User talk:Aislabie

Hello, I've recently set up my own Wiki to keep track of a fictional motorsport world but I need some templates to more easily allow me to organise and display information. In particular, templates like 🇬🇧 for flags, as well as templates to do with motorsport season infoboxes and the like. If possible, I would like to import them from Wikipedia, but I looked into how I would do that and became immediately overwhelmed. That's why I'm here looking for an adult!

Many thanks, Aislabie (talk) 19:26, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your question. First of all, there are two types of imports: (1) transwiki and (2) file upload. The former is simpler and easier to process, and involves copying the page revision(s) from the subject page directly from the wiki as specified in the your wiki's local interwiki table. Transwiki imports, like file upload imports, are accessed via Special:Import on your wiki. The latter can also be used, and involves you exporting the subject page(s) from the external wiki using Special:Export and then Special:Import on your wiki. Some things to keep in mind:
 * For templates, you will usually want to check the box to "include templates," to include any template dependencies required for the template to function;
 * You will also want to make sure that you use the exact  from your wiki's local interwiki table for the wiki from which you're importing, mainly to link to the external contributor's user page on the external wiki;
 * You may wish to consider selecting the box to assign contributions locally where the exact same username already exists;
 * For pages or templates with a lot of revisions, or where the total size of an import exceeds 250 MB (or even really 100 MB, in practical terms), you will want to request an import by maintenance script by system administrators on Phabricator;
 * Consider importing only the current revision as alternative to the fourth point, to reduce the total number of revisions;
 * If you want to use transwiki importation on your wiki and the wiki from your wiki's interwiki table isn't listed in the drop-down box, you can request on Phabricator to have that interwiki prefix added to your wiki's  MediaWiki variable.
 * Check Miraheze Template Wiki first before importing from English Wikipedia. It's quite possible the template(s) are already on our template repository and have likely been de-Wikipediaified. As well, as  is a default import source, you should be able to use transwiki importation.
 * Hope that helps,
 * Dmehus (talk) 17:10, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you; I still feel as though I am missing some sort of basic level of understanding to make all this comprehensible to me. I currently have open my wiki's interwiki table, Special:Import and the Template Wiki's flags template - but unfortunately my brain is Swiss cheeseing as soon as I set about doing anything.
 * I'll try sleeping and seeing if I see things a bit clearer then
 * ~ Aislabie (talk) 21:31, 5 December 2020 (UTC)