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] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
