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