Re: rebuilding system messages in 1.4

Alistair Johnson wrote:
> I'm missing something obvious - how do I rebuild the system messages in 1.4?
>
> In 1.3 I would call "php.exe rebuildmessages.php" which would do the job for
> me.  But in 1.4 I get prompted to update or rebuild.  From the description
> provided for these I'm not sure which one does what :-(

In 1.3 you would receive this prompt on running that script without
parameters:

1. Update messages to include latest additions to Language.php
2. Delete all messages and reinitialise namespace
3. Quit

Please enter a number:


This interactive prompt has been replaced in 1.4 with a required
command-line option (it used to be optional, now required) to specify
the action. This was done for two reasons: first, frequent output
buffering problems, particularly for some running on Windows, made the
prompt highly unreliable. This lead to a number of support requests
where people were unable to see the prompt and reported the script
simply hanging. Second, a prompt is generally hard to work with in a
scripting environment where hundreds of wikis are run in bulk; since
that's MediaWiki's primary target, I changed it to a more standard
command-line interface.

The two available actions, however, are exactly the same as they were in
1.3:

Action must be one of:
  --update   Update messages to include latest additions to Language.php
  --rebuild  Delete all messages and reinitialise namespace


Update (--update) will not change any messages which were last edited by
some actual user; it will only update those last edited by 'Mediawiki
default' (those imported on install or when running rebuildMessages.php
or update.php previously).

Rebuild (--rebuild) will wipe out and replace *every* defined message
page in the database with the Language*.php definition.

> What do I need to call to simply refresh the messages based on our updated
> Special:Allmessages ?

Special:Allmessages is a list of messages comparing the defined defaults
from the Language*.php files with the contents of the MediaWiki:
messages. When you edit a MediaWiki: message page, the message cache
_should_ automatically update from your edit to that page. You shouldn't
have to do anything special or separate. If you are having trouble
though, try a --rebuild.

Also check that the language selections are correct. There may be
oddities if user preferences are somehow set for the wrong language.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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