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| What are ( the best || any ) current sources of MediaWiki Templates, Modules, Images, Extensions or other resources for populating a bare wiki with Authoring tools? | | What are ( the best || any ) current sources of MediaWiki Templates, Modules, Images, Extensions or other resources for populating a bare wiki with Authoring tools? |
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| For a long time I've wanted to be able to package the "scaffolding" required to author so the first thing you do (as a user) is create content rather than to setup scaffolding. By scaffolding, I'm referring to all the things missing from MediaWiki like "help" namespace content, plus images or icons used in interface elements or general-purpose templates and other things that would be like a "Starter Kit" to make editing the first page easy.
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| === Beginner experience in a new wiki ===
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| The out of the box experience is that you need to first create (a lot) of templates and come up with your own system for authors to follow. - especially if you want new authors to take advantage of the stuff MediaWiki has under the covers.
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| === Solutions available ===
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| Codex has [https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/components/overview.html components] like an accordion that can be used by Skin or Extension developers; and also in Javascript
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| [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:Page_Exchange|Page Exchange]] has '''packages''' like [https://github.com/WikiTeq/mediawiki-pages-SkillsMatrix/tree/master SkillsMatrix] | |
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| === Past Efforts ===
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| [[Meta:Community Tech/Central repository for gadgets, templates and Lua modules|Central repository for gadgets, templates and Lua modules]] is tracked in the mega ticket [[phab:T121470]] from 2015 which further relies on major efforts like "[[mw:Requests for comment/Shadow namespaces|shadow namespaces]]" [[phab:T91162]] and Global gadgets [[phab:T153332]]
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