User:Chriswaterguy/Tech/Importing templates with dependencies

Note, regex^W skills needed for the xml editing.

1. Export from source wiki, turning on "Include templates." Do not import this file.
2. Determine the list of pages to be imported.
   1. Delete everything except the title lines
   2. Turn those titles into wikilinks.
   3. Paste into an Appropedia page (e.g. Sandbox.
   4. Delete all the blue links from the list, until that only redlinks remain. Be 100% sure, to avoid overwrite problems. (This assumes that the blue links represent the same template working close enough to the same way on both wikis.)
3. Go to the export page on the source wiki
   1. Paste in the short list of red links (removing the square brackets)
   2. Turn off "Include templates"
   3. Turn on "Save as file"
   4. Export
4. Edit the xml export file:
   1. Strip out interlanguage links, if any - step through each one to avoid false positives. This regex match code should work: \[\[[a-z][a-z]\:[^\]]+\]\](\r?\n)? and hit delete or replace with nothing.
   2. Change every username - for Wikipedia, assuming you've imported only the latest revision, change usernames to "(various editors @ en.wikipedia.org)". Regex: Match \<username\>[^\<]+\</username\> and replace with <username>(various editors @ en.wikipedia.org)</username>
5. Double check there are no existing templates (e.g. do a quick search and eyeball each <title> line)
6. Import here.
7. Try out the templates.