On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Petr Kadlec <[email protected]> wrote:


> You mean like… checking the “Include templates” box on Special:Export?
>

I guess that's what I mean, it's been a few years since I last saw
Special:Export - long enough that I have no idea whether that box is from
before or after that time.


> But the problem is more difficult than that. MediaWiki has no chance
> of knowing which templates are “necessary for it to work properly”, it
> can only detect those that are _actually used_ in a specific use case
> (as you say, those which are shown on the edit page), which is just a
> subset of those required in general.
>

No, but it does at least mean that exporting and importing any single
template should be possible in a very short time indeed.

-- 
André Engels, [email protected]
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