Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikipeadia Name Change

On Dec 6, 2004, at 3:43 PM, John Spikowski wrote: 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)