[Mediawiki-l] messed with xhtml_slim.pt, permissions error

Fri Nov 19 15:39:43 UTC 2004

When I was messing around with the nav box, I found this site to be really helpful.
http://wise-nano.org/w/Programming_notes

One thing this guy notes is this:
"Community portal and current events can be turned off by editing the appropriate system-message string. The comment in the Language file is WRONG. Don't set the strings to "", set them to "-". That's easy to see from the code in SkinPHPTal. "

-----Original Message-----
From: Rowan Collins [mailto:rowan.collins at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 6:57 AM
To: Chris Lott; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] messed with xhtml_slim.pt, permissions error

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:39:03 -0900, Chris Lott <chris.lott at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought I would get tricky and strip the lines out of the
> xhtml_slim.pt template for the Community Portal in the navigation
> section. Once I did that, I started getting a stream error
> (permissions problem):

Hm, have you accidentally changed the file's permission bits?
Otherwise, I've no idea.

But I wanted to point out that, once you get the template working
again, there's an easier way to do this anyway: setting the name of
the portal link to be empty [""] should hide it completely. I'm afraid
I don't have a 1.3 install working to play with, but although
languages/Language.php suggests you do it there, I suspect you
actually need to do it in the database by blanking the
[[MediaWiki:Portal]] article in the wiki.

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]
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