[Mediawiki-l] Wikipeadia Name Change

[Brion Vibber]

On Dec 6, 2004, at 3:43 PM, John Spikowski wrote:
> Is there a way to change the name from Wikipeadia to something else. 
> The
> word is use extensively through the wiki.

In the current 1.3 release:

$ grep -i wikipedia Language.php
# See http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
         NS_WIKIPEDIA        => $wgMetaNamespace,
         NS_WIKIPEDIA_TALK   => $wgMetaNamespace . '_talk',
"mainpagedocfooter" => "Please see 
[http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on 
customizing the interface]
and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's 
Guide] for usage and configuration help.",
"aboutwikipedia" => "About {{SITENAME}}",
"fromwikipedia" => "From {{SITENAME}}",
'wikipediapage' => 'View project page',
'searchingwikipedia' => "Searching {{SITENAME}}",

As you can see the only appearances of "Wikipedia" are in some of the 
internal tokens (most of which have in fact already been changed in 
1.4) and in the URL to the help pages added to the initial main page.

Some of the localizations have not been thoroughly genericized yet (but 
they should be much better in 1.4 than they are in 1.3). You can do 
some search and replace if necessary.

If you configured your wiki to have the $wgSitename = 'Wikipedia', then 
obviously you'll want to change that or, indeed, 'Wikipedia' will 
appear everywhere. If your database comes from an older version the 
word might have gotten stuck into the messages written in the database. 
You can use maintenance/rebuildMessages.php to re-import them. (This 
issue is noted in the FAQ.)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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