[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#513903: mediawiki: Some mechanism or to point the Help pages to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:* would be handy.

[Tim Small]

Package: mediawiki
Version: 1:1.12.0-2lenny1
Severity: wishlist

There is currently no documentation for how to populate, or redirect the
help pages (which are empty by default).  I believe the way to redirect
the links currently is to edit
/usr/share/mediawiki/languages/messages/Messages*.php and redirect the
Help:xyz links to the corresponding
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:xyz

Obviously editing a non-config file like this is a bit hacky...

Thanks,

Tim.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mediawiki depends on:
ii  apache2            2.2.9-10+lenny2       Apache HTTP Server metapackage
ii  apache2-mpm-prefor 2.2.9-10+lenny2       Apache HTTP Server - traditional n
ii  debconf [debconf-2 1.5.24                Debian configuration management sy
ii  mime-support       3.44-1                MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  php5               5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php5-mysql         5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2 MySQL module for php5

Versions of packages mediawiki recommends:
ii  mysql-server-5.0 [ 5.0.51a-21            MySQL database server binaries
ii  php5-cli           5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2 command-line interpreter for the p

Versions of packages mediawiki suggests:
ii  clamav          0.94.dfsg.2-1            anti-virus utility for Unix - comm
ii  imagemagick     7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-3~lenny1 image manipulation programs
pn  mediawiki-math  <none>                   (no description available)
pn  memcached       <none>                   (no description available)
ii  php5-gd         5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2    GD module for php5

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