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More help on changing navbar
Alright, I realize this has been discussed before but the last person
who asked the question wasn't answered on the list and it is exactly
this answer that I need.

What I am trying to do is change the Community Portal link to point to
another page (WikiRPG:Design Deciscions). Looking at the suggestion
in digest 12 issue 3 I tried editing

xhtml_slim.pt

Specifically I changed the following line:
<li id="n-portal" tal:condition="nav_urls/portal/href"><a
href="${nav_urls/portal/href}"
i18n:translate="string:portal">Community Portal</a></li>

Just to see if I was doing the right thing the first thing i tried was
just changing the link name. However, this didn't work and nothing
changed on my site (I waited awhile and reloaded).

Am I modifying the wrong thing? Do I need to run one of the
maintenence scripts? Unfortunatly i simply can't find *any*
documentation on the maintence scripts or whatever.

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As a secondary suggestions it seems that MediaWiki would really
benefit from a wiki describing these configuration issues. If I do
get an answer to this question and want to put it in a wiki would the
meta.wikimedia.org help pages be appropriate or is this information
too technical. Or am I missing some really obvious help site?

Peter
Re: More help on changing navbar [ In reply to ]
You can put in whatever you want for the URL and it will take effect
right away. To change the text you have to modify it via your

<your url here>MediaWiki:All_system_messages

page. Here is the page that is usually given as reference for this
question:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace

Michelle


On Sep 19, 2004, at 11:00 AM, Peter Gerdes wrote:

> Alright, I realize this has been discussed before but the last person
> who asked the question wasn't answered on the list and it is exactly
> this answer that I need.
>
> What I am trying to do is change the Community Portal link to point to
> another page (WikiRPG:Design Deciscions). Looking at the suggestion
> in digest 12 issue 3 I tried editing
>
Re: More help on changing navbar [ In reply to ]
> On Sep 19, 2004, at 11:00 AM, Peter Gerdes wrote:
> > What I am trying to do is change the Community Portal link to point to
> > another page (WikiRPG:Design Deciscions). Looking at the suggestion
> > in digest 12 issue 3 I tried editing

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:10:03 -0700, Michelle <mme2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
> You can put in whatever you want for the URL and it will take effect
> right away. To change the text you have to modify it via your
>
> <your url here>MediaWiki:All_system_messages

Specifically, modify the page "MediaWiki:Portal" to read "Design
Decisions", and (so long as you make sure to clear your cache) the
link should change.

--
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]
Re: More help on changing navbar [ In reply to ]
On Sep 19, 2004, at 11:10 AM, Michelle wrote:
> You can put in whatever you want for the URL and it will take effect
> right away. To change the text you have to modify it via your
>
> <your url here>MediaWiki:All_system_messages

That page is obsolete and no longer created as of 1.3.3: it was very
slow and unreliable. Instead, use the wiki's [[Special:Allmessages]].
It's the same thing, but it's faster and it actually works when things
like the base URL are changed.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)