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Expand Up @@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ folder in `store/` and creates one
the attribution on the template page itself. Installing is optional and can be
repeated; an existing template page is not overwritten without asking.

Idea, not decided (10/14/2026): offering updates. Like Wikipedia's templates, installed
templates become ordinary wiki pages, and boards will edit them, so a fix made in the
repository later would not reach a board that installed the set earlier. Installing a newer
zip could offer to update each template page whose live text is still exactly what the
previous install created, and leave every page that was edited on the board alone. That
needs a record of what each install wrote, for example a checksum per page. The update is
saved as a new version, so it can be compared and undone like any edit.

## What goes in

Only templates that work as plain wiki text with parameters:
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