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Instead, one can use in-page interlanguage links on the talk pages, {{tim|ilm}} does this for some major projects.
== History ==
The MediaWiki namespace was introduced on December 6, 2003. Before this time, user interface text was part of the PHP software and could only be changed by software developers. Since the introduction they have been editable by normal administrators.
Until June 2004, the MediaWiki namespace was also used for creating other boilerplate text messages, to be used in articles. This function was replaced with the [[Wikipedia:Template namespace|Template namespace]]; a conversion script running as "{{u|Template namespace initialisation script}}" was run by developer [[User:Tim Starling|Tim Starling]], which moved all non-system messages to the new namespace, and replaced MediaWiki: (via the {{Magic word|msg:}} magic word) references in articles with Template: in order to bypass the redirects. In October and November 2005, these redirects were deleted. This background explains why the concept now known as "templates" is sometimes referred to as "messages".
For a short time, before the renaming from votes for deletion (VfD) to [[Wikipedia:articles for deletion|articles for deletion]] (AfD), deletion debates used MediaWiki: messages named in the format "MediaWiki:VfD-''articlename''". These were moved to the Template: space in June 2004 and are now (as of January 2006) subpages of [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion]] or [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]].
==See also==
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