Tim Starling has fixed a few final bugs in this feature that's been in
development and it should now be active on the various wikis.
Most of the user interface messages can now be modified directly by
editing a special page in the 'MediaWiki:' namespace. Since this can be
somewhat dangerous these pages are protected and editing is restricted
to sysops.
So far this feature does not completely replace the LanguageXx.php
files, but it should make it a lot easier to get most things adjusted
without the delay of contacting the developers to get new versions of
language files tested and installed. Additionally, custom messages may
be used to insert common reusable bits of text into articles.
For some documentation, see:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-Wikimedia:MediaWiki_namespace
and on the English wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MediaWiki_namespace
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)