[Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-08 Thread Peter Adams
How does one change the page title template used for main page? I saw that the latest version of mediawiki release notes mentioned a property called 'Mediawiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage', however editing that alone doesn't seem to do the trick. I'd prefer not to hack the template class/files if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-08 Thread Remember the dot
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Peter Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How does one change the page title template used for main page? > > I saw that the latest version of mediawiki release notes mentioned a > property called 'Mediawiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage', however editing > that alone do

Re: [Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Adams
Thanks. That is what i thought. however editing that page under my MediaWiki install doesn't seem to make the change show up. I'm running 1.13.1 . Also, MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpagedoesn't seem to be listed under: http://recyclepedia.org/index.php?title=Special:AllMessages . is that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-09 Thread Aran
You might need to set $wgUseDatabaseMessages to true for that to take effect: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseDatabaseMessages Peter Adams wrote: > Thanks. That is what i thought. however editing that page under my > MediaWiki install doesn't seem to make the change show up. I'm runn

Re: [Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Adams
Really? Happy to write patch if thats the case as I'd rather not take the performance hit to have a db hit per message. Does wikipedia do this that way? -P- On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Aran wrote: > You might need to set $wgUseDatabaseMessages to true for that to take > effect: > http://www.me

Re: [Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-10 Thread Platonides
Peter Adams wrote: > Really? Happy to write patch if thats the case as I'd rather not take > the performance hit to have a db hit per message. > Does wikipedia do this that way? > > -P- If you want any of the MediaWiki:* message changes to work, you MUST have $wgUseDatabaseMessages to true. It

Re: [Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-10 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Peter Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really? Happy to write patch if thats the case as I'd rather not take > the performance hit to have a db hit per message. > Does wikipedia do this that way? $wgUseDatabaseMessages is true by default, so if you didn't explici

Re: [Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Adams
if it's true by default then there is still a missing step...as this is not working for me. I just tried adding a 'wgUseDatabaseMessages = true;' to my LocalSettings as well and still see no change. I can change other messages listed at Special:AllMessages no problem. However 'Pagetitle-vi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-10 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Peter Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if it's true by default then there is still a missing step...as this > is not working for me. > > I just tried adding a 'wgUseDatabaseMessages = true;' to my > LocalSettings as well and still see no change. > > I can change

Re: [Wikitech-l] Altering main page title via Pagetitle-view-mainpage property

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Adams
Yikes. Thanks Aryeh. That certainly explains things. -P- On Dec 10, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Peter Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> if it's true by default then there is still a missing step...as this >> is not working for me. >> >> I just t