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[edit] New Templates?

I'm still fairly new to wiki-type things, I was wondering what the process would be (if one exists) for adding a template to this wiki, if it's one that's become fairly standard on Wikipedia. I had assumed that all the nifty little things I use over on Wikipedia would work here, until moments ago when I tried to mark a comment as unsigned using this template, on the "Puppet Head" talk page After some tinkering and searching, I realized that for now I'd have to do it manually, but I think it would be a useful addition to the site, and I'd like to know what the chances are of other useful wiki templates being incorpoarted here. - uglinessman 16:16, 13 May 2006 (CDT)

Wikipedia is running on a beta of MediaWiki 1.7, while we're still on MW 1.4. Eventually we'll gain a bunch of new templates when we get around to switching hosts (if still necessary) and upgrading MediaWiki. The Unsigned template was created by users of Wikipedia (exactly one year ago) because they felt it necessary to indentify some of the thousands upon thousands of unsigned posts. Things are a bit different here; if a registered user didn't sign a post they'll usually go back and fix it immediately. If a non-registered user posts, they probabaly wrote something short and didn't sign it because they felt it didn't need to be signed, and odds are, it didn't. We can always check the history of a page to see when and who posted it, anyway. As for creating a template, all you have to do is make a new page that starts with Template:, but you should probabaly check with an admin like myself first to decide whether it's really needed or not. -CapitalQ / @ / 16:30, 13 May 2006 (CDT)
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