Earlier, I wrote:
But how to deal with templates we want to include? Is
there
a programmatic way to mirror all the templates we need once
a day automatically and to semi-protect our copies of those
templates?
Even though nobody has responded to the above question, I have
another question :-)
When bringing stuff over from Wikipedia, how could we prevent
most links from showing up as red links like they do in many
annex.wikia.com articles[1]?
We could mirror some or all of Wikipedia (and possibly images);
but I bet it'd be better to somehow programmatically make red links
repoint to enwiki if an article of that name on enwiki exists.
And I bet it'd be preferable to do this at render time instead
of modifying the stored wikitext, so that it'd be easier to move
the stuff back to Wikipedia if necessary.
Cheers,
-j
^ [1]. e.g.
http://annex.wikia.com/wiki/Aarakocra