Bart Read wrote:
Well, I finally got around to reading that document and trying it's suggestions. I went to http://bart/cvc/index.php/Mediawiki:fromwikipedia (obviously replacing the sitename as appropriate) and found myself at a read-only page (logged in as a sysop) with "From CVC" on it (CVC is my site name).
If you're logged in as a sysop you should be able to edit that page. Can you check the cur_rights field, and also check your user's user_rights field? Might be something weird going on.
I then went to http://bart/cvc/index.php/MediaWiki:All_messages and got a message saying "(There is currently no text in this page)".
Try http://bart/cvc/index.php/Special:Allmessages
This updated the row correctly, so feeling encouraged I decided to refresh the main page of my wiki in my browser (Firefox 0.9.3), and guess what happened? Yep, that's right, nothing. No change whatsoever.
The messages are cached. Delete the data in the objectcache table to force it to reload them (this would have been done automatically when editing through the wiki).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)