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Create a MediaWiki template to set font color in pages

I just installed Mediawiki and realized that it is very complicated to configure it for newbie.

As one of my first entry I wanted to change font color with:

{{ font color | green | green text }}

To do that I imported Template:Font color from Wikipedia Special:Export page, but still as the result I don't get coloured text, but:

{{ safesubst:#if:

| {{ safesubst:#if: 
     | {{ safesubst:#ifeq:  | yes
     | [[ {{ safesubst:#if:1|  }}|{{ safesubst:#if:1|  }}]]
     | [[|{{ safesubst:#if:1|  }}]]
     }}
   | {{ safesubst:#if:1|  }}
   }}
| {{ safesubst:#if: 
     | {{ safesubst:#ifeq:  | yes
     | [[ {{ safesubst:#if:1|  green text  }} |{{ safesubst:#if:1|  green text  }}]]
     | [[ {{ safesubst:#if:1|  }} |{{ safesubst:#if:1|  green text  }}]]
   }}
 | {{ safesubst:#if:1|  green text  }}
 }}

}}

Could you please help me?

Solution

  • MediaWiki sucks for newbies who just want to throw a wiki together. It first needs plenty of extra work to get decent, especially in regard to templates.

    Maybe you left out an extension like ParserFunctions or Scribunto? Templates use other templates, did you tick the box "Include templates"?

    Here's a helpful blog post on how to import Wikipedia Templates into your own MediaWiki.