On Apr 14, 2004, at 03:20, Alex Barth wrote:
I installed mediawiki with the web-interface. Now I
want to change the
wiki's language subsequently from german to english. Therefore, I
changed
the line
$wgLanguageCode = "de";
in LocalSettings.php to
$wgLanguageCode = "en";
At install time, the interface messages are imported to the database so
you can customize them. (See
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace ) If you then change
the language, you can do one of two things:
1) Set "$wgUseDatabaseMessages = false;" to disable the support for the
MediaWiki: namespace. This means you'll have to customize things by
hand in Language*.php, will lose your changes at the next upgrade if
you don't carefully merge, and can't use template messages for other
purposes.
2) Run maintenance/rebuildMessages.php to re-import the messages.
You'll have to temporarily take out the maintenance script warning in
your LocalSettings.php to run it, probably. It needs to be run from the
command line. (This'll be cleaner in 1.3.x...)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)