Maybe you could write a script using the api? -- Husky / Hay
On 1/13/09, Dawson <costel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a way to download just the templates, even just a way > to download the basic templates that you need to make an infobox would > be fine. > > I have setup a mediawiki and I'm looking to use the infobox template > from wikipedia. I've tried to manually copy the template but then > realised there were too many transcluded pages and this would take me > forever, which led me to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Database_download#Downloading_templates > and it appears that quite a few other people are asking the same > question as me. One answer that's been given is to download pages- > articles.xml.bz2, however it's 4.1G and includes all Wikipedia > articles, and not just the templates. > > Could someone advise? > > Thank you, Dawson > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
