Andreas Kotes wrote:
Main problem: I set the language to german, and the messages are in german - but all umlauts (read: special characters) are encoded ISO-8859-1; while mediawiki (correctly, in my opinion) thinks and tells (via meta http-equiv) we're using UTF-8 - overriding Apache/PHP saying we're doing ISO-8859-1 .. a little bit shizophrenic after all.
If you are upgrading an old installation you should probably specify "Deutsch (Latin-1)" for the language/charset rather than "Deutsch (Unicode)".
To do this manually after setup, set $wgUseLatin1 = true; and rebuild the messages.
- how could I backup _only_ the pages from the database and scrap everything else, so I could start with a freshly generated database?
Use mysqldump to backup anything you want from the database.
- how can I customize other things? i.e. the menues, the picture, stuff like that ...
Find and edit the appropriate files. Sorry, annoying answer. :)
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