B. M. Whealton wrote:
I created the page Template:Cite_book I went here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Cite_book and tried View Source, and copies that into the new page I created, as that was what the documentation said to do, create the Template like creating an article. It wasn't happy with that at all. When I then tried to use {{cite book}} it replaced that with a whole bunch of content. I didn't see how to get to Special:Export for that particular page. Will it give me something different? No, I just tried that. I entered the page that I wanted exported: Template:Cite_book and it did create an export file. I then imported it to my wiki and tried to use {{cite book}} and got a whole mess of characters showing up that was a mess. I'm doing something wrong. I cannot even find the pages that I uploaded. They don't show up on all pages when I go there from Special pages on my wiki. Bruce
Go to Special:Export, and export the template choosing to also export any templates used by this page. Also make sure you have installed ParserFunctions extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions
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