[Foundation-l] Template initialisation script

Thu Jun 3 17:57:02 UTC 2004

Tim Starling wrote:
> 
> To complete the conversion of the wikipedias to MediaWiki 1.3, I'm going 
> to run a script which does the following:
> 
> * Moves every page in the MediaWiki namespace which is not an internal 
> message, to the Template namespace, unless there is already a page at 
> the target location
> * In all pages linking to the moved pages, or including a template, 
> {{msg:pagename}} will be converted to {{pagename}}, and 
> [[MediaWiki:pagename]] will be converted to [[Template:pagename]], where 
> pagename is the name of the moved page.
> 
> After this is done, a few technical problems involving clearing caches 
> when templates are changed will be fixed.
> 
> This will probably take a while. There won't be any downtime. Edits will 
> be attributed to "Template namespace initialisation script".
> 
> -- Tim Starling
> 

On fr: most, if not all, of these have normaly already been moved from the MediaWiki: namespace
the Template: namespace (Modèle: in french). The REDIRECT is still in place.

-- Looxix