On 25 August 2011 10:47, Andre Engels <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
Well… no, generally not. Check for instance {{flagicon}}. There is no
way Special:Export could recognize it is required to export all 2556
(!) templates in [[Special:Prefixindex/Template:Country data]].
Of course, this does help for “simpler” template systems.
-- Petr Kadlec / Mormegil
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