In 1.2.x you have to put messages in the MediaWiki: namespace and use the syntax {{msg:blah}}. The Template and {{blah}} notation was introduced in 1.3.

slowpoke

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:16:10 +0200, Tom Muylle tom.muylle@student.kuleuven.ac.be wrote:

Hi,

I'm having a little problem with templates (the {{name}} things). I'm using 1.2.6 on Windows. I made {{europe}} on a page, then made Template:europe (I copied straight from the source of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Europe ). When i view the template-page, it gives me the list, so that works. When i return to my original page which should include the template, i see the text {{europe}}, not [[Template:europe]] like http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template suggests when the template page doesn't exist, or the list of countries. Then i grepped the source: grep -r "{{" *.php, this found absolutely nothing. Is this because the metawiki-page is out of date, too recent or wrong? Am i using an old version?

Thanks for reading, Tom

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