[Mediawiki-l] Failed adding Special:Wantedpages to navigation bar

[Carlton B]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Jamie Bliss
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 4:04 AM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Failed adding Special:Wantedpages to
> navigation bar
>
>
> On 6/5/05, Carlton B <carltonb at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > When I tried to add Special:Wantedpages to the navigation bar, the link
> > appears but it goes to a page called
> "--error:_link_target_missing--".  This
> > is for This is for 1.4.3.
> >
> > I followed the instructions to the letter, I think.
> >
> > The article MediaWiki:Wantedpages already existed, and
> contained the text
> > "Wanted pages."  This works OK.
> > The article MediaWiki:Wantedpages-url did not exist.  I created
> it with the
> > text "Special:Wantedpage
> >
> > Here is what I have in my LocalSettings.php:
> > $wgNavigationLinks = array (
> >         array( 'text'=>'mainpage',   'href'=>'mainpage' ),
> >         array( 'text'=>'recentchanges', 'href'=>'recentchanges-url' ),
> >         array( 'text'=>'wantedpages', 'href'=>'wantedpages-url' ),   #
> > Change is here
> >         array( 'text'=>'randompage', 'href'=>'randompage-url' ),
> >         array( 'text'=>'portal',     'href'=>'portal-url' ),
> >         array( 'text'=>'currentevents', 'href'=>'currentevents-url' ),
> >         array( 'text'=>'help',               'href'=>'helppage' ),
> >         array( 'text'=>'sitesupport',
> 'href'=>'sitesupport-url' ),
> > );
> >
> > The first time I did this, someone may have retrieved the page before
> > MediaWiki:Wantedpages-url existed.
> > What could have happened here?   Did I get a bad value cached somewhere?
>
> Works for me. If you think it's a caching issue, try logging in (IIRC,
> full-page caching is only done with anonymous users).
>
> Make sure that [[MediaWiki:Wantedpages-url]] has this text:
> Special:Wantedpages
>
> Here's the code I added to LocalSettings.php:
>  $wgNavigationLinks[] = array('text'=>'wantedpages',
> 'href'=>'wantedpages-url');
>
> Does this help any? Are you using a non-english wiki? (Check the value
> of {{ns:-1}})

Thanks Jamie; I've tried what you still suggested and got nowhere.
1) {{ns:1}} is set to Special
2) Logging in had no effect
3) After reading yours and others' examples, I can confirm that I followed
the instruction to the letter.

After observing this over time, I can say that sometimes the menu is being
substituted and sometimes it isn't.  I'm having trouble reproducing it on
demand, but it is intermittently happening.   I am wondering if this is
related to my as-yet unsolved issue where database message substitution only
works once per 60 seconds and then resets the clock.