Index: phase3/includes/Parser.php
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RCS file: /cvsroot/wikipedia/phase3/includes/Parser.php,v
retrieving revision 1.553
diff -u -r1.553 Parser.php
--- phase3/includes/Parser.php  30 Dec 2005 11:10:51 -0000      1.553
+++ phase3/includes/Parser.php  31 Dec 2005 19:05:30 -0000
@@ -2458,6 +2458,19 @@
                        }
                }

+               # Variable/template prefix hooks
+               # $part1 is the name (foo:bar)
+               # $args is anything afterwards
+               # $hook_ret is your parsed value
+               # $noparse is whether we shouldn't parse further (default to fal
se)
+               # $nowiki is if the content isn't wikitext (default to false)
+               # We can't use the MagicWord pattern established above because we don't know which ones we should do.
+               $hook_ret = '';
+               if ( !$found && !wfRunHooks('ParserHandleSpecialPrefix', array($part1, $args, &$hook_ret, &$noparse, &$nowiki))) {
+                       $text = $linestart . $hook_ret;
+                       $found = true;
+               }
+
                # Template table test

                # Did we encounter this template already? If yes, it is in the cache
Index: phase3/includes/SpecialVersion.php
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RCS file: /cvsroot/wikipedia/phase3/includes/SpecialVersion.php,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -r1.37 SpecialVersion.php
--- phase3/includes/SpecialVersion.php  29 Dec 2005 20:27:25 -0000      1.37
+++ phase3/includes/SpecialVersion.php  31 Dec 2005 19:05:30 -0000
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@
                        'specialpage' => 'Special pages',
                        'parserhook' => 'Parser hooks',
                        'variable' => 'Variables',
+                       'prefix' => 'Special prefixes',
                        'other' => 'Other',
                );
                wfRunHooks( 'SpecialVersionExtensionTypes', array( &$this, &$extensionTypes ) );