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@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]
 [[!if test="enabled(template)"
 then="This wiki has templates **enabled**."
 else="This wiki has templates **disabled**."
@@ -39,15 +40,19 @@ large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template:
 
 ## Creating a template
 
-To create a template, simply add a template directive to a page, and page will
-provide a link that can be used to create the template. The template is a
-regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` directory.
+To create a template, simply add a template directive to a page, and the 
+page will provide a link that can be used to create the template. The template
+is a regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` subdirectory inside
+the source directory of the wiki.
 
 The template uses the syntax used by the [[!cpan HTML::Template]] perl
 module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its
 documentation for the full syntax, but all you really need to know are a
 few things:
 
+* Each parameter you pass to the template directive will generate a 
+  template variable. There are also some pre-defined variables like PAGE
+  and BASENAME.
 * To insert the value of a variable, use `<TMPL_VAR variable>`. Wiki markup
   in the value will first be converted to html.
 * To insert the raw value of a variable, with wiki markup not yet converted
@@ -60,7 +65,7 @@ few things:
 Here's a sample template:
 
         <span class="infobox">
-        Name: [[<TMPL_VAR raw_name>]]<br />
+        Name: \[[<TMPL_VAR raw_name>]]<br />
         Age: <TMPL_VAR age><br />
         <TMPL_IF NAME="color">
         Favorite color: <TMPL_VAR color><br />