On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Siebrand Mazeland s.mazeland@xs4all.nl wrote:
As far as I know there is something called "Scary transclusion"[1],[2]. "Enable scary transclusion (transcluding from another wiki)." It has to be enabled on a per wiki basis. I have no clue what it's current status is, and if there is any experience with it in larger MediaWiki environments.
It's used on Wikia. http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Scratchpad:Template_demo shows some of the uses and bugs. The caching problem that Chad mentioned is the main reason we don't make more use of it. Also, parameters aren't passed to the wiki using the template which limits its usefulness.
Angela