Manual:Importing Wikipedia infoboxes tutorial

This tutorial outlines steps to import infoboxes used by Wikipedia.

Prerequisites
Before using this tutorial, you should familiarize yourself with the MediaWiki features it will be utilizing:
 * meta:Help:Export
 * meta:Help:Import
 * Help:Editing pages
 * Help:Templates
 * Manual:Using content from Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia infoboxes
 * Designing infoboxes

You must also have these extensions installed, setup and working:
 * Extension:ParserFunctions
 * Extension:Scribunto

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

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

MetaNamespace
In, set the MetaNamespace to the same as the source wiki. This will be the canonical value used for the Project namespace. e.g. on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces it is Wikipedia.

Namespaces
Make sure the destination wiki has the same namespaces as the source wiki by adding those with an id >= 100 to your  file.
 * one way to get a list of the namespaces on the source wiki is to use the API -> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces; e.g.

Extensions
required
 * Extension:ParserFunctions
 * Extension:Scribunto

recommended
 * Extension:ExpandTemplates
 * Extension:InputBox
 * Extension:TemplateData
 * Extension:WikimediaMessages

Commons Templates
if copying templates from commons, either Special:Export/Special:Import these pages or create them manually in your local wiki:
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Lang
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Editsection-brackets

Step 1: Determine info boxes needed

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

Step 2: Export Wikipedia templates

 * Go to Wikipedia's Special:Export page and enter the full page names of the infobox templates from step 1.
 * For your first infobox to work, you'll also need to include the master infobox template,
 * Be sure to check the Include templates checkbox to include other necessary templates
 * Note that required templates may also include Scribunto modules in the module namespace
 * Most templates put their documentation in a subpage, so you may want to include  subpage for each template you're importing
 * Example: for  you should also download

Step 3: Import infobox templates

 * Go to your wiki's Special:Import page and select the file you created from the export in step 2.

Step 4: De-Wikipediaify

 * You may want to review all of the files that you 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 be buried in the template's code, and may include reference to Wikipedia
 * Again, you can leave them, but you may wish to update them to your wiki's name or categorization policy

Step 5: Additional templates needed

 * Once your import is complete, you should check the template on your wiki to see if it functions correctly
 * A helpful step is to once again refer to the edit page's templates list
 * If there are redlinks, go back to step 2 and repeat this process to import the missing templates

Step 6: Enjoy success
That's it! Enjoy your infoboxes!