[Wikipedia-l] Preferences

[Andre Engels]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Guillaume Blanchard (Aoineko) wrote:

> Hello,
> Can we have a [[Wikipedia:Preferences]] page that will be the header of the
> [[Special:Preferences]] page ? (like [[Wikipedia:RecentChanges]] and
> [[Special:RecentChanges]]).
> In fact it may be very cool if all [[Special:xxx]] started with an include
> of [[Wikipedia:xxx]].
> It may be very useful especially for localize (no-english Wikipedia)
> specification to add explication and links.
> How?

Localizing is still possible, although the process is slower, by changing
the LanguageXx.php file; the text you are writing about for example can be
found in the "prefslogintext". In fact, Danish, English, Dutch and Polish
have already taken the step of adding a link to a page explaining the various
options there.

Andre Engels