On Oct 6, 2014 11:07 PM, "Yaron Koren" yaron@wikiworks.com wrote:
I upgraded a wiki (via Git) to the latest version, which is 1.25alpha, and discovered that core MediaWiki no longer includes any skins. To get skins via Git, the error message at the top of the wiki helpfully recommended "Cloning one of the mediawiki/skins/* repositories via git [sic] into the skins/ directory of your MediaWiki installation." What was missing, however, was an actual Git command to call. I looked in mediawiki.org and couldn't find anything either. I tried some obvious commands, like:
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In addition to what Chad said:
I think you're looking for: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Separating_skins_from_core_MediaWiki * https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Skin_configuration&di...
If you want to change the message displayed when no skins are installed then patches welcome. :)
-Jeremy