Hi all,
Does anyone know the cleanest way to rename a whole wiki? I'm guessing that I'll change LocalSettings.php to update the $wgSiteName, and also perhaps rename the name of the mysql database. But I also see things like, for example, that in Special:Allmessages, the "wikititlesuffix" string is changed from the default of "{{SITENAME}}" to my wiki name. I don't know why, I certainly never changed a bunch of those system messages, were they set to include the literal name of my site when the databases were first created?
thanks for any advice, -Nick
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:36:00 -0800, Nick Triantos nick@triantos.com wrote:
Does anyone know the cleanest way to rename a whole wiki? I'm guessing that I'll change LocalSettings.php to update the $wgSiteName
Yes, theoretically, that's it.
perhaps rename the name of the mysql database.
This shouldn't efffect anything. IIRC, the default is "wikidb" anyway.
... changed from the default of "{{SITENAME}}" to my wiki name. I don't know why, I certainly never changed a bunch of those system messages, were they set to include the literal name of my site when the databases were first created?
Yes, this was a bug in earlier versions of the software (as in, I believed it's fixed in version > 1.3.5, but that's no good for you, because you've installed already) where lots of messages had variables substituted in during the install, rather than referring to the variables like {{SITENAME}}. AFAIK, there are two 'solutions' to this: 1) do a search and replace, either using SQL, or manually editing the MediaWiki: pages, as listed on Special:Allmessages 2) upgrade the software (recommended anyway, since a number of security vulnerabilities have been fixed recently) and then reset all the messages to their defaults, using "maintenance/rebuildMessages.php". Obviously, you'll then need to re-customise anything in the MediaWiki: namespace that you had customised.
Note that I've never done this myself, but from memory of what I've read, that's about the shape of it.
yes, $wgSitename is the name of the site. However, all the template messages were changed by the installation script (probably for performance reasons). So if you change $wgSitename, you will probably have to change all the templates, too.
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:36:00 -0800, Nick Triantos nick@triantos.com wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know the cleanest way to rename a whole wiki? I'm guessing that I'll change LocalSettings.php to update the $wgSiteName, and also perhaps rename the name of the mysql database. But I also see things like, for example, that in Special:Allmessages, the "wikititlesuffix" string is changed from the default of "{{SITENAME}}" to my wiki name. I don't know why, I certainly never changed a bunch of those system messages, were they set to include the literal name of my site when the databases were first created?
thanks for any advice, -Nick _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
On Wed, 2004-24-11 at 11:36 -0800, Nick Triantos wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know the cleanest way to rename a whole wiki? I'm guessing that I'll change LocalSettings.php to update the $wgSiteName, and also perhaps rename the name of the mysql database.
You probably don't have to change the name of the mysql database, unless the name on the browser cookies bothers you a lot.
But I also see things like, for example, that in Special:Allmessages, the "wikititlesuffix" string is changed from the default of "{{SITENAME}}" to my wiki name. I don't know why, I certainly never changed a bunch of those system messages, were they set to include the literal name of my site when the databases were first created?
Yes.
You should run rebuildMessage.php in the maintenance directory. That should refresh the messages namespace with the stuff you have in Language.php. Note that this will stomp on any database messages that you did customize in the database.
~ESP
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