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MediaWiki 1.24.1 PHP 5.4.36-0+deb7u3 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.5.40-0+wheezy1

Hi,

I'm trying to pull the introductions from some Wikipedia articles into a private wiki. I've installed the Labeled Section Transclusion Extension and set iw_trans and iw_local to true for the wikipedia entry. Then, in the appropriate pages, I've included something like:

{{#lsth:wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation}}

But, instead of transcluding the content, all I get is a link the article.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to pull in Wikipedia content (it needn't necessarily be kept up to date).

Have you set Manual:$wgEnableScaryTranscluding to true?

It's possible that Labeled Section Transclusion doesn't support cross-wiki transclusion. Does {{wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation}} work correctly?

A cross-wiki transclusion feature was proposed in 2008, but it is not yet implemented.

Cross-wiki transclusion ("scary transcluding") exists, but is not performant and is disabled on most MediaWiki installations. As I noted above, it's likely that Labeled Section Transclusion doesn't support cross-wiki transclusion at all.