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This is a followup to bug 12519

Using templates with parameters seems to work in many messages in many special pages now.

In some cases it fails, however, or does not work as intended. There is a template in kshwiki, the Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages, Template:Navvi_Wikkipedijas_All, which is being used so as to add interlanguage links to special pages. It is mostly inserted into the MediaWiki:*-summary messages of most special pages; but occasionally in another message, when a -summary message does not exist. (Btw., it would imho preferrable to have a separate MediaWiki:*-something-message for the template/interlanguage link stuff. Squeezing different things into one text is always a bad idea. Having to make a copy of a message text, which is local to the wiki, while the text itself does not need to be different from the standard text at all, ruling out all corrections and enhancements made to the message by developers, appears not productive to me.)

For some special pages, a way has still to be found, to incorporate interlanguage links, or make template inclusions work, or make template parameters work, respectively. Here is a list of pages in the MediaWiki name space which I have tried, and the corresponging special pages not showing interlanguage links:

MediaWiki:Allpages-summary
Special:Allpages

MediaWiki:Booksources-summary
Special:Booksources

MediaWiki:Sitematrix-summary
Special:Sitematrix

MediaWiki:Crossnamespacelinks-summary
Spezial:CrossNamespaceLinks

MediaWiki:Expand templates intro
MediaWiki:Expand templates-summary
MediaWiki:ExpandTemplates-summary
Special:ExpandTemplates

MediaWiki:Cite-summary
Special:Cite

MediaWiki:Logout-summary
MediaWiki:Logouttext
Sepcial:Logout

MediaWiki:ParserDiffTest-summary
MediaWiki:Parserdifftest-summary
Spezial:ParserDiffTest

MediaWiki:Renameuser-summary
Spezial:Renameuser

MediaWiki:Deletedcontributions-summary
Spezial:Deletedcontributions

I have not investigated in depth, why the template generated interlanguage links do not render. Thus actual reasons may vary. Certainly interlange links are not honored in each type of message from the MediaWiki name space when used inside a special page; although they always show when you look at the respective message on its page in the MediaWiki name spage.