Thread:Project:Support desk/So what's going on?

Would someone please explain why this template works on Sturmkrieg but not on Bigotry Wiki?

http://www.sturmkrieg.us/index.php?title=Template:Portal&action=edit#.UU0aU1vwIbo

http://bigotry.sashaweb.net/index.php?title=Template:Portal&action=edit

You can see the template used on each wiki on the sandbox page.

So, why is it not working on the newer wiki? I'm pretty close to losing it right now. I tried adding 1 to the end of the Portal namespace on Bigotry Wiki template so it wasn't a namespace, and the links worked fine in that case. So why does the parser function on Bigotry Wiki drop the namespace? Words cannot express how absolutely moronic it was to do that!