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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Jamie Bliss
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 4:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Failed adding Special:Wantedpages to
navigation bar
On 6/5/05, Carlton B <carltonb(a)mindspring.com> wrote:
When I tried to add Special:Wantedpages to the
navigation bar, the link
appears but it goes to a page called
"--error:_link_target_missing--".
This
is for This is for 1.4.3.
I followed the instructions to the letter, I think.
The article MediaWiki:Wantedpages already existed, and
contained the text
"Wanted pages." This works OK.
The article MediaWiki:Wantedpages-url did not exist. I created
it with the
text "Special:Wantedpage
Here is what I have in my LocalSettings.php:
$wgNavigationLinks = array (
array( 'text'=>'mainpage',
'href'=>'mainpage' ),
array( 'text'=>'recentchanges',
'href'=>'recentchanges-url' ),
array( 'text'=>'wantedpages',
'href'=>'wantedpages-url' ), #
Change is here
array( 'text'=>'randompage',
'href'=>'randompage-url' ),
array( 'text'=>'portal',
'href'=>'portal-url' ),
array( 'text'=>'currentevents',
'href'=>'currentevents-url' ),
array( 'text'=>'help',
'href'=>'helppage' ),
array( 'text'=>'sitesupport',
'href'=>'sitesupport-url' ),
);
The first time I did this, someone may have retrieved the page before
MediaWiki:Wantedpages-url existed.
What could have happened here? Did I get a bad value cached somewhere?
Works for me. If you think it's a caching issue, try logging in (IIRC,
full-page caching is only done with anonymous users).
Make sure that [[MediaWiki:Wantedpages-url]] has this text:
Special:Wantedpages
Here's the code I added to LocalSettings.php:
$wgNavigationLinks[] = array('text'=>'wantedpages',
'href'=>'wantedpages-url');
Does this help any? Are you using a non-english wiki? (Check the value
of {{ns:-1}})
Thanks Jamie; I've tried what you still suggested and got nowhere.
1) {{ns:1}} is set to Special
2) Logging in had no effect
3) After reading yours and others' examples, I can confirm that I followed
the instruction to the letter.
After observing this over time, I can say that sometimes the menu is being
substituted and sometimes it isn't. I'm having trouble reproducing it on
demand, but it is intermittently happening. I am wondering if this is
related to my as-yet unsolved issue where database message substitution only
works once per 60 seconds and then resets the clock.