Chau Chee Yang wrote:

Hi,

I have setup a wiki family that use a single source of mediawiki for multiple wikis database.

To avoid reinvent the wheels and follow the wiki community standard. I import some nice templates from wikipedia to my own wikis.

This is great as I don't need to create my own templates. However, I forced to import the templates to each wiki database in the family or else it won't work. It will become a nightmare to maintain the templates when my wiki grows.

Is there any ways to share the templates among wikis? Something like a meta wiki that able to share out the template for other wiki database to use.

Even better, if there is a way to use the template directly from wikipedia.org without export/import so I don't need to maintain my own templates but enjoy using the templates from community.

Thank you.

Best Regards, Chau Chee Yang

There's the scary transclusion config, but see its drawbacks. There's an interwiki transclusion branch which improved things, but it has not been merged yet.