MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Tasks/Feature wishlist/Template bundling

How to select the templates required by non-WMF wikis? edit

  • Offer the user a default base selection with check boxes to select/deselect the various options. Options load/unload dependencies, e.g. other templates, Scribunto modules, Lua modules, JavaScript, CSS, etc.
  • Imported into target wiki via XML.
  • This is a huge task on its own so don't start including every other piece of global bits and pieces as well.
  • How to prevent overwriting templates and styles the wiki may already have in place?

The basic templates edit

  • reflist
  • infobox
  • navbox
  • mbox - and sub-templates
  • disambiguation
  • db - delete because
  • various for licensing reasons