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Hi All,
This issue is getting more and more serious, and the need is there, if we still just pointing to an wiki page that is not really getting anywhere.
As the original topic opener wrote "the wiki page contains lots of bad and outdated templates" which is showing this is not maintained at all.
But this is just half of the problem, there is way more useful template all around the place which is never submitted because it's not so easy, and you have to host it and etc, so we lose all of that.
With the upcoming 2.2 and the loadable modules, this is become more and more required, why an traditional wiki is not suitable for this is simple, there easy way to maintain it, it's way less dynamic that it should be, and it's simple not suitable for collaborated code work, maybes it's good for the documentation, but the template, module, script collection is not a document.
Marc marked some key feature of the solution what's needed, and I think I agree with him on most of them, but I would go in an other way, how the nagios handle it also quite good, with the ranking, that's quite good, the other example what I propose is puppet forge way.
If someone is not familiar with the way how it's handled there some highlights.
-user can upload they manifest/module ( in zabbix template, script module )
-there are some "official" module ( called puppetlabs there )
-the users can update, and suggest fixes
So if we add to this the ranking, and nice searching that's enough.
Bacily the key thing is again
Community drived centralized maintained collection of templates, scripts and modules
ps.: i'm not native english so, excuse me....
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As the original topic opener wrote "the wiki page contains lots of bad and outdated templates" which is showing this is not maintained at all.
first, on zabbix.org the template section is seeing quite a lot of additions and updates lately (i agree that it could be better looking, but it's a wiki - please, do improve it  )
also, on the "not maintained at all" part - the "old" wiki is definitely not maintained, the .org page gets updates. if you think the updates are no good, please, help us 
Community drived centralized maintained collection of templates, scripts and modules
PLEASE come and join us !
i'd LOVE (and i don't use uppercase much ;> ) to have somebody involved in this on zabbix.org - we can host there anything and we can help you to get started.
i think i even had somewhere a spec draft for some frontend for template storage like that.
the problem is that many people say "oh, the community should get involved !", but in the end it all is "somebody should do something about it" - that is, in this specific area the interest of community tends to stop somewhere between jira and irc :/
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