How To Add Infobox Template Wiki

Note: This tutorial is not for novice users. Importing templates into your third-political party wiki from Wikipedia is often times a lengthy and challenging process. Some of Wikipedia's templates require multiple layers of underlying "support" or "utility" templates. You lot may have to repeat the export/import procedure several times. The instructions have non had substantial updates since 2016, and much has changed since, and then expect problems with these.

This tutorial outlines steps to import infoboxes used by English language Wikipedia.

Prerequisites [edit]

Before using this tutorial, you should familiarize yourself with the MediaWiki features it will be utilizing:

one thousand:Help:Export
m:Help:Import
Assist:Editing pages
Help:Templates
Manual:Using content from Wikipedia
Wikipedia infoboxes
Designing infoboxes

You must also have these extensions installed, set and working:

Extension:ParserFunctions
Extension:Scribunto
Extension:Wikibase
Extension:TemplateStyles

Training [edit]

CSS [edit]

Either manually create or Consign/Import the CSS from the source wiki; e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Mutual.css.
(this is optional; importing may be necessary to properly display some templates).

Note: This is required for virtually infobox templates, including the base infobox template itself. Use Ctrl+F to help you search.

JS [edit]

Either manually create or Export/Import the JS from the source wiki; e.one thousand., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js.
(this is optional; importing may be necessary for some template functionality).

Extensions [edit]

required

Extension:ParserFunctions
Extension:Scribunto
Extension:Wikibase since ver. 1.31 (otherwise the error occurs: Lua fault in Module:WikidataIB at line 719: endeavor to alphabetize field 'wikibase' (a cipher value))
Extension:TemplateStyles

recommended

Extension:InputBox
Extension:TemplateData
Extension:JsonConfig#Supporting_Wikimedia_templates - Some templates need this.

Commons Templates [edit]

if copying templates from commons, either Special:Consign/Special:Import these pages or create them manually in your local wiki:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Lang
https://eatables.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Editsection-brackets

Steps [edit]

Step 1: Determine info boxes needed [edit]

Find all infoboxes used on English Wikipedia at w:Category:Infobox templates
If there's an info box being used in an article you lot'd like to import:
- Visit the page'southward edit screen
- Scroll to the bottom and find the appropriate page proper name for the infobox template you'd similar to import

Step ii: Consign Wikipedia templates [edit]

Go to English Wikipedia's Special:Export page and enter the total page names of the infobox templates from step 1.
For your get-go infobox to piece of work, you'll also need to include the master infobox template, Template:Infobox
Exist sure to check the Include templates checkbox to include other necessary templates
Note that required templates may likewise include Scribunto modules in the module namespace
Most templates put their documentation in a subpage, so you may desire to include /medico subpage for each template you're importing
- Example: for Template:Infobox you should also download Template:Infobox/doc

Step 3: Export Wikipedia Modules [edit]

Many of templates used in Wikipedia, peculiarly the collapsible navigation templates, utilize Scribunto. Without these modules installed, the templates will produce lua error messages. Please expand the listing beneath of modules required for inboxes that are needed.

The following is a listing of at to the lowest degree some modules that yous should export from English Wikipedia to an XML file. Just cut and paste this listing into the list of files to be exported:

w:Module:Citation
w:Module:Hatnote
w:Module:Unsubst
w:Module:Sidebar
due west:Module:Message_box
w:Module:Navbox
west:Module:Arguments
w:Module:Yesno
westward:Module:Authority_control
westward:Module:Infobox
w:Module:Navbar

w:Module:InfoboxImage

westward:Module:Check_for_unknown_parameters

w:Module:If_empty

Step 4: Import infobox templates and Modules [edit]

Get to your wiki'south Special:Import page and select the file y'all created from the export in pace 2.

The modules you lot exported in step iii volition Not import correctly unless yous first have successfully installed Scribunto, which will create the namespace for "modules." Later Scribunto is installed, the modules should import properly. Afterward, if yous see templates that give a lua fault bulletin, try to identify the missing module that must exist imported.

Since many templates incorporate images, it is helpful to change LocalSettings.php to permit instant commons import of images:

                                $wgUseInstantCommons                =                true                ;

Footstep 5: De-Wikipediaify [edit]

You may desire to review all of the files that y'all just imported for references to Wikipedia pages.
You can certainly leave them in place - and are encouraged to update them as links to the appropriate Wikipedia article (possibly using interwiki links)
Pay special attention to categories, which may exist buried in the template's lawmaking, and may include reference to Wikipedia
- Again, you can get out them, but you may wish to update them to your wiki's proper name or categorization policy

Step 6: Additional templates needed [edit]

Once your import is complete, yous should check the template on your wiki to encounter if it functions correctly
A helpful step is to once more refer to the edit folio's templates list
- If in that location are redlinks, go back to step ii and repeat this process to import the missing templates

Pace vii: Savor success [edit]

That's information technology! Savor your infoboxes!