[WikiEN-l] Templates and old page versions

[Fred Bauder]

> I think I've asked this before, but I'm raising it again as I've
> noticed templates being used again within articles to allowed finer
> control over specific parts of article content. This practice of using
> templates within articles for the actual text of articles is something
> I think should be discouraged because it messes up page histories and
> makes it difficult to work out who edited what on a page.
>
> The question I have is whether it is possible for old page versions to
> display warnings that if templates were on the page, that the content
> from that part of the page comes from current templates, rather than
> showing what was originally there when the page was published.
> Currently there is a warning on top of old page versions that says
> "This is an old revision of this page, as edited by XXX at YYYY. It
> may differ significantly from the current revision." But that doesn't
> go far enough, IMO. There needs to be a warning included there that
> images and templates may display as red-links if subsequently deleted,
> or may display content different from what was originally there if
> later updated, or may display something completely unrelated (if a
> template is deleted and recreated or re-coded, or the image
> overwritten with a new image).
>
> Does anyone know which mediawiki page produces that warning, so I can
> suggest changing it?
>
> Carcharoth

MediaWiki:Revision-info

Fred