Template talk:Mediawiki

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[edit] What’s the point of this template?

I don’t understand the point of this template – why write {{mediawiki|Foo}} rather than [[Foo]], particularly as this creates an external link? Nbarth 18:58, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Some investigation (Project:PD help) reveals that it’s for automatically creating external links when the pages are included in a different project. I’ve written that up above. Nbarth 19:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Internal links

I’ve modified this so that on Mediawiki itself, it creates internal links, which is less disconcerting. Nbarth 19:26, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Good idea, thanks. I've moved your rationale notes to the main template and borrowed your parser logic for same; this avoids the creation of yet another red link (to this talk page) on wikis which use the Help pages. Cheers. --kingboyk 20:50, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Handy Examples

Examples:

• {{Mediawiki|Page_Title}}
• {{Mediawiki|Page_Title|text}}

This took two of us a significant amount of time to puzzle out on Lunarpedia.

-- Miros1 19:49, 19 January 2009 (UTC)