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We intend to maintain a number of "article packages" in this way in the [[wiki articles packages]] article.
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Revision as of 07:15, 14 January 2009

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Automatic article export lists

We have a lot of collections of articles which we tend to re-use a lot on many wikis in the field. We don't want to use cross-wiki transclusion because we don't want these wikis to rely on external content for their day-to-day use, so we needed a simple way to maintain these collections and export them when needed.

We've been working on the Packages extension for a while to solve this problem, but in the mean time I created Template:Export which offers a simple interface to the Special:Export functionality. Here's an example,

This wikitext

{{export:
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Produces this export button

We intend to maintain a number of "article packages" in this way in the wiki article packages article.