Board Thread:Dragon City Wiki/@comment-10090661-20140328012220/@comment-10090661-20140330004921

I guess I should include a description of mailmerge.

Mailmerge is a template function that allows people to send out mail in a more personalized form.

On a typewriter, or a normal word processor function, you would have to type 100 letters to 100 people, if you want it personalized.

Alternatively, you can type up 1 letter with blank spaces for you to insert the name, address and personal details by typewriter. That is called a Template. :)

Unfortunately people soon got fed up of receiving this sort of letter, because it clearly is a mass mail and no one likes being thought of as a number.

To fix this problem, word processors soon came up with an automated way to insert personal information of the recipients into a template. It was called mailmerge. :)

Instead of inserting a blank space in the Template, we insert an instruction to the word processor to either locate and insert data, or a simple calculation on data, and insert the results where the blank space was in the template.

And that's where we are today. :)

Wikia is basically a bunch of folders with pages in it. DCW uses Template functions extensively to insert information we want to see, and to process other information into something that most will recognize.

Problem is, many of our Templates have enough of the instruction code that it will make your head spin if you're not clear on what it does. lol