Talk:Template repository

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this is a great idea. I would love a basic icon package (like Warning, Info, Tip, Help... e.g. )

Let me know if you find something and where I can get this and provide icons i created. Thanks Tilo 19:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Tilo, you can provide icons you created at Wikimedia Commons or http://openclipart.org/. --pfctdayelise 12:24, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I can't help with this, but it is a great idea. I've been trying to figure out templates for weeks. --Kelly Hughes

I'm currently trying to copy over the artist infobox template(s) from wikipedia, anybody have advice on how to speed this up or do it correctly? i feel like i'm just copy/pasting tonnes of material and i fear if i miss a single line of code that the whole thing will be messed up, and i'll have no idea how to fix it! One plus however, I only have one or two other templates active on my wiki, so i could possibly package it all together for upload. --Terrestri 03:38, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] push

Any updates?

Any work on this issue?

--62.128.18.198 13:40, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I also like this idea. There is too much work to be done just to get simple templates working on another wiki!

[edit] Name conflict

I love this idea too. Ideally, the simple template system should use the same names as some of the existing templates, so that when you copy over help pages, these basic templates are sufficient to make them work. However, we don't want to conflict with the existing templates, and probably don't want to destroy them.

Perhaps another approach is to build the simple templates with unique, but reasonable names (e.g. Tag, NOT Simple_ambox). Further, we can edit the help pages on mediawiki to use these simple templates, rather than their more complicated cousins. This way, copying the help files and the templates produces a complete, working, default wiki.