User:MediaWiki default/Old user page

This is the username used by the maintenance script rebuildmessages.php. The script is part of MediaWiki; it updates MediaWiki interface messages to be equal to the MediaWiki default. It is not a bot and is unaffected by blocks.

The script has two modes of operation:

rebuildMessages.php --update

Updates any messages which were last edited by "MediaWiki default" to their current version. Creates any messages which did not exist.

rebuildMessages.php --rebuild

Updates all messages to their current default value, regardless of whether they have been manually edited. This is sometimes used on other wikis when a new messages file has just been created, with a comprehensive set of default messages. It has never been used on the English Wikipedia.

Edits made by this script had a user ID of zero, so they were treated as anonymous edits in the page history, with a link to the user contributions instead of the user page.

The same username is also used by the MediaWiki installer. Installing MediaWiki has the same effect as rebuildMessages.php --update.

If there is a problem with the text of the default messages, please file a bug report at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/. Requests to start or stop the script should be made to the #wikimedia-tech channel on irc.freenode.net.

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Awards

File:Vitruvian Barnstar.png		The da Vinci Barnstar
		Thanks for your work in setting defaults for pages in the MediaWiki namespace. You are truly the unsung hero of Wikimedian software. I'll see if I can nominate you for adminship after you start editing more frequently. GracenotesT § 07:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)