Tim Starling wrote:

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

On fr: most, if not all, of these have normaly already been moved from the MediaWiki: namespace the Template: namespace (Modèle: in french). The REDIRECT is still in place.

-- Looxix