Manual:$wgUseDatabaseMessages
| Language, regional and character encoding settings: $wgUseDatabaseMessages | |
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| Translation using MediaWiki: namespace. |
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| Introduced in version: | 1.1.0 |
| Removed in version: | Still in use |
| Allowed values: | (boolean) |
| Default value: | true (1.2+)false (1.1) |
| Other settings: Alphabetical | By function | |
Details
This variable determines whether the MediaWiki namespace is used to modify language files.
If true, then the wiki's interface is editable by those with editinterface privileges; if false, then the wiki's interface is determined directly from the internationalized message file specified in $wgLanguageCode.
Setting this variable to true will cause all interface messages to be retrieved from the database, which will increase load times by 25-60% (unless memcached is installed, in which case messages will be retrieved from the cache, which is a lot quicker). For performance reasons, it is recommended that you disable this setting if you do not have memcached.