Manual talk:ISBN

=2012=

Info Updated
As complained below, the previous page contents did not match a local Mediawiki installation at all. Instead, it simply was some copy of text, referring to http://meta.wikimedia.org. I've now updated the page contents to at least match the current software status.

=2007=

Updates necessary?
Is it possible, that this page is no longer up to date? At least with a German localization of MediaWiki 1.9.3, I can't reproduce the described steps anymore. If memory serves right, it worked lastl on MediaWiki 1.5.x or 1.6.x (then I upgraded the installation).

The Manual pages reads: "This is a link to a special booksource page, the page Meta:Book sources with each instance of MAGICNUMBER on this page replaced with the ISBN [...]" - This sounds as if the text was simply copied from Meta. Shouldn't this read something like ?

Also, on different sections of the Manual page, the ISBN page is referenced as "SOME_NAMESPACE:Booksources", on others as "SOME_NAMESPACE:Book_Sources" or even "SOME_NAMESPACE:Book_sources" - what is supposed the be right?

The Manual page reads further: "If the page configured there does not exist, ISBN links are still generated and render a default page of links to book sources taken from the languageXXX.php file". In the German localization of MediaWiki 1.9.3, this doesn't work anymore for me. In /var/www/{path-to-wiki-root}/languages/LanguageDe.php, I edited the section

These changes are being ignored completely, every search falls back to some "defaults" defined anywhere else - Could anyone knowing please update the Manual how this works in MediaWiki 1.9.3? Thanks --asb 18:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * In the MediaWiki 1.10.1 installation I'm administrating I found the array bookstoreList in the file MessagesDE.php, which seems to be the default list. However I decided to use the same method as in the German Wikipedia, which is described in m:Help:ISBN links. I checked the content of MediaWiki:booksources and created a page with the same name in the project namespace. Using     :  (here in :     :, Wikipedia:ISBN-Suche in the German Wikipedia) you can find the name for the respective page in your Wiki. To make this work you may use the URL from the bookstoreList replacing $1 with MAGICNUMBER, e.g. http://www.buch.de/de.buch.shop/shop/1/home/schnellsuche/buch/?fqbi=MAGICNUMBER or more sophisticated buch.de for buch.de. The result you can check at the usual special page Special:BookSources. --ThT 13:29, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

=2008=

Where ?
Hello !

I wish to change the text of this page on my personnal website. How can I do? Thanks !--Valérie75 12:44, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I find it !
 * The web links in MessagesFr.php.
 * The text in MediaWiki:Booksources-text.--Valérie75 15:42, 17 September 2008 (UTC)