On Sep 19, 2004, at 8:21 PM, Peter Gerdes wrote:
Go to wikiname:All system messages .
As I mentioned in another message, this page is slow, sometimes broken, and no longer produced as of 1.3.3. Instead use [[Special:Allmessages]] which is the same thing but much faster and more reliable...
I'm not sure how to add *new* links. I think you may need to go out and edit SkinPHPTal.php and xhtml...stuff.
Basically there's not a convenient way yet. You got to do the... stuff. :P Hopefully someone will have a chance to code up an easier way for 1.4. (This is a hint to your would-be coders out there...)
The more or less easily editable ones are the 'community portal' and the site support link (set URL in $wgSiteSupportPage in LocalSettings.php, and customize the link text in [[MediaWiki:Sitesupport]].
WARNING: These changes will not take effect immediatly. After I made my changes the very next page I displayed was updated but after that the change did not show up on later pages for another hour or more. This was what caused me so much confusion.
All MediaWiki: messages changes made through the wiki should take effect immediately. However, pages cached by your browser will still show old text until you force a reload. (Hitting the 'refresh' button usually is insufficient if the page itself hasn't been marked as changed due to an edit or related page edit.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)