Last modified: 2006-04-02 23:20:48 UTC
msgnw outputs source text within noinclude tags and without onlyinclude tags when it shouldn't (subst doesn't). This could be annoying when the template page has categories, interwiki links, and a little text on how to use itself in noinclude tags. You don't want to show the list of categories and the rest on a page that introduces various templates, for example.
Isn't this exactly what a tool to display raw message source is supposed to do?
noinclude tags are supposed to hide a certain portion of source text. noinclude tags should override msgnw in cases like this in my opinion.
noinclude tags are supposed to hide things on *include*. msgnw exists to show the *raw* source. (For that matter it's obsolete, as Special:Allmessages now exists.)
Then is there any way to show only the source code of the template itself like subst does?
(In reply to comment #3) > ... (For that matter it's obsolete, as Special:Allmessages now exists.) {{msgnw:}} is of great help. As far as I know it is the only way to preserve / escape &entity; &#nnnn; &#xnnnn; characters. See http://yi.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Minoredit#msgnw:MediaWiki:PAGENAME {{msgnw:}} is very important for documentation. It can be used for guidance / to give some hints at wikies where users do not have priviledges to edit pages. It can be used "trace" templates and variables in templates. Documentation should not hide <foo> </foo>, <bar />, <foobar parameter /> etc. I (re-)discovered today some messages with opening <p> but without closing </p> (bug 2369) at some wikies. I would suggest to find another solution for the problem addressed by Hermeneus and not brake actual behaviour. I am aware only of a few open issues: bug 4913, bug 4951. It is and should remain a great "tool". best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
