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

[geni]

On 28 April 2010 10:58, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Well the Template namespace initialisation script went through in june
2004 however before that people used {{msg:whatever}}.
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geni