On Tue, 2005-01-03 at 15:30 -0600, Wes Mauer wrote:
I've looked around the site and through the archives, but I have not found how you can change the license message from within WikiMedia. What I am looking to do, is remove the GFDL text that appears in the bottom of my Wiki, and replace it with a notice indicating that the material (documents) is property of my employer. If anyone could point me to some documentation on how to do this, that would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
First off, I've moved the conversation to the mediawiki-l list, where MediaWiki support info goes.
Second, any time you want to replace any text in MediaWiki, look in the languages/Language.php file (for English) or the languages/LanguageXX.php file, where XX is the two-letter language code (LanguageDe.php is the German-language file, for example).
Third, the entry you need is 'gnunote' in the language file.
~Evan
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:08:46 -0500, Evan Prodromou evan@bad.dynu.ca wrote:
Second, any time you want to replace any text in MediaWiki, look in the languages/Language.php file (for English) or the languages/LanguageXX.php file, where XX is the two-letter language code (LanguageDe.php is the German-language file, for example).
No. Don't do that. 99% of the content of the LanguageXX.php files is loaded into the MediaWiki: namespace when you first install, and ignored from then on. This is only not the case for the new feature that lets logged in users select a translation their own interface - if they choose something other than the site-wide default, it will then come straight from the Language file. So you should always look in [[Special:Allmessages]] and edit the appropriate wiki page. Or am I missing something here?
Come to think, unless I *am* missing something, this is kind of awkward with respect to important things like license notes, but maybe there's a different way of editting those that takes effect in all languages (one of those cryptic $1 substitutions in the mesage, for instance). If not, maybe there should be.
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