Mediawiki Help

Hello, I have just installed mediawiki to create my site. I've been trying to create the template but am a little stumped.

I'm trying to create infoboxes and a few other templates like I see them on wikipedia. My question is, if the only way to copy these styles is by doing it manually. That is going to wikipedia and copying the page's source.

I ask because I have tried this but seem to have many errors or code showing up where it isn't supposed to be.

 

infoboxes are tricky. First you need to install a number of extentions such as http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions

(full list of the extentions wikipedia uses can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version)

Second the more advance wikipedia templates often rely on your haveing other templates around.

 

Thank you, now I have the extensions that were needed. Just want to know now if there is a place I can download all the templates or does it have to be done by copying the source code for each one at a time.

 

Technicaly here:

http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20070527/

However since there are a few 10ks of templates it would probably be better just to copy across the ones you want.