2008/9/3 John van V. john.van.v@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