Template talk:Historical

This template now spews translate tags wherever it's used "plain", can we fix in general?
Hi User:Shirayuki, you translated this template, which is great, but now all the pages that just use  spew lots of ... markup.

e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Engineering/Project_documentation_howto&oldid=1497149 (before I fixed it) showed:
 *  This MediaWiki page is inactive and kept for historical interest. It may document extensions or features that are obsolete and/or no longer supported.  Do not rely on the information here being up-to-date. 

The fix is to change template invocations to, but there are hundreds of them! Translation is valuable, but we shouldn't mess up hundreds of existing pages just to translate a few.

Is there is a way to have a template not output translation machinery when it detects it's invoked in a normal manner? Otherwise, I urge translators to not change templates without a plan to update all the existing pages that invoke it.

This seems a general issue to bring up on some localization discussion page or on wikimedia-i18n mailing list, I welcome any suggestions. Thanks as always for your translation efforts!

-- SPage (WMF) (talk) 20:34, 5 October 2015 (UTC)


 * This bug is caused by the extension. It should be fixed radically by the Translate extension developers. --Shirayuki (talk) 21:34, 5 October 2015 (UTC)