[Resurrecting old unanswered question]
I'm attempting to change the login message. I edited MediaWiki:Login prompt as I was
advised by Brion, but the edits do not appear on Special:Userlogin... not by normally
logging in, nor by directly navigating to Special:Userlogin
What have I done wrong? How can I make this change appear?
Thanks,
Carlton
-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Brion Vibber
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:43 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Disabling account creation
Carlton B wrote:
Thanks Brion... still having problems though.
The text of [[MediaWiki:Loginprompt]] is: "You must have
cookies enabled
to log in to Takipedia."
I need to change that, but it doesn't hide the fields that a
user could use
to create a new account.
If you have set $wgWhitelistAccount to disable user account creation,
those form controls will not be shown.
Also make sure you're looking at the page as an anonymous user to
confirm you're looking at the correct display.
Is Special:Userlogin the page to edit, and if so,
how is it
possible to edit
it? Even when logged in as a sysop, this page
has no edit tabs.
There is not a page Special:Userlogin that you can edit; it's generated
by code. All the interface text on the special pages comes from the
language-specific messages, which are imported into the database at
install time and are editable as the various MediaWiki: pages. These are
all listed at Special:Allmessages.
If you really, really need to change the layout of Special:Userlogin,
take a look at includes/templates/Userlogin.php. However I don't think
you need to touch anything in there to do what you've asked about.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)