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In 2016, I'm noticing that there are some quirks in the software that I'm still investigating, so I've got notes here. Basically, I want to simply figure out whether there are any issues to implementors / site Administrators. '''When setting up a fresh install of MediaWiki; or upgrading a previous installation; is there anything to do with regard to the licensing templates or interface messages so that [[Special:Upload]] "just works"?''' One oddity that I found was that there were a bunch of "self-published" options available in the licensing dropdown, however they rely on a template named 'self' which was not present in this wiki. It is not a trivial exercise to export/import the that template from mediawiki.org nor wikipedia.com. Because of the complex nature of these licensing templates, it is not possible to "copy" the template text.

The simplest workaround solution I could come up with on short notice found was to export (using [[mw:Special:Export]]) the category 'License_templates[[mw:Category:License templates]]' from mediawiki.org . The category includes 30+ templates and import them heremodules.<pre>Template:BSD 1 revisionTemplate:PD Help Page 1 revisionTemplate:MIT 1 revisionTemplate:PD 1 revisionTemplate:LGPL 1 revisionTemplate:PD-self 1 revisionTemplate:Cc-by-sa-3Be sure to tick the box that says "Include templates".0 1 revisionTemplate:Free screenshot 1 revisionTemplate:Cc-by-3This will generate an xml file for download.0 1 revisionTemplate Then, import that file (using [[Special:Unknown copyright-notice 1 revisionTemplate:FAL 1 revisionTemplate:PD-textlogo 1 revisionTemplate:Cc-by-4.0 1 revisionTemplate:Cc-by-sa-4Import]]) on your wiki (as admin user).0 1 revisionTemplate:GFDL 1 revisionTemplateNote to self:Unknown copyright 1 revisionTemplatelook at the https:GPL 1 revisionTemplate:Cc-by-sa-2.5 1 revisionTemplate:BSD/doc 1 revisionTemplate:Documentation 1 revisionTemplate:Documentation subpage 1 revisionTemplate:File other 1 revisionTemplate:Image other 1 revisionTemplate:Mbox 1 revisionTemplate:Tl 1 revisionTemplate:Tlx 1 revisionModule:Arguments 1 revisionModule:Category handler 1 revisionModule:Category handler/blacklist 1 revisionModule:Category handlerwww.mediawiki.org/config 1 revisionModule:Category handlerwiki/data 1 revisionModuleExtension:Category handler/shared 1 revisionModule:Documentation 1 revisionModule:Documentation/config 1 revisionModule:Message box 1 revisionModule:Message box/configuration 1 revisionModule:Namespace detect/config 1 revisionModule:Namespace detect/data 1 revisionModule:No globals 1 revisionModule:Yesno 1 revisionTemplate:Dir 1 revisionTemplate:GetFallback 1 revisionTemplate:Int 1 revisionTemplate:LangSwitch 1 revisionTemplate:Langcat 1 revisionTemplate:Languages 1 revisionTemplate:Languages/Lang 1 revisionTemplate:Languages/Title 1 revisionTemplate:Nmbox 1 revisionTemplate:PD Help Page/core/en 1 revisionTemplate:Pagelang 1 revisionTemplate:Translation 1 revisionTemplate:Uselang 1 revisionModuleUploadWizard for ways to improve https:Template translation 1 revisionTemplate:Category 1 revisionTemplate:Help/Category 1 revisionTemplate:Help/If en 1 revisionTemplate:Imbox 1 revisionTemplate:PD/doc 1 revisionTemplate:Pp-meta 1 revisionTemplate:Pp-meta/pagetype 1 revisionTemplate:Pp-template 1 revisionTemplate:TNTN No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors)www.Template:Tlx2 1 revisionTemplate:Translatable template name 1 revisionTemplate:Free screenshot/doc 1 revisionTemplate:Cc-by-3mediawiki.0org/doc 1 revisionTemplate:File title 1 revisionTemplate:Unknown copyright-noticewiki/doc 1 revisionTemplateExtension:- 1 revision</pre>Html2Wiki in terms of incorporating license templates into the extension.