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I already asked Anna, and (suprisingly) she didn’t know, but told me to ask on the forums.

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Try this, http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-wikiHow-User-Information-Box-(UIB)

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Make sure to create the template in the Template namespace. The way to start your template in the Template namespace is by typing [[Template:Template Name]] on a random page and then previewing it, but not publishing. The article creator creates the page in the main “How to” namespace, which you do not want at all. Hope this helps.