On 28 April 2010 21:48, geni <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28 April 2010 10:58, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 28 April 2010 06:43, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Wow. Hard-coded into the wikitext, I presume? The questioner might be
>>> asking when the first templates were created, and might not realised
>>> that the same thing can be done direct with using templates. When did
>>> the template namespace start, anyway?
>> 2004, with MediaWiki 1.3, I think? Editors pounced on this marvellous
>> new capability.
> Well the Template namespace initialisation script went through in june
> 2004 however before that people used {{msg:whatever}}.
Yep! The {{msg:whatever}} usage was rare, but it really took off when
templating was properly supported.
- d.
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