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