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Revision as of 13:38, 17 September 2020
, 13:38, 17 September 2020→Setting up for advanced template(s) import
===Setting up for advanced template(s) import===
====Robelbox====
Importing the Robelbox, or other, templates on mediawiki is tricky [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/678626/where-can-i-get-templates-for-mediawiki], at least the first time that you do it. Once you've got everything up and running to support templates (see above):
#Import the template on the wiki using Special:Import, set the interwiki prefix to something that designates the source, like en for English Wikipedias.
I did this for the [https://ts.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Robelbox Robelbox template], which I got from https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Export, however, it wasn't useable and I couldn't work out why.I ultimately deleted Robelbox, having found better boxes (see below) but I expect that my process for fixing the later issues would have sorted out the problems here too. ====Fixing Template Issues====
I got Template:Box-round from mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Box-round. It required installation of TemplateStyles, which in turn might need JsonConfig:
Note that this overwrote Template:Tl, Template:TNT, and others that I resolved issues with previously.
Now a new set of issues has emerged. These include JsonConfig problems (again), and template loops (which I think are coming from Module:Template translation), and missing dependencies (e.g, Template:Mbox and Module:Color contrast). Moreover, most of the templates render the if and other conditional logic statements, rather then executing them. I installed ParserFunctions (which I should have done before) and it solved everything outstanding!
In mediawiki/installs
$wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true;
====The Front Page==== To do the front page, I copied the source of [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Main_page&action=edit Template:Main page] from mediawiki to a page (called Test to start), and created [Template:Main page/styles.css] using [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Main_page/styles.css&action=edit mediawiki's code]. Then I rejigged the contents of the page! Old instructions[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:R1j08xhjgrtkpj6q] suggest using [[Special:ExpandTemplate]] on mediawiki's wiki, with the input text <nowiki>{{:MediaWiki}}</nowiki>. But this isn't necessary as the template doesn't need expanding in its current (at the time of writing) incarnation. Naturally, the page works well on MobileFrontend.
==Update Linux==
