[I expect that someone else already posted this suggestion back in the stone age. Please subscribe me to that that post.]
It would be extremely useful to have a //empty English Wikipedia// (MediaWikipedia) package of MediaWiki so people can import/export the majority of all articles from Wikipedia to their own MediaWiki instance out of the box!
The import/export tool can be used but it is a bit painful and even worst, it does not work out of the box, I get errors when I'm trying to import Wikipedia templates to my own MediaWiki.
Things that should be implemented in MediaWikipedia:
**References**
- Template:Reflist
So basic a basic Wikipedia article can be used like:
> Test.<ref>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/165195/</ref>
>
> ==References==
> {{Reflist}}
**Citation option**
[[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citation_option_in_your_edit_toolbar | citation option in your edit toolbar ]]:
- Template:Cite web
- Template:Cite news
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite journal