[Mediawiki-l] How do I change the default name of a namespace?

[Morten Blaabjerg]

I changed the namespace names back to their original names and things 
started working again...
However, the CSS of the wiki took permanent damage it seems - for all 
pages!! Very strange indeed IMO, as I didn't touch ANY css.

Can somebody explain what is going on?

Morten :-)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Morten Blaabjerg" <morten at crewscut.com>
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" 
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Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How do I change the default name of a namespace?


> Thanks. I changed the namespace names in the language files, but it causes
> me some problems...
>
> All old [[Image:filename.jpg]] links on individual pages still refer to 
> the
> [[Image:filename.jpg]] page, which now doesn't exist.
> Also, for some reason it fucks up the CSS for the new File: namespace
> pages...
>
> I have absolutely no idea on how to run a bot - is there a not overtly
> complicated way out of this?
>
> Best wishes,
> Morten :-)
>
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rotem Liss" <mail at rotemliss.com>
> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
> <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 5:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How do I change the default name of a 
> namespace?
>
>
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>> Morten Blaabjerg wrote:
>>> I want to change the default name of the "Image" namespace to something
>>> like "File"... as I find this more consistent with our use of the
>>> namespace now, when we begin to upload other kind of files than images.
>>>
>>> What is the best way to go around making this change?
>>
>> You can just change the namespace name in languages/Language.php, or
>> whatever langauge you use.
>>
>>> Will I have to go through the Sisyfos task of changing all the links
>>> pointing to [[Image:filename.jpg]]'s etc. ?
>>
>> You can run a bot instead, and you can preserve the "Image" namespace
>> name as a "redirect" to the "File" namespace instead of changing it
>> completely. To preserve it, just change the namespace name in
>> languages/Language.php.
>>
>> (I assume you refer to your local installation, not the whole software.)
>>
>> - --
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