Gentlemen, I have determined that if one uses importTextFile.php to
write MediaWiki:* items, then one must be prepared to do so again
after each run of update.php.
If one wishes those items to stick, one had better hunker down with the
browser and edit them by hand, each one.
Go ahead, run the below, note the effects, then run update.php. The
effects are then gone.
t=/tmp/n
echo -n - > $t
php importTextFile.php --title MediaWiki:Privacy $t
cat > $t <<EOF
- navigation
- mainpage|mainpage
- portal-url|portal
- currentevents-url|currentevents
- recentchanges-url|recentchanges
- randompage-url|randompage
- helppage|help
EOF
php importTextFile.php --title MediaWiki:Sidebar $t
Too bad there's no way to set them via LocalSettings.php.
No URL as this wiki is offline.
Version: 1.9.x
Severity: minor
OS: Linux
Platform: PC