The MediaWiki

I wanted to use the Template:Languages and Template:Languages/Lang on own MediaWiki. But even if the latest version of MediaWiki was installed, the result wasn’t display correctly. I could see vast amounts of texts in the area. If Template:Languages/Lang is available, some linked texts which don’t have any corresponding language page aren’t displayed. Before then, the result I could see the expression was obviously wrong.

I had searched for a solution for two days and found a way to clear it yesterday. The Template:Languages and Template:Languages/Lang needed the ParserFunctions extension to become available. And I needed to add following one line code to LocalSettings.php.

require_once("$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php");

This was working. I think that they are special features to easily select a page from a lot of localization ones. But nevertheless why aren’t these features available on default? Even so, I only write Japanese and English. :-p

By the way, external link’s arrow icon also didn’t displayed in which case selecting the CologneBlue as skin. About this, I wrote CSS code in MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css. The code is as follows.

a.external,text {
background: url( image’s full path ) center right no-repeat;
padding-right: 13px;
}

I didn’t understand anything else image’s full path. Anyway, the Mediawiki is very difficult. I can’t casually use it like the Hiki and YukiWiki.