On 4/20/05, Matthew England mengland@mengland.net wrote:
How can I drive these Language.php changes into my Wiki (running 1.4.0)?
These are not showing up immediate in my Wiki like the rest of the LocalSettings/DefaultSettings.php changes I've made. (I tried an Apache reload, too, and that didn't do anything...not that I expected it to.) Maybe this stuff is loaded in at database-initialization time? If so, what are my options?
You've hit the nail on the head there. In order to make things *easier* to customise, all the interface strings are loaded into pages in the wiki at install time, so that anyone with sysop rights can edit them through the wiki itself. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:MediaWiki_namespace
Basically, just add "MediaWiki:" to the name of the string you're trying to edit, and edit that page on your wiki - so, you need to edit the pages MediaWiki:Loginprompt and MediaWiki:Whitelistedittext Don't forget to do a hard-refresh if you think things aren't updating properly.
The best idea is to pretend that the LanguageXX.php files don't exist, and just use Special:Allmessages to find the string you want.