Pipes (|) are used in:

• Help:Links#Piped links - to change the display text of a link
• Help:Links#Pipe trick - automatically provide the display text "Foo" to a link to "Foo (bar)" for example.
• Help:Templates#Parameters - specify parameters or default values to templates.
• Help:Tables - make wikitable syntax

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