Mediawiki 1.16: Leaving timestamp in template

Question

~~~~ is used to leave your timestamp with your name and date. I want to put this in a template so that whoever uses the template will have have the timestamp printed out as well.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

It is possible when substing the template. For example ~~<includeonly>~~</includeonly> will display as ~~~~ when the template is transcluded normally, and as a timestamp when substed.

Answer 2

This also may help and allows to format the timestamp more precisely:

• {{REVISIONDAY}}
• {{REVISIONDAY2}}
• {{REVISIONMONTH}}
• {{REVISIONMONTH1}}
• {{REVISIONYEAR}}
• {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
• {{REVISIONUSER}}

And this describes how to use the above magic words referring another pages.

Answer 3

Not without rewriting some of the code I don't think. ~~~~ will always be changed by the parser into the signature, and not be saved in the wikitext as ~~~~