[Mediawiki-l] Re: monobook include: passing variable

[Daniel Kinzler]

Hello François

> I have never used this type of
> document and don't really know what to do. Are the line beginning with a
> "+" to add to my existing files or on the contrary, are they to be
> commented out.

The file attached is a patch file: on a linux/unix box (on windows, too, 
if you install the tools needed), you can apply it by going into the 
includes folder, and typing this:

   patch < detectlang.diff

this will apply all changes to the appropriate files. Note that the 
patch was created for CVS HEAD, i.e. MediaWiki 1.6 - but you can try it 
on 1.5 also, it will proably work (if not, the patch program will return 
an error message).

On the french wikipedia (I assume you are/speak french?), I found this 
link for some explanations about patches: 
<http://www.labo-linux.org/index.php?page=lumieres&id=345>. I don't 
speak french, so I don't know if it's any good.

You can also apply the patch by hand: remove lines that start with "-", 
add lines that start with "+". Everything else is just for orientation. 
For a simple patch like this one, that may work.


In any case, please note that this patch is expermimental. No Guaranties...

> Another thing, as you seem to know a lot about the inside of the
> language files in mediawiki. I've seen somewhere an instruction
> "loadfromdatabase" or something, that I should set to false in
> localsetting.php to easily enable the changing of the interface
> language. Do you know what that could be ?

Well, my inside knowled of MediaWiki is patchwork - I know a bit about 
some parts, and nothing about others. I belive setting loadfromdatabase 
to false will disable support for custom messages via the MediaWiki 
namespace, i.e. all messages would come from the language files and 
would not be changable through the web interface. I don't think that 
would help you much. But I may be completely wrong on both issues (what 
it does and if it would help you).

Regards,
-- Daniel

PS: maybe join the IRC channel #mediawiki on freenode.net and ask 
there... many developers hang out there, including me.