Thread:Sylvandyr/@comment-5262992-20120923192431/@comment-4830404-20120924143137

To build on my long explanation post above, our wiki uses lots of templates, which you would want to fit your purposes and rename as well. It will not work if you just copy what's on the page, because the template does not exist on your wiki - you would have to create the templates. Anywhere you see, that syntax is using templates. Let's say your users don't like the way a template displays information. You would have to change the template and possibly the data entry accordingly.

Also, going back to the javascript issue, unfortunately wikia / MediaWiki make it somewhat annoying to embed javascript. You can't just copy javascript code onto any wiki page and have it work. Like I mentioned earlier, you need to mess with MediaWiki. Moreover, Wikia does not own MediaWiki, and wiki editors don't own Wikia, so you won't have direct access to MediaWiki source code / settings etc. So instead of being able to modify some settings according to your preferences, you must figure out all the intricate dance steps that MediaWiki wants you to perform on your wiki.

MediaWiki caches javascript in a funny way, and the dance steps change whenever MediaWiki or Wikia change something that affects everything... Then you have to go back and figure out what to do different. It is less to do with programming and feels more like trying to figure out how to make a newborn baby stop crying... Unless you want to do a LOT of work researching or experimenting with what to do every time things change, I suggest steering away from using javascript with MediaWiki. HTML works fine with MediaWiki though, so you can do lots of nice formatting without using javascript even if you can't do things that require real code...

This is why I think that it is best that you design a wiki layout that suits the purposes of you and your German users. What works well for the English site may seem inadequate for the German site.

I also suggest finding friends who are interested in helping you with the German wiki and appointing some Admins. A big community project like a wiki is not something that should be tackled alone. It's way too much work to maintain by yourself.