Thread:Mathmagician/@comment-4740457-20120807161048/@comment-4674838-20120808060245

(This might be something of a sidenote) There is nothing particularly special about templates. "Template" is a namespace in the MediaWiki software, but everything you can do with templates you can do with normal wiki pages, and vice versa. For example, on Test2, I've put a bunch of wiki code. And then I just transcluded that page onto Test4. Remember this: everything you can do with templates, you can do with normal wiki pages. The "Template" namespace isn't magical, it's just named that way for organizational purposes.

So, the question should be reworded: "can an image be used to frame content on a wiki?" The answer is, yes, with careful CSS work.