To complete the conversion of the wikipedias to MediaWiki 1.3, I'm going to run a script which does the following:
* Moves every page in the MediaWiki namespace which is not an internal message, to the Template namespace, unless there is already a page at the target location * In all pages linking to the moved pages, or including a template, {{msg:pagename}} will be converted to {{pagename}}, and [[MediaWiki:pagename]] will be converted to [[Template:pagename]], where pagename is the name of the moved page.
After this is done, a few technical problems involving clearing caches when templates are changed will be fixed.
This will probably take a while. There won't be any downtime. Edits will be attributed to "Template namespace initialisation script".
-- Tim Starling