Timwi wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
There is a known bug with MSG in that changing the links in a message will break the link table of the articles which include it. So in your example, the "what links here" for [[Omega (letter)]] would have listed all the greek letter articles, despite the fact that they were all updated to point to [[Omega]] instead.
Then I suppose that bug should be fixed?...
The moral to this story is: don't change messages unless you really need to. And don't use MSG in places where you're expecting changes to the links.
In light of that bug, I agree, but once it's fixed, then I suppose we can start using this?
Yes. In fact with a few simple extra features, it could be used for many templates. The most important suggested feature is "parameterised inclusion". For example, if [[MediaWiki:Hello]] contains "Hello $1, welcome to $2", then {{msg:hello|Timwi|Wikipedia}} would generate "Hello Timwi, welcome to Wikipedia".
-- Tim Starling