14 January 2009

This is a blog item that needs to be converted to the new Bliki format

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: News Help Sandbox }}          Produces this export button

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