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cleaning {{msg:foo}} usage and cleaning the MediaWiki namespace
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Author: gangleri

Description:
comment regarding
[[Help:Template#Version 1.2.6]]
In versions 1.3 and 1.4 the prefix "msg:" is optional and ignored.
*From version 1.5 the tag {{msg:abc}} refers to Template:Msg:abc !*

Dear friends!

I have seen at various wiki's that
a) many pages still contain {{msg:foo}}
b) there are still many redirects from templates located originaly in the
MediaWiki namespace to their equivalent in the template namespace.

a) could be changed with a [[en:Wikipedia:Bot]]
b) are the result of actions performed by

[[User:Template namespace initialisation script]]
and can be identified with
[[Special:Contributions/Template namespace initialisation script]]

Best regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]


Version: unspecified
Severity: major
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template#Version_1.2.6

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 21 2014, 8:31 PM
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For reasons that are unclear to me, Avar made an incompatible change to what
msg: did on the 1.5 branch. I've reverted the change; it now continues to be
compatible with previous usage.