User:SamanthaNguyen/Wiki/Historical

Magic words in MediaWiki versions before 1.8
MediaWiki versions prior to 1.8 differed in the following ways:


 * 1)  did not pass a language parameter.  To simulate this parameter, extensions backported to 1.7 or earlier can extract the language of $wgContLang on their own and proceed as normal and/or offer a language independent process for selecting the ID-text mapping.
 * 2) Extensions that used magic words had to explicitly register their magic word IDs using the hook . This method simply asked the implementer to supply the ID of the magic word.