2011/8/20 Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]>:
> On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes
> to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been
> defined on that installation. The English Wikipedia (which I am most
> familiar with) has many very usefull templates, especially the
> {{citeFoo}} templates, but numerous others as well. Trying to 'import'
> one is a bit of a pain though. Many templates depend on other
> templates, and it is not often very clear how (as a fun exercise for
> the reader, try to import the {{convert}} template to a new wiki, and
> see how easy it is!).
It is being rewritten as an extension now. The Babel extension already
exists to replace {{babel}}. For some templates that's probably the
right way.
It would also be much, much easier to translate them.
> I was wondering if it might be a good idea to
> include a standard template library to Wikimedia installations,
> containing a set of utility templates along with the Wikimedia
> distribution.
Just today i thought about having a little standard template library
for wikis in RTL languages. A template that produces stuff like <span
dir="ltr">{{{1}}}</span>. It should be easy.
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