Last modified: 2011-11-18 04:22:59 UTC
When you use the method described in the documentation to embed an #ask query simply as a link using the searchlabel parameter and liit=0, the Special:Ask page won't follow format=template and teplate= parameters, and is instead formatted as the default broadtable. If you are to set limit=1 or higher, the Special:Ask page does use the template, but then you aren't embedding a link to a query anymore.
Just ran into this. Would be great if this could be fixed!
see 24946
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 25915 ***