This issue was raised last there. Someone wrote in
with a very nice email
about some things need to be put in
LocalSettings.php if for no other purpose than helping
newbies learn. Logo
path was one of these that
should not have been droped from LocalSettings.php
because it has to be
explained over and over and over
again, as this message thread shows.
Hi there,
I am the one who started this section
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgStylePath#This_is_fucked_up
I installed MediaWiki recently, and I am very confused by these purported
"default" values. While I would welcome a (re)introduction of $wgLogo in
LocalSettings.php, I suspect that this would not solve the root cause of the
confusion.
I think the key problem is that sometimes what is documented as "default value"
of some variables does not correspond to the value of those variables in
LocalSettings.php, which is what I (and apparently many other people) expected.
So, for example, it is confusing to document that the default value of
$wgStylePath is "{$wgScriptPath}/skins", because this is not (yet?) the case in
LocalSettings.php, unless one explicitly assigns that value to the variable.
I really hope that either this gets "fixed" or the documentation is clarified.
Thank you.