Dear Rob,
Thank you both for your help and your clarification! They are much appreciated. I have removed the Common.js file I had created and also replaced the Common.cs file with a backed up version of the original. I then went into the Wiki itself to the MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js (itself blank) and cut and pasted the code from the same entitled Wikipedia pages. Unfortunately there don't seem to be any changes. Do I need to edit anything in the LocalSettings.php? (I haven't thus far).
I would very much appreciate any advice you or anyone else could possibly give.
Thanks again,
Chris Merwin
"A philosopheme is a demonstrative inference: an epichireme is a dialectical inference: a sophism is a contentious inference: an aporeme is an inference that reasons dialectically to a contradiction." -Aristotle, Topics, Book VIII, 11.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Church [mailto:robchur@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 05:31 AM To: christopher.merwin@gmail.com; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to add a Character Box
On 11/12/06, Christopher Merwin christopher.merwin@gmail.com wrote:
1. MediaWiki:Common.js is a page. You edit the same page on your wiki. You don't touch the filesystem. 2. The Common.js page doesn't have special significance below a particular version of MediaWiki, and I can't actually remember which it is...it's possibly the 1.7 branch. 3. If you replaced wikibits.js with an arbitrary file from somewhere else (where?) then it's possible you destroyed the helper functions used to add the edit buttons in the first place.
Rob Church