[Mediawiki-l] signing with ~~~

[Rob Church]

On 20/05/06, FreeAll Support <support at freeall.org> wrote:
> Hello all, and thanks for your help!
>
> A question about signing with "~~~":
>
> In my preferences page, I can choose to edit my sign-up by myself. Well, the
> problem is that when I insert a template inside the signing-text, it becomes
> immediately a "SUBST" template.
> i.e. - when I use the template {{CURRENTDAY}} it suddenly becomes
> {{SUBST:CURRENTDAY}} when I save the preferences page. If I want my signing
> to keep moving, or for any other reason do not write the template itself,
> Can I do it somehow?

This is to stop you killing your wiki when you change your signature
template, and to make sure variables and magic words are properly
substituted.


Rob Church