On 28 April 2010 06:43, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> 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.
- d.
Well the Template namespace initialisation script went through in june
2004 however before that people used {{msg:whatever}}.
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geni