Hi.
I understand that we now have the MediaWiki namespace and that we can insert the contents of MediaWiki:XYZ into an article by inserting either {{subst:XYZ}} or {{msg:XYZ}} (and yes, I know their difference).
Are there any plans to start using this functionality wide-spreadedly?
For example, all the articles on Greek letters have a list of links to all the other Greek letters at the bottom. I had recently moved some of the pages (e.g. [[Omega (letter)]] to [[Omega]]), and so I had to modify all of the articles correspondingly. Then I had to change them all *again* because I forgot one of them.
All of this would have been easier if this short list of links were a page in the MediaWiki namespace and were included in the Greek letter articles using {{msg:}}.
So, my question basically is: Should I do this?
One shortcoming I see with this is that each of the Greek-letter articles would then have a link to itself. I guess one could resolve that with coding; perhaps {{msg:}} should automatically change [[XYZ]] and [[XYZ|.*]] to '''XYZ''' if it's used in [[XYZ]]. Or something.
Boxes like those on the right of articles like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Franks could also benefit from this.
Timwi