Talk:List of shared templates

Wikia - creating communities

Can we create our own for cross-wikia subjects? I'm thinking that one of these for Politics would be really useful as Campaigns really gets off the ground. Chadlupkes 21:55, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, there's nothing special about them. Any page in the template namespace on central should work. Angela (talk) 03:31, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Currently this does not seem to work, it gives [Template fetch failed for http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Template%3AMain?action=render; sorry] or similar.

This is a bug on some wikis. See bug:329 for details. Angela (talk) 15:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I found out that "wikicities" works, only "wikia" does not work yet.--Pat 13:02, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

It took me a while to figure this out but if your interwiki link does not match the format of the link when a user clicks edit the you get the [Template fetch failed...] error. For instance, the edit url for a page is

http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=Template:foobar&action=edit

so the interwiki link format should be

http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=$1

which will result in a transclusion link of

http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=Template:foobar&action=render

--Mike