Thread:Project:Support desk/Specials Templates/reply

Hi, just a short answer here:
 * They are not predefined templates, they are Help:Magic words
 * The first revision of an article is variable due to systems like:
 * Importing revisions
 * Deleting revisions
 * Hiding revisions
 * Deleting / Restoring / Undeleting pages.

Therefor the definition of the 'first revision' and thus the 'article creator' is hard to determine. (is the creation the first edit to that title counted by revision number, or by revision time (if 2 days after creation an old revision is imported, this revision will have a fresh revision id, yet an old timestamp). Untill things like this are figured, it will not be possible. Aside from that there's also effeciency/performance issues.

See also ticket 23427 in Wikimedia's bug tracker for the MediaWiki software.