[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

[David Gerard]

On 28 April 2010 06:43, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Wow. Hard-coded into the wikitext, I presume? The questioner might be
> asking when the first templates were created, and might not realised
> that the same thing can be done direct with using templates. When did
> the template namespace start, anyway?


2004, with MediaWiki 1.3, I think? Editors pounced on this marvellous
new capability.


- d.