On 19/12/05, Jan Vanoverpelt jan.vanoverpelt@gmail.com wrote:

After installation of the Mediawiki-software, I changed the default "English" language into Dutch by changing $wgLanguageCode in localsettings.php AND by setting $wgUseDatabaseMessages=false in defaultsettings.php (the latter had to be done in order to see the changes, like is indicated in the Mediawiki-FAQ).

Hm, you're the second person recently to misunderstand / not fully appreciate the effect of $wgUseDatabaseMessages, perhaps some documentation needs clarifying somewhere... By setting this option, you have switched off the "MediaWiki:" namespace, so that interface messages will be taken straight from the (in your case) LanguageNl.php file.

neither can I change the content of the navigation bar.

This is where the misunderstanding comes in - you can change whatever you like, _by changing the LanguageNl.php file_. It's not as easy as using the wiki-based way, obviously, but you just need to find and change the "'sidebar' =>" line in that file. You'll also have to be careful not to overwrite your changes when upgrading, but as a compromise this seems workable.

to run the script rebuildMessages.php in the maintenance-folder.

If you could manage to do this, you would be able to switch $wgDatabaseMessages back to true (in fact, you may need to do so first), but whether executing with your FTP program will work, I don't know. I think that script requires some command-line arguments (view the source for what), and you'll also need to create an "AdminSettings.php" file (see "AdminSettings.sample").

-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

Jan Vanoverpelt schrieb:

Dear,

After installation of the Mediawiki-software, I changed the default "English" language into Dutch by changing $wgLanguageCode in localsettings.php AND by setting $wgUseDatabaseMessages=false in defaultsettings.php (the latter had to be done in order to see the changes, like is indicated in the Mediawiki-FAQ).

My problem is that because $wgUseDatabaseMessages=false, I cannot display the page "special:allmessages" anymore, neither can I change the content of the navigation bar. As a solution for this problem, the FAQ-answer proposes to run the script rebuildMessages.php in the maintenance-folder. I did this by running an FTP-program, selecting the remote file and pressing "execute" but without any results.

Does anyone know how I can fix this problem so I am allowed to see the page special:allmessages and change the content of the navigation bar while I still have my wiki-site in the Dutch language?

thanks in advance!

Have a look on http://en.giswiki.de I made use of

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ#Using_a_wikipage_as_a_source_fo...

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/

-> MediaWiki_FAQ#Using_a_wikipage_as_a_source_for_a_navigation_bar