User:Template namespace initialisation script

This user is a script that was involved in the conversion from the MediaWiki namespace to the Template namespace. It had three phases of operation:


 * 1) Before the conversion to MediaWiki 1.3, it created redirects from Template pages to MediaWiki pages. This is so that includes will keep working after the conversion.
 * 2) After the switch, it moved everything in MediaWiki which is not an internal message to Template
 * 3) Then it worked through all the articles converting the inclusion syntax and fixing links

Like the conversion script and MediaWiki default script, this script used a user ID of zero, so its contributions were treated as though it were an anonymous user. This is no longer the case due to software changes; see T181731. Similarly to "Conversion script", in April 2006, a vandal created an account with this username and it was subsequently blocked. The edits under this username were later moved to a non-0 user ID number, the same one generated during the April 2006 account creation, as part of the actor migration.

Contact Tim Starling for further details.

See also:


 * Foundation-l post
 * Source code

''...I don't consider edits performed by the TNIS to be copyrightable. You may consider those edits to be public domain for all intents and purposes. -- Tim Starling 23:54, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)'' -- Posted on User talk:Ram-Man

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