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

[David Gerard]

On 28 April 2010 21:48, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

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


Yep! The {{msg:whatever}} usage was rare, but it really took off when
templating was properly supported.


- d.