Thanks Rob, this is exactly what I was looking for. Much appreciated!
Which bit of them?
The text used in the interfaces can be edited in the same manner as any other text; via the MediaWiki namespace. See the Special:Allmessages page on your wiki for a list of customisable interface text. If you've changed the LanguageXX.php (or MessagesXX.php, in 1.6alpha) files, run the rebuildMessages.php command-line maintenance script to repopulate the database.
The actual behaviour of the special pages is controlled by code in the includes/SpecialXXX.php files. If you want to change this, you will have to hack those.
Rob Church
On 16/02/06, zach bass geek@bassten.net wrote:
Thanks, that answered a couple of my questions, not sure how I missed it. However, I didn't see any mention of editing special pages. Am I missing something obvious? Again, my question was:
- Is it possible to edit special pages? It looks like the text for
special pages is stored in the database and is non-editable binary data, and that these database fields are populated from the file ./languages/Language.php, but changing the text in this file has no effect--is this data just imported to the database when the Wiki is first set up? Is there any way to pull in new changes from this file?
zach bass wrote:
Hi, I'm somewhat of a n00b to MediaWiki administration and have a
couple
questions. Apologies if these have been answered before, but I
checked
the list archives and web and haven't been able to find clear
answers.
I believe your questions are answered in the FAQ: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ
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