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In MediaWiki 1.18 and above, you can find a message key by browsing a wiki in the special pseudo-language code <code>'''qqx'''</code>, which can be done by appending <code>?uselang=qqx</code> to the URL, or <code>&uselang=qqx</code> if the URL already contains a <code>?</code> character ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|uselang=qqx}} example]). All the messages will then be replaced by their message keys, so you can identify which message is responsible. Messages that are always in the content language will not be shown using qqx.
Aside from changing the Navigation bar, this is how we customized the ISBN message that is used in the 'Book Sources' special page e.g. [[Special:BookSources/1594200068]]. All these messages are in the '''MediaWiki''' namespace. So, if the message key is 'Requestaccount-acc-text', then you can change the content of the message by editing 'MediaWiki:Requestaccount-acc-text'.
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