🧞 Configurations

Available configurations

⚙️	Name	Description	Values	Default
⚙️	$wgGlobalMessagesCentralWiki	Name of the central wiki database where the global messages will be obtained.	db name	null
⚙️	$wgGlobalMessagesReadFromDb	Read and update messages from the specified central wiki database	true or false	false

Warning

Currently it is not known why the database must be created manually, whether it is an error or intentional.

Permissions

GlobalMessages add the permission editglobalinterface you can add it to any of your groups respectively, for example:

$wgGroupPermissions['staff']['editglobalinterface'] = true

🕹️ Usage

Once you have installed the extension you must specify wgGlobalMessagesCentralWiki and $wgGlobalMessagesReadFromDb. Once this is done you must manually create the database, you can use clients like dbeaver for this. Otherwise if you don't do this you will see an error that the database cannot be found.

Once this is done, the extension is functional, now you can edit system messages globally for your wikifarm, from the namespace "Global message" and to add different languages, for example if you are adding Global message:Specialpages-summary to add a spanish translation it would be Global message:Specialpages-summary/es adding: / and then the language.