On 9/20/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
The list is just a default when there's not a wiki page for the books list defined; customizations are meant to be done in the wiki.
Aha, that's the datum I was missing.
AFAICS, MediaWiki:Booksources contains the name of a page in the {{ns:4}} namespace, which is used verbatim, except that MAGICNUMBER is substituted by the ISBN.
Nice, though not the most documented of features :)