[Mediawiki-l] Renaming a mediawiki?

Jamie Bliss astronouth7303 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 20:22:42 UTC 2004


yes, $wgSitename is the name of the site. However, all the template
messages were changed by the installation script (probably for
performance reasons). So if you change $wgSitename, you will probably
have to change all  the templates, too.

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:36:00 -0800, Nick Triantos <nick at triantos.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know the cleanest way to rename a whole wiki?  I'm guessing
> that I'll change LocalSettings.php to update the $wgSiteName, and also
> perhaps rename the name of the mysql database.  But I also see things
> like, for example, that in Special:Allmessages, the "wikititlesuffix"
> string is changed from the default of "{{SITENAME}}" to my wiki name.  I
> don't know why, I certainly never changed a bunch of those system
> messages, were they set to include the literal name of my site when the
> databases were first created?
> 
> thanks for any advice,
> -Nick
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