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Welcome to WikiProject Transwiki, a WikiProject for helping with the transwiki process outside of the Wikimedia family. This is done by explaining how to import and export articles, linking to help with MediaWiki software, prepping templates for use outside of Wikipedia, listing available resources (including editors willing to help), and much more.

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Before we begin

It should be noted that if you wish to have the below on a wiki that you administrate for or likewise, you must get the parser function available here or this will not work.

Main goals

Template "pack" – a pack of commonly used templates that is pure wikicode and ready to be imported via xml file. We'll need to identify which templates should go into this basic pack. Some templates might require converting into pure-wiki table code, or for simplification.
MediaWiki "pack" – similar to the template pack, a bunch of MediaWiki namespace pages that are formatted for general and easy use for most other wikis
How to export – Expanding on the export/import guide, which so far is very minimal.
A general technical guide on how to adapt articles for use on another wiki
Establish other resources to aid the reuse of Wikipedia content

Useful files and templates

MediaWiki files

/MediaWiki:Common.css - Click edit and select all text. Disregard appearance when viewed as a normal page. Should work on most installations of MediaWiki. Will import most of the css styling for the class attributes that Wikipedia uses (especially useful for classes in wikitables). Last updated: April 17, 2008
/MediaWiki:Common.js - Click edit and select all text. Disregard appearance when viewed as a normal page. Same as above, but for some common javascript. Also includes useful bug fixes that might not be fixed in the current version of MediaWiki. Last updated: April 17, 2008

Common.js doesn't seem to be loaded for MediaWiki 1.7.1, I got collapsable tables to work by cutting and pasting that section of code into MediaWiki:Monobook.js

Templates

These templates can normally be used as-is

Template:!! – Vital for most other templates to work. Recommend full protection when used on other wikis.
Template:- – Not as vital, but still highly used.
Template:·
Template:•
Template:Ndash
Template:Mdash
Template:Nowrap
Template:Nowraplinks – Needs the "nowraplinks" class in MediaWiki:Common.css to work.
Template:Main
Template:Tl
Template:Tlx
Template:Infobox Film – Requires transwiki infobox to be installed
Template:Unsigned
Template:Warning

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External links

How to install template infobox in mediawiki @ ETCwiki

Mediawiki extension packets

Debian package Mediawiki-extensions
Ubuntu package Mediawiki-extensions
TurnKey MediaWiki preinstalled minimal Ubuntu OS including popular extensions
Unofficial bundles of the extensions in the Wikimedia SVN repository can sometimes be found on the toolserver. These bundles are arbitrary snapshots, so keep in mind they might contain a broken version of the extension (just as if you load them from the developer's repository directly).