Extended template syntax  From Meta, a Wikimedia project
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outdated. Some suggestions may still be relevant, but many have
been addressed by Help:ParserFunctions.  The new parameterized
template feature is very useful. However, it is limited enough
that some useful things remain difficult to do. There is
currently no simple way of having optional parameters or a
variable number of parameters.  (This was first proposed in
message substitution. The version there uses the more
programming-language-like single word pseudo-namespaces "ifdef"
and "foreach", while this version takes advantage of wikitext's
support for spaces in URLs and the like to make things more
readable)  Basic syntax[edit]  The syntax proposed here is an
extention of the {{{parameter}}} parameter inclusion syntax,
based on the {{template|parameters}} template transclusion
syntax. The various constructs are specified through the use of
"pseudo-namespaces": prefixes that look like nam