Last modified: 2013-10-25 08:53:51 UTC
Some people don't want to use Scribuntu yet (e.g. because they can't prepare their environment for it, or it's not worth the hassle); they just want to use the pre-Scribuntu templates from Wikipedia. However, those old templates still had a lot of dependencies. Special:Export should have a feature that lets you select the date/time of the versions of the templates and dependencies you want to export. So, e.g., users could get the versions of Template:Infobox and its dependencies as they existed on 27 May 2013, in one export, without needing to manually go through the histories of each individual dependency. By the way, is this already possible using the parameters offset=[timestamp] and limit=1? If so, all that would be needed would be a change to the GUI. In the meantime, the Scribuntu documentation could explain how to use the parameters. However, it would be better to change the GUI, for the benefit of those who don't have a bot handy with which to POST the request.
