BoD wrote:
Hello! I'm new to mediawiki, and just installed
it. It works fine, but
now I'd like to have the same beautiful skins as in the wikipedia, i.e.
the Monobook skin.
MonoBook is in MediaWiki 1.3 only. If you're not running the 1.3 beta,
you won't have the MonoBook skin available.
Now I looked at this page
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skins and then
downloaded Smarty-2.6.2, and put it at the right place; then I did the
LocalSettings.php changes (albeit I only did the smarty part - do I need
to get PHPTal too?) so here's what I have now in my LocalSettings.php:
We don't use Smarty. (There were some old experimental skins that did,
but they were never completed and have been removed in 1.3.)
MonoBook uses PHPTal, but we include a copy in the MediaWiki tarball to
simplify distribution and to make some application-specific fixes and
workarounds. You don't need to download it separately, and it's the
default skin so you should be seeing it automatically.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)