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Just let many other people, I have been trying to copy certain articles from Wikipedia to my own wiki. So far this has been on disaster after another. I only recently learned about the template system behind Wiki and export function.

Whatever I try to do, it always ends with an error or something not working, so you can imagine I'm getting a bit desperate now, as I just don't know how to get this working.. I have been trying to copy 1 certain page about a band to my own wiki (bacause I want to have the original layout), tried copying the source, tried copying templates, but in the end it still looks messed up! Hope something is able to help me with this.

Please provide specific steps to reproduce and specific info about the problems that you're facing. "something not working" is too vague to help.

I have tried to copy the source text/code from a Wikipedia article and paste it into the same article on my site. You can then see it's missing templates. I've downloaded the Template: xml file and uploaded them on my site. The layout still isn't working properly.

I have tried to add 2 extensions, Scribunto and ParserFunctions, in the hope that things would get better. Unfortunately adding those to the LocalSettings.php will only produce errors within the article of giving me database erros when looking up an article (this mostly happen with ParserFunctions). It just seems like copying an article and uploading templates isn't enough.

You have to import Lua modules too.