Dear Brion (and everyone else),
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). 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)". Undeterred I fired up MySQLCC, knowing that the data is there somewhere in the database, had a quick scan through the tables, and took a look at "cur" because its function seemed not so obvious from its name. Seemed to find the main page title (cur_title=Mainpage) and executed the following SQL:
UPDATE cur SET cur_text="Welcome" WHERE cur_id = 304;
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.
Could somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong? (Obviously it's something.) I'm spending all my time trying to muck around making minor customisations when really what I want to be doing is filling my site with content. I'd be extremely grateful for any help received.
Many thanks, Bart Read
Bart Read wrote:
Thanks Brion, that should cover it. Bart
Brion Vibber wrote:
Bart Read wrote:
So, anyway I tried changing "Main page" to something else ("Welcome" as it goes), in both places, refreshed the front page in my browser and.... well, basically nothing appeared to happen. I also tried to change the left-hand menu text (Community portal) etc with the same result.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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