Might be worth talking to Guillaume and putting some informative text,
with a pointer, for the Wikitech newsletter.

Regards, Billinghurst

On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 05:05:10 +0100, Ricordisamoa
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks to the community for having taken up this challenge!
> Many local copies of the template were deleted, but most of them are 
> still there. The progress for wikis that are connected to Wikidata can 
> be monitored via this item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5400303>.
> I also discovered that the parser function is only called if no 
> arguments are present. For example, after two simple edits ([1] 
>
<https://de.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Vorlage:Mathematischer_Text/Definition&diff=408341>
> 
> and [2] 
>
<https://de.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Vorlage:Mathematischer_Text/Fakt&diff=408342>)
> 
> on the German Wikiversity, the transclusion count dropped from 1608 to
45.
> 
> Il 24/12/2014 05:08, Ricordisamoa ha scritto:
>> Hi guys,
>> some time ago the '!' parser function was added in MediaWiki to 
>> replace the homonym template. However, the latter still exists on lots 
>> of WMF wikis.
>> I've come up with a rough tool 
>> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/cleanup/excl-template.php> to help 
>> identifying the wikis on which it's still on use and the ones on which 
>> it can be safely deleted. I've already made the server purge the link 
>> cache for almost all of them.
>> But please don't use bots to nominate all those for speedy deletion, 
>> only handle wikis you're familiar with ;-)
>> And don't forget to get the documentation page deleted too!

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