On 17/01/06, Terry Auspitz mediawiki-l@clubjuggle.com wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply. I tried the Special:Export option and was moderately successful, but I did run into trouble bringing the templates over. Looking at http://www.wikitography.org/wiki/Template:H:f for example should give you an idea of the trouble I'm encountering.
Yeah, transfering complex templates is a pain; I'm almost tempted to come up with some kind of specialised template export utility, since people will insist on doing crazy nesting etc. (I was already pondering this because everyone wants to copy en.Wikipedia's funky Portal designs...) Bob knows how you could automatically enumerate dependencies on other templates determined by built-in variables or parameters, though.
It would also help if people didn't insist on using stupidly cryptic abbrev'd names for all their templates - even the ones only designed to be used in one other template - but I guess that really is too much to ask!
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]