Hi,
I was thinking last night that it might be cool if there was a kind of "template repository" for people to copy templates from for their own MediaWiki. Copying them from Wikipedia etc while possible tends to be very nasty and/or ugly due to extreme nestedness.
Actually, with the Help: pages on mediawiki.org, I had an idea that these would eventually ship by default with MediaWiki. Is that still the plan? I think it's a good idea - plenty of people may never come back to mediawiki.org after installing, and it's just so convenient to already have those pages in your wiki. And the special:export instructions are ok but kind of a pain (you have to upload the images yourself? oh and enable SVGs? joy).
Anyway, would it be OK to set up a PD template repository on mediawiki.org, and if so, what method(s) could be used for distributing it? 1- shipped with MW by default 2- extension???? 3- special:export
Could an extension avoid the need for manually uploading images? (Or, is there any prospect that files will work properly with special:export?)
thanks Brianna