Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5601098-20130731114809/@comment-1330470-20130731132750

Indeed. Keep in mind that when a new English wiki is created, it comes with oodles of templates (check out c:starter:Special:AllPages?namespace=10) while wikis not in a very common language only gets six, and they're all in English! (Check out this example wiki)

Importing the English templates can be a nice stepping stone in the development of this foreign wiki. Furthermore, since they made the effort to import the full history of each page, the attribution and credits to the original editors are preserved... As such, they are in every right to copy the material.