On 01/10/05, Stefan Vesterlund <s.vesterlund(a)telia.com> wrote:
The data in {{msg}} is not in the dumps (I'm using
those to not put any
unnecessary lode on Wikipedia servers). It is grate if a separate dump could
be made with this data (xml, sql or what ever format).
Er... it should be, as long as you're not using the "ns0 only" dump.
It's just page content that's in the "Template" namespace (ns=10).
You've probably not spotted it because namespaces are stored
*numerically* in the database, not as strings, and not as part of the
title. [See also
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespace]
So, the page referenced by "{{msg:foo}}" (or "{{foo}}") is called
"Template:Foo", but in the database it will have a "title" of
"Foo"
and a "namespace" of 10. That's why it can be called
"Template:Foo"
and "Mal:Foo" at the same time, because the first bit isn't really
part of the name.
BTW, "{{msg:foo}}" was deprecated in favour of "{{foo}}" long ago.
I hope this makes at least some sense - feel free to ask if anything
still isn't clear.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]