On 20 August 2011 21:01, Jay Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
+25. Â I had to pull the book citation template out of Wikipedia to use it on a Wikia site, and it was a 2 hour process.
Yes. Speaking as a MediaWiki tarball user (at work), this doesn't require a fork (as Fred contemplates) - it just needs an extra tarball, or maybe an XML export file of importable templates, or maybe both (necessary extensions plus template XML).
This discussion has also come up on one of the technical lists - a "light" MW tarball, and a tarball with the extensions one would expect to see on Wikipedia included. Including a standard template set would fit right in with that.
This discussion may belong on wikitech-l or mediawiki-l ...
- d.
I'm thinking about including anything routinely used as either as an extension, stylesheet, or required program which is needed to make an import from Wikipedia display properly. For example the timeline extension and its required Ploticus program. In short all the things which throw a content oriented user into programing mode. Some of these things might not be possible. Shared hosting plays a role in this matter.
Fred