I had bought mediawikicookbook.com and put a wiki up on it with specifically this idea... I never got time to do it and let the domain expire a couple of days ago. I'd be up for putting it back up and hosting it if a few others wanted to help build out a cookbook of templates... I specifically was looking at a lot of Semantic MediaWiki templates. Interested? Ping me.. On Apr 27, 2012, at 8:38 AM, John W. Foster wrote: > I'm wondering if there has been any suggestion to set up a template > sharing area in Mediawiki, or all Mediawiki based sites similar to > instant commons. I have noticed that there are a LOT of us , me included > that use the templates from other sites. I certainly don't have the > skill to write them myself so I usually just copy & paste them. However > if they are upgraded by the authors, I don't usually get the updates. It > seems this would be especially helpful to those maintaining translated > sites. I realize this would not work for all templates as it doesn't for > all media in commons. I use some original media & some from instant > commons. Template sharing should work just as easily, & it would assist > in growing Wikipedia more quickly. > Any thoughts??