Template talk:Mediawiki

What’s the point of this template?
I don’t understand the point of this template – why write   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)

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)