Peter Adams wrote:
Really? Happy to write patch if thats the case as I'd rather not take the performance hit to have a db hit per message. Does wikipedia do this that way?
-P-
If you want any of the MediaWiki:* message changes to work, you MUST have $wgUseDatabaseMessages to true.
It's not a db hit *per message*, but one (all messages are fetch at loading).
Wikipedia does it this way, but it isn't really hitting the db, as the contents are cached at memcached.
If you don't want to change values at the MediaWiki namespace, you can modify them by editing the proper language file.