in the main namespace, add a colon before the page name.

Example
produces the following, which displays the contents of Sample Page inside the box:

You can verify this by looking directly at the Sample Page. (Note that the whole page name following the colon is "Sample Page"; this is not an example of some sort of template command called ":Sample"! The box is created by indenting  by one space.)

Embedded Special Pages
The default install of MediaWiki allows you to embed only selected special pages. (See Help:Special_pages.) To include an otherwise "unembedable" special page, you must edit the   array in the file. Each entry is in the format

The possible values for  are ,  , and.

Find the entry for the page you want to embed and change the  to. You will now be able to include/embed the special page using the include syntax:.


 * Note: changing an   will show it in Special:Specialpages. (Can this array be changed to allow multiple page types?) 

Generated Lists
See: Help:Generated lists

Embedded Images
See: Help:Images