On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:16 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Talking of templates, I recent discussion I raised died a quiet death (due to neglect more than anything else), and I was wondering what people here think of what was said there? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Summary_style#Problems_with_partial_transclusions_and_page_histories Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
