The software was easy to install but there seems to be a significant learning curve setting it up. I just wanted to do a "local news wiki" for our small town. Was hoping I could clone the WikiNews style but it looks like there are a bunch of templates, etc. to copy. Is there easy way to copy this layout?
Am 28.08.2005 um 03:19 schrieb John Ellenberger:
The software was easy to install but there seems to be a significant learning curve setting it up. I just wanted to do a "local news wiki" for our small town.
Isn't there enough space in WikiNews for such local things?
Was hoping I could clone the WikiNews style but it looks like there are a bunch of templates, etc. to copy. Is there easy way to copy this layout?
what you need is a copy of the database, but only import the template namespace
http://download.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/ Us the pages_current.xml.gz if you have the latest mediawiki running or cur_table.sql.gz if you are running 1.4 (am I correct about this?)
about the skins, there's help on meta.wikimedia.org
ciao, tom -- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:TomK32 http://www.tomk32.de
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