[Mediawiki-l] Installing a template (??)

[Brianna Laugher]

2008/9/3 John van V. <john.van.v at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> "installing a template mediawiki" produces about 40,000 pages on google, yet
> none tells me how to install a template (??) least of all the template
> manual on wikimedia.
>
> Can someone please point me to text telling me how it works?

If there is a template on Wikipedia you want to use on your wiki:

METHOD 1
1. Go to the template page (if you find it in an article like {{foo}}
or {{foo|.....}}, type "template:foo" in the search box).
2. Click edit.
3. Copy all the text from the edit box into a template page with
whatever name you want on your wiki.
4. Keeping the original edit box open, scroll down and look for a list
under a heading "Pages transcluded onto the current version of this
page:". Any template here will also need to be copied to your wiki.
5. As a minimum you will very likely need to install the extension
ParserFunctions.
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions> Less likely,
but other extensions you may need are Cite, Imagemap and EasyTimeline.
See the full list of Wikipedia-installed extensions here:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version>

METHOD 2

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