Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:41:14 UTC
Just amazed at all the nooks and crannies $wgSitename is cached. $ echo -n Project_Talk:Community_Portal|php deleteBatch.php 中車討論:Community Portal What do you mean 中車? Months ago I changed it to 中公!, as can be seen via Special:Export: <title>中公討論:Community Portal</title> All in all, things still run OK. It's just that there are too many scattered disturbing old $wgSitename cached places. One could Rebuild_this and Rebuild_that but ... it's not my fault.
Unable to reproduce the reported case. Steps taken: 1. Install a fresh checkout of MediaWiki 1.7.1 2. Verify the resolved location of Project:Community_portal 3. Change $wgSitename in LocalSettings.php 4. Verify the resolved location of Project:Community_portal Works for me. Links in sidebar are updated, usual caches are cleared and the page goes where I expect it to.
Was this 1.7.1 wiki upgraded from earlier branches at any point? I recall that some language files used to directly concatenate $wgSitename, which has the effect that, when the MediaWiki namespace is initialised, the site name is hardcoded into the page. This was corrected, for the most part, by replacing this with {{SITENAME}} wherever it occurred, which causes the variable to be saved, and corrects the behaviour. If this *is* the case, then rebuildMessages.php would help the situation, but you seem to be adverse to running maintenance scripts.
