Re: [Wikitech-l] Questions about installing

Jimmy Wales wrote: My understanding is that wikiTextEn.php is going to contain all the default values. For the other-language versions, alternate server name, character set, message strings, etc. will be set in e.g. wikiTextDe.php or wikiTextPl.php. The theory is that anything that's *not* set in the language-specific file will get the default value; thus if a new feature is added that needs a message string $wikiFooBar, the English message defined in wikiTextEn.php will show up, rather than nothing, if the local wikiTextXx.php isn't updated. Ultimately, wikiText.php should probably be nothing more than: include("wikiTextEn.php"); include("wikiTextSomeOtherLanguage.php"); Anything additional in that file might be for site-specific data; for instance if somebody sets up a read-only mirror of Wikipedia, they could customize just that file to include their alternate server name, a title string that links to the live 'pedia, and a hypothetical refuse-all-edits option. But then, should it be called wikiText.php at all? Would wikiSettings.php make more sense, maybe? Yeah, that's a little vague and needs to be worked out in better detail. I think the wikiTextEn.php defaults should be what you're actually using on the English wikipedia! -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)