Quoting Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com:
On 25/11/05, Paul Simmons psimmons@iinet.net.au wrote:
I am using templates for text reusability and simpler editing of small components in a larger page, and organisational flexability.
or am I going about this wrong and should just have a single page for each
item
instead of a template?
I'm not suggesting what you're doing is "wrong", but did you realise that something doesn't need to be in the Template: namespace to be included as a template onto another page? You can actually include *any* page with the same syntax, by giving the full name, with the one exception of pages in the "main" namespace, which have no prefix - because {{Foo}} defaults to {{Template:Foo}}, you have to use {{:Foo}} with a leading colon.
It seems to me that this might remove the need for your hack, since you can just not have the pages called Template: anything in the first place!
Thanks Rowan I did not, I will give it a go and it will save me much future upgrade grief.