Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-26010067-20190602142842/@comment-9605025-20190602162447

Interwiki (a.k.a. scary) transclusion is a bit more difficult (i.e. behaves a bit different) than regular transclusion. The common syntax is as you already mentioned:

What this effectively does is grab the rendered version of "Template:TemplateName" from Community Central (without resource loader) and inserts it. It automatically assumes that everything after "w:" is part of the template name in the template namespace. So, if you used:

It would attempt to transclude "Template:User:NightSpeakers". This is why you see a lot of pages with this apparent double namespace here on Community Central. However, there are two ways around this:

However, it still effectively grabs the page as if rendered on Community Central without the resource loader. What does this mean? Well, two things. "Without the resource loader" means things such as tabber and tabview won't work. "As if rendered on Community Central" means that, if you used the various transclusion tags (i.e. noinclude, includeonly, onlyinclude), it will be treated the same as the page on Community Central. This means, for example, that content enclosed by includeonly tags will not be displayed.

As KockaAdmiralac informed me, this restriction can be circumvented by using the "raw" tranclusion modifier.

As an example, you can look at my user page here and on the EastEnders Wiki.