Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transwiki

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] Starting

I've been thinking about making something like this for a while, and with this recent post from an editor over at the Wikia Annex, I've been inspired. It seems the Annex now lets non-admins preform article imports, allowing anyone to preform a transwiki. There is, of course, other hurdles, which is why a WikiProject for the effort is going to come in handy. -- Ned Scott 05:17, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

I haven't updated it in a while, but User:Ned Scott/transwiki is what I have so far for notes about my own experiences with the transwiki process. -- Ned Scott 05:32, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm stretched a bit thin on some tasks on Wikipedia, with my available free time (the amount I can reasonably give to Wikipedia, that is). But in the next two days I am off from work, and will be able to format the page some more, giving people an idea of what I had in mind. Feel free to beat me to it, and add any of your own ideas of how such a project might work. -- Ned Scott 04:29, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion of interest

Please see here.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:26, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requirements To Import To Another Wiki

taken from Template talk:Navbox


I ran into some trouble trying to figure out how to import the Navbox template into my own wiki. More importantly I spent more time that I should have needed to figuring it out. The core content can be easily exported and imported using the special pages. Remaining requirements (as I found) are two extensions, ImageMap and ParserFunctions. I think it would be beneficial to others if a small amount of documentation was written on How To Enable Navbox On Your Own Wiki or something of that nature. Here is a start

Template:Navbox
MediaWiki:Common.js
MediaWiki:Common.css

144.223.18.102 (talk) 21:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Imagemap is actually not a required extension. Double check the code; it's only use is at Template:Navbox/doc, which has the transcluded template which shows the little red lock in the top right hand corner. Otherwise, it is not a necessity. --Izno (talk) 23:34, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I think this is a very important topic to document well. It seems that wikipedia is setting the standard for high-quality wiki content. It is difficult to achieve similar quality without all the Navbox/Infobox-y support. I don't know enough about how to get those things working in non-wikipedia wikis, but am eager to learn from this page as it grows. Keep up the good work.

154.5.119.172 (talk) 15:49, 29 May 2008 (UTC)