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).

Could an extension avoid the need for manually uploading images? (Or, is there any prospect that files will work properly with special:export?)

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 -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

It's not really a big issue. Not everything has to be an answer for all people. I would hate to think we would hold back anything based on the limited base we can support. That means we are never better than our lowest common denominator. ---Mike -----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 4:26 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Template and (icon) image packages - extensions? Hoi, Sharing templates is a wish I have had for a long time. The biggest issue with such templates is language or better the lack of support for languages. Without this templates are useless for any language except for the original language. There are solutions for this, but they exist outside of MediaWiki but can be integrated in MediaWiki as has already been demonstrated. Thanks, GerardM On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de> wrote: tar(gz) I _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

2008/11/6 Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de>de>: If I organise a bundle of, say, 20 templates, will you help/teach me to set up such scripts for an extension and/or create Special:ImportBundle?