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This is not a project that is being executed or planned to be executed by anyone at any defined point in time, at least not yet.
This is just an idea
, albeit a very detailed one.
Many of the most notable features of Wikimedia sites are implemented as
templates
and
Scribunto Lua modules
: Wikipedia
Infoboxes
and
citations
, maps, navigation headers on
Wikisource
and
Wikibooks
conjugation tables in Wiktionary
deletion
and
merging procedures
in multiple wikis, and
thousands of others
Even though many of these features are very prominent, there is a significant hurdle to their development and use: their code is stored separately on each wiki. While it gives the community of editors on each wiki the freedom to innovate and develop the templates that it needs, it makes it very inconvenient to collaborate on the development of templates that could be shared across wikis, to translate them, and to keep them up-to-date.
Over the years, there have been several proposals to make templates shared across wikis. Editors have requested this since 2004. On the technical side, there were
Scary Transcluding
Shadow namespaces
, and
Multilingual Templates and Modules
projects. It was also included, without a specific timeline, as
one of the goals of Platform Evolution project
. On the community side, the topic came up multiple times in the
Community Wishlist Surveys
, and received a lot of votes. Despite many discussions, these proposals were never fully implemented.
The problem remains, however, and needs to be resolved, but such a project requires wide organizational and community commitment. This page is an attempt to build such commitment.
In the wiki spirit of "
no ownership
", these pages belong to the community. Feel free to comment, edit, improve, discuss, express objections, etc. The more it is owned by the community, the better it will all be.
Proposed product specification, short version
Proposed product specification, long version
Transition plan
(draft)
Discussion about this project
- Support / Oppose / Express your opinion
Alternative solutions
- how does this proposal relate to other similar proposals
Relationship to strategy
- how does this proposal relate to other long-term plans proposed by the WMF and WM-DE
The status of this project
Other proposals of this kind
edit
meta:Wikifunctions
, also known as Abstract Wikipedia: a different proposal, which includes a global code repository
Template repository
(outdated / deprecated; links back to this page)
Multilingual Templates and Modules
Synchronizer
Multilingual MediaWiki
Requests for comment/Global bits and pieces
Global-Wiki
and
meta:global template
meta:WMDE Technical Wishes/Templates
meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Miscellaneous/Templates translation
- the winning proposal of Community Wishlist Survey 2021.
Related technologies
edit
Help:TemplateData
about
Extension:TemplateData
Extension:Translate
and
Help:Extension:Translate
Global gadgets
and
Extension:Gadgets
Extension:Page Exchange
allows you to package and share Templates, modules, and content
Extension:PageSync
allows you to package and share Templates, modules, widgets, css, javascript, Multi revision Content Slots and files
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Specification
Short version
Full version
Transition plan
(Draft!)
Taxonomy
Discussion
Support / oppose / discuss
Discuss the short specification
Discuss the long specification
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Environment
Project status updates
Alternative solutions
Relationship to strategy
Related projects and proposals
Translatable modules
Abstract Wikipedia / Wikifunctions
Shared Citations
Multilingual Templates and Modules
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Shadow namespaces RFC
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