Brion,
Thank you for your help. I did in fact have $wgUseDatabaseMessage set
to false, and I'm not sure why--but it has now been corrected, and
editing MediaWiki:newpageletter now behaves as it should.
Harlan Landes
Brion Vibber wrote:
DrumCorpsWiki:newpageletter would not do anything,
unless you've
altered Language.php to change the name of the MediaWiki: namespace.
(I highly recommend against doing that.) Nor should the site name have
ever been "MediaWiki" -- if it somehow was set that way, this may have
caused conflicts which broke the database entries. Check that the
MediaWiki: entries in fact have cur_namespace set to 8.
If the message pages are in their correct place, changing a message in
Language.php will normally have no effect. Have you set
$wgUseDatabaseMessages = false ? This obviously will disable the use
of the custom messages from the wiki.
Also, when testing changes please confirm that you're not just seeing
cached pages with the old value.
Consider also upgrading your files to 1.3.1, as there are a number of
bug fixes from 1.3.0.