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How To Use Pipe Symbol In a MediaWiki Template
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Summary
You can't typically use the | symbol in a template as standard text because it gets interpreted as a field separator.
The way around this, however, is to create a template named Template:! and to just put the | symbol in it. You can then use "{{!}}" instead of "|".
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