Marian Aldenhövel wrote:
I now would like to customize the appearance to better
fit this
application. Most notably I wanted to remove the line "..the free
encyclopedia" and the note about content automatically being
licensed unter the FDL as it is not true in my case.
Question A: Is this legal under the license governing the use of
MediaWiki?
Yes! MediaWiki doesn't itself care what your content license is.
Obviously if you're hosting a mirror or derivative of Wikipedia content
you'd want to leave it at GFDL, but otherwise (as you're not) feel free
to change it.
1.3 has less of this stuff hardcoded in the defaults.
Question B: How do I do it?
From MediaWiki 1.2 localization text is stored in the database to make
it easier to customize. **This takes precendence over the text in
LanguageXx.php, which is used to initialize the database at install time.**
See:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
You can also disable database messages by setting in LocalSettings.php:
$wgUseDatabaseMessages = false;
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)