Sounds like a very good idea. To my mind there are three levels of configuration:
1. Stuff you definitely want to change (like the site icon and anything that shows up as a blank page or red link).
2. Stuff you probably want to consider changing because the default is quite possibly inappropriate (like copyright statements).
3. Stuff that you -can- change, if you're finnicky, but that most sites will be happy to leave as is (like most of the system messages).
Anyone who needs to convert the wiki into another language will probably need to do consider all three.
Ben
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Steven Dick Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 4:53 p.m. To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] mediawiki 1.5: so difficult?
On 11/29/05, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
On 29/11/05, Steven Dick kg4ydw@gmail.com wrote:
It would also help if there was a page in the documentation listing all
the
meta pages that are user interface pages.
Um, you mean Special:Allmessages ? Clearly, the documentation doesn't mention that enough times yet...
Clearly, you didn't read what I said, and you didn't check Special:Allmessages either. Yes, I know about that page, yes I find it helpful, but it is not enough.
It does NOT list [[Protected_page_guidelines]] which is linked from [[protectedpagewarning]]. This is one example only.
Also, there are a large number of messages in that page, most of which are OK and do not need much tweaking for me. My complaint is that I'd like a list of pages that DO need tweaking, mostly because they don't yet exist.
I guess what I would like is a list of all pages in Special:Allmessages that do NOT exist, as well as a list of all pages those pages link to that also do not exist...
As we both have pointed out, there are already two places to go to get a list of _ALL_ messages. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l