Skins are always included in the official tarball release. However if
you are downloading from git, you have to download skins separately.
The skins in Wikimedia's git repo all have REL1_XX branches for each
version, so all the old versions are available.
Can't seem to find this. Can you help with a direct link, so that I can
--
Brian
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Morten Blaabjerg
<mortenblaabjerg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Lewis Cawte
<lewiscawte(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
Never tried it but the functionality was moved
into an extension,
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters
I found this, but is seems unsupported, and I would probably be just as
worse off with this as I would be with using 1.24 with a compatible skin.
> The MediaWiki site probably will not distribute the old versions of
skins
although
they do exist in the old branches of their respective Git
repositories.
Would be great if I could just get a link to download a package of some
of
the compatible skins. I'm going to hack them
to pieces anyway, just need
to
get the wiki up and running with a skin, which is
not too difficult to
work
with. Foreground, Chamaeleon, Tweeki or even some
of the old simple skins
would probably do for starters.
Is there any particular reason why you are using
such an old unsupported
version of MediaWiki?
Yes. The new version doesn't support "pageviews" and the
"special:popularpages" has been removed. Why they would not simply leave
it
in to people to enable or disable it according to
their tastes, I don't
get. I always thought it was quite useful for a small wiki to get an
indication of what pages were actually read by people.
> Sorry I can't be of more help at the moment - currently sat on a
campsite.
Sure! Thanks for your time!
I am an old user/admin of MediaWiki from way back in the early days.
A lot has changed since then for MW - a lot to the better. But I don't
like
the serious roadblocks that are in place for
someone like me to not get
to
use an earlier version of the software, if I so
please. Should be fairly
simple to keep old skins around to get to, if one had the taste for it.
-- Lewis Cawte
On Sun, 27 May 2018, 12:13 Morten Blaabjerg, <mortenblaabjerg(a)gmail.com
> wrote:
>
> > I am building a proof of concept site, which will at a later stage,
if
it
> > works the way I intend, be rebuilt from
scratch and up.
> >
> > I wanted to use MediaWiki for this project, because of the speed by
which
> > it is possible to create a lot of
articles in a short amount of time,
and
> > it has some cool statistics and special
pages too to manage things,
and I
> > simply love the template functionality
too.
> >
> > However, upon installing, I was surprised to learn, that the
"pageviews"
> > and "special:popularpages" was
gone from the mediawiki from 1.25
onward,
> > and I had great trouble installing 1.24
which was the last version
with
> > this functionality, because no skins
were included with the old
version,
> > and I failed in finding compatible skins
for this version, despite
> spending
> > most of an evening online searching. On the official repository I can
> find
> > only skins compatible back to 1.27.
> >
> > I would like to use a modern skin which is compatible with 1.24, or
the
> > other way around, re-introduce the
"pageviews" and "popularpages"
> > functionality into the current mw version, via an extension, if
possible.
> >
> > I don't want to go all the way to install google analytics. I just
need
> the
> > simple indication of how many times a page was asked for by a browser,
> and
> > the accumulative results shown in the "special:popularpages" special
> page.
> >
> > What is the best way to achieve that? I can understand the
functionality
> > removal was done with some dissent, so
maybe someone already made an
> > extension for this functionality, or would it be comparatively easy to
> > build one by oneself (since the code already exists, I assume).
> >
> > This is for a small mediawiki project, with just 1 editor, and no
signups
> > for anyone else, so I intend to use raw
html in wiki pages as well.
So I
>
would have no problem using a workaround - say putting some code in a
> template which is then in turn loaded in every page. But of course, it
> would be more easy to have it as part of the footer as it used to be.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help in guiding me in the right direction.
>
> Venlige hilsener,
>
> Morten Blaabjerg
> mortenblaabjerg(a)gmail.com
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