Forum:Wikia functionality for my own wiki

Hello,

I'm using MediaWiki for an internal company wiki and I would like to use some of the functionailty of http://foodtruck.wikia.com/. Specifically the method of templating the page so that specific fields must be filled in. Is this available as a plugin for other MediaWiki sites?

Regards,

Kevpatts


 * That functionality is called "Layout Builder" (see Help:Layout builder). Even if it was possible to use this on external MW installations (I don't know), I would urge you not to try that. The functionality of LB is severely limited, up to the point of doing more harm than good. For example, pages created with the LB can not be edited in source mode. Search for "layout builder" on this site, and you will find many forum entries about that.
 * As an alternative, I suggest you check out Semantic Mediawiki and Semantic Forms (http://semantic-mediawiki.org/), two extensions to Mediawiki that will enable you or your users to create page templates in a better way. -- Cid Highwind 09:46, October 13, 2011 (UTC)


 * It is unlikely that PLB will work on a local wiki without numerous other extensions that you also don't want. You're much better off using something that was designed to work in a normal MediaWiki installation like the one you have.