First of all thanks to Michelle from this list I finally found out how to easily change the navbar/navbox. Since other people on this list seem to be confused about this same point I will post how to do it again. When i get a change I will add this info somewhere to wikimedia though I'm not sure where is a good place.
Let wikiname be your wiki's name, i.e. things in the project namespace are of the form wikiname:whatever.
Go to wikiname:All system messages . This will be a very long page. Search for the entry on the navbar that you wish to change. For instance if you wanted to change 'Community Portal' search for this. You will be presented a link to change the text displayed (in the case of community portal the variable is just portal). Nearby is another link to change the url, usually the variable name you just changed-url.
I'm not sure how to add *new* links. I think you may need to go out and edit SkinPHPTal.php and xhtml...stuff.
WARNING: These changes will not take effect immediatly. After I made my changes the very next page I displayed was updated but after that the change did not show up on later pages for another hour or more. This was what caused me so much confusion.
Peter
On Sep 19, 2004, at 8:21 PM, Peter Gerdes wrote:
Go to wikiname:All system messages .
As I mentioned in another message, this page is slow, sometimes broken, and no longer produced as of 1.3.3. Instead use [[Special:Allmessages]] which is the same thing but much faster and more reliable...
I'm not sure how to add *new* links. I think you may need to go out and edit SkinPHPTal.php and xhtml...stuff.
Basically there's not a convenient way yet. You got to do the... stuff. :P Hopefully someone will have a chance to code up an easier way for 1.4. (This is a hint to your would-be coders out there...)
The more or less easily editable ones are the 'community portal' and the site support link (set URL in $wgSiteSupportPage in LocalSettings.php, and customize the link text in [[MediaWiki:Sitesupport]].
WARNING: These changes will not take effect immediatly. After I made my changes the very next page I displayed was updated but after that the change did not show up on later pages for another hour or more. This was what caused me so much confusion.
All MediaWiki: messages changes made through the wiki should take effect immediately. However, pages cached by your browser will still show old text until you force a reload. (Hitting the 'refresh' button usually is insufficient if the page itself hasn't been marked as changed due to an edit or related page edit.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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