Template:Article summary

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This template employs intricate features of template syntax.
You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.

The {{Article summary}} template is used to produce a summary text for any article. It does not have any additional parameters, but rather draws the body of the summary text from the ../Summary page which can be generated through the template.

[edit] Instructions

  1. Place the template in the "see also" section of the article page.
  2. Save the edit. An empty Translation summary title should now appear on the article page.
  3. Use the edit link inside the summary box to edit the summary text.
  4. Save your edit.
  5. Return to the original article. The summary box should now contain your edit.

Further discussion of this template can be found at WikiProject Organized Labour/Summaries.