Hello.
Wanting to play with Wikipedia on my own comp, i tried to install MediaWiki 1.1.0. Using MediaWiki 1.1.0 (stable), Windows 2000, Apache2, php 4.3.4 (latest), MySQL 4.0.18 (latest).
I followed the instructions from INSTALL document. But there's a mistake there: if you reply 'no' to database overwrite, the software doesn't correctly install / configure some stuff. I'm using fr: locale, so i set that as language. After install, characters were a real mess, accents wrongs & such.
So finally, I just trashed everything, did a fresh php install, then restored database from dump (i restored it prior to mediawiki install the previous attempt). This time it worked.
Or maybe that's just a mistake from me at some point, but i think i trashed everything, then installed, replying 'no' to overwrite, and still some issues...
Also, MediaWiki apparently requires php to be an apache module, using getallheaders function. Which isn't specified in the install document ^_- (ok, implicitely with the --with-apache= directive on the ./configure line for php... not intuitive for poor Windows users :))
As a side note, i get a warning in 'recent changes' saying Windows can't handle dates before 1970, January 1st, 00:00. Only seems to appear when no change to show, though, so not that a big deal :)
Nicolas