wikisysop(a)drumcorpswiki.com wrote:
I'm having a slight problem with the MediaWiki
system I installed.
According to documentation, I should be able to edit messages within the
language by editing pages such as MediaWiki:newpageletter, in this case to
change the way a new page is designated in the "recently updated" log.
After installing I changed the variable that names the website in
LocalSettings.php from MediaWiki to DrumCorpsWiki.
Editing neither MediaWiki:newpageletter nor DrumCorpsWiki:newpageletter
actually changes the display.
DrumCorpsWiki:newpageletter would not do anything, unless you've altered
Language.php to change the name of the MediaWiki: namespace. (I highly
recommend against doing that.) Nor should the site name have ever been
"MediaWiki" -- if it somehow was set that way, this may have caused
conflicts which broke the database entries. Check that the MediaWiki:
entries in fact have cur_namespace set to 8.
If the message pages are in their correct place, changing a message in
Language.php will normally have no effect. Have you set
$wgUseDatabaseMessages = false ? This obviously will disable the use of
the custom messages from the wiki.
Also, when testing changes please confirm that you're not just seeing
cached pages with the old value.
Consider also upgrading your files to 1.3.1, as there are a number of
bug fixes from 1.3.0.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)