Templates

[dark dagger]

Hello, I am new here and I recently started a new wiki for my friends and I to record our friendgroups' experiences and things. We would want to have a wiki that looks professional, which requires a subtantial amount of templates which our wiki currently has none. Ideally we would want templates like those from Wikipedia.

How should we approach this? Is the only way to go the tedious task of importing each template one by one, even this I do not know exactly where to start. I would appreciate any form of support, thank you.

Link to our wiki: https://9memers.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

[deep grove]

Hi there and welcome!
There's Dev Wiki (https://dev.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze_Developers_Wiki) that has a number of templates that can easily be imported to your wiki.
Using templates from Wikipedia is usually advised against as they're often times very complicated and have lots of dependencies that cause them to not work on your wiki unless you really know what you're doing

[dark dagger]

Sounds good, I'll start there

[deep grove]

All the best for your Wiki!

[dark dagger]

Follow-up: I attempted importing infoboxes from the dev wiki (example shown in image) and I'm having trouble getting them to show right, I'm probably missing something quite obvious here but please forgive me.

[wispy jolt]

Wikipedia uses complicated templates and modules, so much so that it looks like an excessive family tree. The best thing is not to import, but to create a template from scratch. :/

The closest I could get it to work was on my wiki, and it did take me a while. (Please note that I copied this from eswikipedia, which has a slightly minor complication.) https://ucronias.miraheze.org/wiki/Frente_Amplio_Progresista_(Presidente_López_Obrador)

Another option is to go to older versions of the template history, copy the code, and adapt it for your wiki. That's what I did as well. ej:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_company&oldid=12277730

[iron oriole]

You also need to import Module:Documentation and Template:Infobox

and probably some other things but I think the error messages are self-explanatory

[acoustic sundial]

He clearly states that it was imported from [[Dev:]]

[lament zinc]

https://dev.miraheze.org/wiki/

[acoustic sundial]

You may need to enable the TemplateStyles extension at Special:ManageWiki/extensions#mw-section-parserhooks on your wiki for this template to work properly.

I have imported several templates and modules for you

[wispy jolt]

I'm sorry, I didn't see it clearly.

[acoustic sundial]

And please Copy the content from Dev:MediaWiki:Common.css to your Mediawiki:Common.css

[dark dagger]

Thank you so much for all your comments, I'll try doing that!

[dark dagger]

It works great now, thanks!