[WikiEN-l] Re: Question about MediaWiki namespace

Tue Jan 6 23:57:26 UTC 2004

Timwi wrote:
> 
> Tim Starling wrote:
>>
>> There is a known bug with MSG in that changing the links in a message
>> will break the link table of the articles which include it. So in your
>> example, the "what links here" for [[Omega (letter)]] would have listed
>> all the greek letter articles, despite the fact that they were all
>> updated to point to [[Omega]] instead.
> 
> 
> Then I suppose that bug should be fixed?...
> 
>> The moral to this story is: don't change messages unless you really 
>> need to. And don't use MSG in places where you're expecting changes to 
>> the links.
> 
> 
> In light of that bug, I agree, but once it's fixed, then I suppose we 
> can start using this?

Yes. In fact with a few simple extra features, it could be used for many 
templates. The most important suggested feature is "parameterised 
inclusion". For example, if [[MediaWiki:Hello]] contains "Hello $1, 
welcome to $2", then {{msg:hello|Timwi|Wikipedia}} would generate "Hello 
Timwi, welcome to Wikipedia".

-- Tim Starling