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Wikipedia templates license?

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Summary by Biologically

The license confirmed. Using export-import special functions for easier implementation.

Biologically (talkcontribs)
  1. Are Wikipedia templates also in Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license? If yes, please tell me what is the best way to attribute - within template or by creating a page listing all templates copied from Wikipedia?
  2. Also I found that in most occasions one template (in Wikipedia) is dependent on multiple other templates. So, if someone is copying a template, he/she has to copy multiple templates that it is dependent on ... and then other multiple templates that those are dependent on ... and so on. Is there any better way to make this process easier?
TheDJ (talkcontribs)

1: Yes they are. Attribution is a bit hard in this case, but you can use Special:Export, or use a link to the revision you are copying and put that in the history. Additionally you can put refernces in the /doc page of a template. etc. etc.

2: Special:Export, Special:Import (both need to be enabled however).

Biologically (talkcontribs)

Thanks a lot.