On 06/06/07, Monahon, Peter B. Peter.Monahon@uspto.gov wrote:
Anyway, there are some synonyms in it which help resolve some ambiguities, but no directions to where to control the on-screen MediaWiki parts (not the contents of user contributed articles, but the on-screen parts of MediaWiki itself).
What I want is to know how to find what controls anything on a MediaWiki screen.
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Say the next user wants me to change the wording of the tabs across the top - where's the control for that?
I can tell in my experience that MediaWiki has poor documentation of this and you won't find any easy guide to this written yet (unless it was done in the last couple of months and I missed it :)). Translators, skin designers and all interface "tweakers" will face this problem of trying to figure out which "system message" (page in the MediaWiki namespace) maps to which message you see on your screen.
So, how I do it: * note the current value of the message * go to Special:Allmessage, use my browser's "find" feature to map the current value to the "current text" column. hopefully there will only be one match. * if there are multiple matches, try and guess from the message name which is the correct one. if I can't guess, try changing one (changing the content of the corresponding MediaWiki: page) and hitting refresh to see if the message on the screen changes. if it does, success. if it doesn't, try the next possible match.
HTH, Brianna