On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:02:19PM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
Stephen Bain and I were also wondering about the history of the ISBN magic word. When did it appear, what was the reasoning etc? Since it can be implemented perfectly well as a normal template ([[Special:Booksources/isbn{{{1}}}|ISBN {{{1}}}]]), was the decision to make it a magic word just a legacy thing to make thousands of existing ISBN's suddenly "come to life"?
It's a very old feature, much older than templates.
Regards,
jens