I've recently installed the latest version of MediaWiki on a dev server. I wanted to add some information on the edit page, and for this needed to modify an existing .php file to add in some more text.
I used grep to find which file contained the text I wanted to change. It turned out to be languages/messages/MessagesEn.php. I found the text and changed it to what I wanted it to be.
I only ended up adding a couple lines of extra information that lies right below the copyright notice on "edit" pages. Now I can't get to the homepage of my wiki.
Does anyone know why this is? MediaWiki is open source so changing the source code shouldn't be a big deal. I thought maybe there was some kind of checksum check and seeing as I modified the file, MediaWiki panicked when it saw the file didn't have the same checksum.
Ideas?
edit: I removed the text I added to the file and MediaWiki is back in business. This shows that the text I added was/is the issue. I still want that text there, so my question is still valid.
update:
Here is the bit I'm editing:
'copyrightwarning' => "Please note that all contributions to {{SITENAME}} are considered to be released under the $2 (see $1 for details).
If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.<br />
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource.
'''Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!'''",
'copyrightwarning2' => "Please note that all contributions to {{SITENAME}} may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors.
If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.<br />
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see $1 for details).
'''Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!'''",
I'm changing the text to something like this:
'copyrightwarning' => "Please note that all contributions to {{SITENAME}} are considered to be released under the $2 (see $1 for details).
If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.<br />
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource.
'''Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!''' **blah blah blah blah**",
'copyrightwarning2' => "Please note that all contributions to {{SITENAME}} may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors.
If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.<br />
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see $1 for details).
'''Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!''' **blah blah blah blah**",
Is there a reason MediaWiki is panicking here? I'll try to provide as much information as possible on this, but I'm not at the office again until Monday. Thanks
