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After upgrade '[edit]' links replaced by non-linked text '<editsection-brackets>'
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Author: garth.webb

Description:
LocalSettings.php file

I just upgraded from 1.8.0 to 1.11.0 and the '[edit]' links on every page were replaced by '<editsection-brackets>'. From what I've read this seems to be some kind of localization issue, but I have not changed anything.

To upgrade, I unpacked the new version, copied over my LocalSettings.php and AdminSettings.php files to the new version's directory and ran the update.php in maintenance. After that everything seems to work fine, and I can edit pages via the main edit tab, but these [edit] links no longer appear properly.

I also tried creating a fresh LocalSetting.php file by running the config/index.php script from the browser. After this I could still see all my old data, but I still didn't have proper [edit] links.

I've attached my LocalSettings.php file.

Version: 1.11.x
Severity: normal
URL: Section [edit] links replaced by <editsection-brackets>

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LocalSettings.php.filtered4 KBDownload

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bz11926

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:56 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Installer.
• bzimport set Reference to bz11926.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Nov 10 2007, 6:24 PM
Catrope added a comment.Nov 11 2007, 8:19 PM

Very likely, MediaWiki:editsection-brackets exists and is blank. Delete it or set its content to '[edit]' (or whatever else you want to show up there).

• bzimport added a comment.Nov 11 2007, 8:41 PM

garth.webb wrote:

The problem wasn't just that it didn't say '[edit]', but it (In reply to comment #1)

Very likely, MediaWiki:editsection-brackets exists and is blank. Delete it or
set its content to '[edit]' (or whatever else you want to show up there).

The problem wasn't just that it didn't say '[edit]', but that the text that was there wasn't a link to anything. It was just plain text.

In any case, this problems seems to have resolved itself, though I don't know how. I restarted memcached several times and still had this problem before, so it wasn't a cached value there. I didn't change anything else either. I just came back about 6 hours later and it was OK.

I'll leave the bug status as is in case anybody thinks this is worth looking into. My immediate problem is resolved however.

• bzimport added a comment.Dec 4 2007, 7:59 PM

jvandegrift wrote:

had a similar problem during v1.10 to v1.11 upgrade. Tried the /maintenance/language/rebuildLanguage.php script. That did it for me.

• demon added a comment.May 7 2010, 3:11 PM

I'm going to mark this as WORKSFORME. Don't see any underlying reason why this has happened, and we haven't heard any similar complaints in the 2.5 years since this was looked at last. Feel free to reopen if anyone can replicate on any recent copy of Mediawiki.

VictorPorton subscribed.Feb 27 2019, 5:22 AM

I have the same bug at https://withoutvowels.org/wiki/Blog:Main

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