On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:43:34 +0100, Lorenzo Breda lorenzo@gbreda.com wrote:
I didn't understand if this mailing list is Italian or English. So i wrote this letter in both languages.
Mostly, it's in English, as that's what most of the developers speak.
- I had to edit the text "Wikipedia" in the titlebar of the browser. I did
it editing the "includes/OutputPage.php" file on line 153 [ setHTMLTitle() ]. Is there a better way to do it?
Yes. Just find the appropriate page in the "MediaWiki namespace" - see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:MediaWiki_namespace for an overview, and go to the page [[Special:Allmessages]] on your own site to find which messages need changing. In this case, I think you need to edit the page [[MediaWiki:Wikititlesuffix]].
The language files shouldn't include hard-coded references to Wikipedia like this (they should have been replaced with "{{SITENAME}}", which changes as you reconfigure your own wiki), but I guess the Italian translation must have lagged behind on this change.
Note that once you've got the wiki running, changes to the language files will have no direct effect, because they are copied into the database during installation; the MediaWiki: pages represent those entries in the database.
- I have to edit the menu. I read on the documentation to do it adding
something like this: $wgNavigationLinks = array ( array( 'text'=>'Home page', 'href'=>'WikiComics' ), array( 'text'=>'Ultime modifiche', 'href'=>'Speciale:Recentchanges' ), array( 'text'=>'Pagina a caso', 'href'=>'Speciale:Randompage' ), array( 'text'=>'Links', 'href'=>'Links' ), array( 'text'=>'Aiuto', 'href'=>'Aiuto' ), ); to "LocalSettings.php", but it don't works. How can I do it?
I think this configuration style is only available in the 1.4 beta releases. In version 1.3.x, some of the entries can be altered from the MediaWiki namespace (e.g. set [[MediaWiki:currentevents]] to the text and [[MediaWiki:currentevents-url]] to the target of a link to put in place of "Current events"; again, use [[Special:Allmessages]] to hunt these out), but I don't think there's an easy way of more thoroughly editting the list.
- I'm using the Italian language file, but in the user menu (in the top)
the program writes "[...] My contributions" in English and I didn't find it in the language file. Where is it?
That, it looks like, is [[MediaWiki:Mycontris]]