User talk:Schockocraft

Problems Renaming Project Namespace
I have changed The Name of the Project Namespace of my wiki in Special:ManageWiki/namespaces in the "What should the main namespace name for the project namespace be? ($wgMetaNamespace)" field, but all links like the ones in the Page Footer or the "see Copyright for details" in the Editor still point to the old Namespace Name. Edit: The Old Namespace Name is also used for example in the Advanced Search Namespaces List, etc. I also tried adding the old Namespace name as an Alias to the Project Namespace (The big input field on Special:ManageWiki/namespaces), but that didn't change anything. Can I change this in a different way, or do I have to make a Phabricator Task about that? And is this behavior intended, or is this actually a bug? Schockocraft (talk) 15:46, 31 May 2021 (UTC) (Edit 15:57, 31 May 2021 (UTC))
 * I'm not sure what your old and what your new project namespace name was to be, but do note that  will remain, essentially, as the core namespace name regardless of what you set as your custom namespace name. If if it something else, it could be a server-side Varnish cache or even a MediaWiki cache issue, so I'd give it 24-48 hours before filing a Phabricator task. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 16:06, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I know that "Project" is a non-changeable Alias, but I changed the name from "Argonium Modpack Wiki" to "Argonium". It's also already 4 or 5 days since I changed it, that's why I'm asking. Schockocraft (talk) 16:12, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, nevermind, I realized your issue. This is caused by the MirahezeMagic global interface messages and interface message overrides. To resolve this, you'll need to create MediaWiki:Aboutpage, to override the global interface message that reflects . You will also need to override MediaWiki:Disclaimerpage as that reflects  . It shouldn't be necessary to override MediaWiki:Aboutsite that reflects   as your sitename should be up to date. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 16:12, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The Page 'MediaWiki:Aboutpage' just contains  so that should automatically lead to whatever my project namespace is, shouldn't it? Also wouldn't that solution just create Pseudo-namespaces? Schockocraft (talk) 16:28, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * To answer your latter question first, pseudo-namespaces are  and , so no. In theory,   should link to the correct page in project namespace, but I also haven't heard of this issue on any other wiki, so I really doubt it's a Miraheze-specific bug. It's possible it's a cache bug that persists several days later, and maybe this could be investigated, but SRE is short-staffed right now, so this is a reasonable workaround that avoids a Phabricator task. In the medium-term, we can perhaps investigate this? Dmehus (talk) 16:37, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * What I mean with "pseudo-namespaces" is, that the page would be called "Argonium:About" but reside in the main namespace.
 * That would in turn mean that as soon as the issue is fixed, the created pages will become inaccessible, as anything starting with "Argonium:" will then be looked for in the actual Namespace. I will sure wait for another few days, as it's not at all urgent, but I don't want this to persist forever Schockocraft (talk) 16:42, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah, okay. Well, no, all you'd need to do is change the wikitext of those interface messages to be  and the about page link should be updated. Dmehus (talk) 16:52, 31 May 2021 (UTC)