customizing messages

what is the best way to customize the messages seen on the
interface? it
looks like you can either do things through the php files
like
messagesEn.php, or through the things in the database using
the
MediaWiki namespace.  I'm not sure which one to use.

The changes I am looking to make right now are changing what
it says on
the Talk tab (instead of "discussion") for one of
my custom namespaces,
as well as adding things to the navigation bar.

I think that if you use messagesEn.php, then you have to
turn
$wgUseDatabaseMessages off, and that disables the stuff you
do through
the MediaWiki namespace, but I'm not sure.

which should I use for this and future customizations? 
thanks!

  -- Dave (posted for him by JTG: his don't post for some
reason)
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On 25/12/06, Jan Theodore Galkowski <jtgalkowskialum.mit.edu> wrote:
> what is the best way to customize the messages seen on
the interface? it
> looks like you can either do things through the php
files like
> messagesEn.php, or through the things in the database
using the
> MediaWiki namespace.  I'm not sure which one to use.

MediaWiki namespace.

> The changes I am looking to make right now are changing
what it says on
> the Talk tab (instead of "discussion") for
one of my custom namespaces,
> as well as adding things to the navigation bar.

MediaWiki:Nstab-<namespace>

> I think that if you use messagesEn.php, then you have
to turn
> $wgUseDatabaseMessages off, and that disables the stuff
you do through
> the MediaWiki namespace, but I'm not sure.

Yes to both.

> which should I use for this and future customizations? 
thanks!

As above.


Rob Church
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