I thought I'd answer my question here in case anyone comes looking for it..

So, the tutorial DOES work just fine, but newbies should bear in mind that capitalization is extremely important. I found that the line:

SpecialPage::SpecialPage( 'Pagename' );

won't work unless Pagename is capitalized! Likewise, it won't list properly on the special pages list unless you do like the nice tutorial author says and not capitalize the part before the arrow on the call to addMessages().

-andrea

On 9/14/05, Andrea Forte andrea.forte@gmail.com wrote:

This tutorial works insofar as it adds a new special page to my list of special pages, but when you try to GO to the special page it doesn't exist...

Does anyone see a problem in the tutorial? It seems like it should work to me... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page