Hi everyone, I'm sure (reasonably) that this topic has probably come up before, but I can't seem to find it in the forum menus. I'm a writer and I've been using MediaWiki to create a custom Wiki for my book series.
I've successfully installed the latest version on my server, and I've built a basic site from it.
I've been reading up on how Wikipedia does it (which is what I've been modeling my version after since it's so well-known). They use templates (particularly of interest are the "infobox" templates) to maintain consistency.
I've managed to re-create that look by forcing a table to display there, but it's wildly inefficient. I've been trying to set it up on my server to work the same, but I'm not have any luck. I tried just going to Wikipedia and exporting their infobox templates and importing them into my Wiki so that I could modify the code to fit what I need, but that was a disaster.
Does anyone have any tips on this? Or a good resources that walks through the process? I'm pretty technically proficient, but I don't know very much about MediaWiki. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!