Template talk:Reflist/Transwiki guide

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Need help with what you mean on this. I have been exporting templates for use on our private wiki instance using the Special pages -> Export pages and export both the template or module and the doc. There are two parts to this instruction I am not clear on.

1. The term at the top of the column "Edit summary" which contains several of these

2. What is copy from [[:en:Template:Reflist]]?

3. How to you use the "copy from"? I tested a new page and placed this on it. thought I might be doing something like Subst but it just created a link back to the Wikipedia version.

Is this some extra step above using Export Pages or will doing that suffice?

On an external Wiki do I need to bring in the version as some are quite huge or should they be fine with just the current?— Preceding unsigned comment added by WikimeSteve (talk • contribs)

Those are for attribution purposes and recommended to be added to edit summary before saving the page. The interwiki will work for Wikimedia projects but in your case copy pasting the url of the permalink into the edit summary should suffice, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Reflist&oldid=794499661 for template reflist. If you use Special:Export and select to export the full history then that should cover the attribution.--Lam-ang (talk) 07:17, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 8 July 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus. I can't see any consensus opposing the move or supporting the move. (closed by non-admin page mover) Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 21:04, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

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Template:Reflist/Transwiki guide → Help:Importing Reflist – This isn't a template or even a documentation page explaining the usage of the template, but a help page explaining how to import it. This is better placed in the actual help namespace. Gonnym (talk) 07:11, 8 July 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. NightWolf1223 <Howl at me•My hunts> 12:50, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Comment: Why should this even be on the English Wikipedia? Wouldn't this be better suited on mediawikiwiki? Proposing to import into mediawikiwiki then convert this into a soft redirect. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 14:10, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

As an active contributor and admin on MediaWiki.org, I don't think this really belongs there either. It's about how to copy code from enwiki to other wikis, not about generalities of how the software works. Weak oppose moving to help namespace on enwiki, as this is currently the title format Template:Transwiki guide expects whereas putting it in help namespace would be breaking completely new ground. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:52, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.