Tim Starling wrote:

Timwi wrote:

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Hello,

I'm trying to use the MediaWiki namespace on my new installation of MediaWiki.

Unfortunately, {{msg:Blah}} is being replaced by nothing (i.e. it is just being removed) even though [[MediaWiki:Blah]] does contain text.

What might the cause of this be?

Thanks again for any help, Timwi

You need to put the following in LocalSettings.php: $wgUseDatabaseMessages = true; This could probably be called a bug.

Thanks for your help. The thread has progressed a bit further on the mediawiki-l mailing list (sorry about posting this here when it really belonged there; thanks to Angela for pointing out to me that there exists this other mailing list). It seems that this option enables the {{msg:}} functionality *AND* the use of the MediaWiki namespace for all the user interface messages. I think those should be separate.

Timwi