[Mediawiki-l] Help for a new mediawiki installation

[Zigger]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:59:47 +0000, Rowan Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:03:58 +0100, Alessandro Ronchi wrote:
> > ...
> > - How can I change the default menu's links?
> 
> I'm guessing you're referring to the "sidebar" menu on every page here
> - in which case the answer is:
> * for MediaWiki 1.3.x, you can change *some* of the links through the
> MediaWiki namespace (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:MediaWiki
> namespace), e.g. by editting [[MediaWiki:Currentevents]] and
> [[MediaWiki:Currentevents-url]], you can change the text and target,
> respectively, of the link normally called (in English) "Current
> Events". Use [[Special:Allmessages]] to find these.
> 
> * for MediaWiki 1.4.x (in beta), there is an array, something like
> $wgNavigationLinks I think, that you can copy from
> includes/DefaultSettings.php into your LocalSettings.php, where you
> can specify your own pairs of messages (as in [[MediaWiki:foo]],
> [[MediaWiki:Foo-url]]).
> 
> This should really be in the FAQ, but I'm too in need of a
> screen-break to type it up nicely this minute...
> ...

Links:
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Customization:Quickbar
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ

-- Zigger