Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:46 UTC
When setting up MediaWiki 1.9.3 the following values were put in LocalSettings.php however they were identical to the defaults: * $wgEnableEmail * $wgEnableUserEmail * $wgEmailAuthentication * $wgDBserver * $wgDBtype * $wgDBprefix * $wgDBmysql5 * $wgMainCacheType * $wgEnableUploads * $wgUseTeX * $wgLanguageCode * $wgDefaultSkin * $wgRightsPage (not identical, however similar "" and NULL) * $wgRightsUrl (not identical, however similar "" and NULL) * $wgRightsText (not identical, however similar "" and NULL) * $wgRightsIcon (not identical, however similar "" and NULL) Having so many useless values makes LocalSettings.php difficult to read and harder to maintain. Although in some cases it may be useful to have comments these could be moved to a seperate text file to make reading even easier.
These aren't useless; most of them are settings which people will want to change out of the box. Having details about the database connection explicitly repeated in LocalSettings.php is useful for debugging. It's all about convenience. We aren't repeating the entire DefaultSettings.php file, we're repeating a small subset which are useful to have in LocalSettings.php when it comes to changing them.
