upgrade successful or not? were schema changes made? - MediaWiki-l

Gary Kirk

1 Feb 1 Feb

8:40 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] upgrade successful or not? were schema changes made?

Navigate to Special:Version on the wiki and see what it says. It sounds like you have not yet upgraded though. On 2/1/08, Eric Frost <eric.frost(a)mp2kmag.com> wrote:

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I tried to upgrade a couple Wiki's from 1.10 to 1.11.1 but it didn't go exactly how it says... I'm not sure the database changes were made. How can I be sure? I was doing these steps from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading ============================== Alternative 2: Re-run the installer An alternative to running the update script from the shell is to re-run the web installer. To do this: 1. Rename LocalSettings.php to LocalSettings.old.php 2. Make the config directory writable by the web server 3. Make sure the database user has full rights to the database 4. Browse to the wiki and start the installer Fill in the form fields with the same values as was done during the previous version's installation. When the installation process starts, the script will detect existing MediaWiki tables, and upgrade their schema. When this is complete, a new LocalSettings.php will be generated. 1. Delete the new configuration file 2. Rename LocalSettings.old.php back to LocalSettings.php 3. Restore permissions on the config directory ============================== The issue is that I never saw it run through the installer.. there were no form fields. It just created the new LocalSettings.php file and it seemed to know all the right settings somehow without me telling it. Anyway, it seems to be working fine and OK, I just want to verify the "schema" was actually upgraded. Any suggestions or clue I should look for in phpMyAdmin to made sure the database tables were upgraded? Thanks! Eric _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Thomas Dalton

9:31 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] skins

On 01/02/2008, ruud habets <rhabets(a)kgv.nl> wrote:

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Hi, I cannot seem to find any decent documentation on how to edit skins. I have been trying (on http://www.kgv.nl/) for several days to aligne the < h2> "edit" tag to the right while the < h2> text itsself stays left aligned in the MySkin skin. The cologne skin has it by default. I just do not see where the difference is being made. Can anyone point me in the right direction.

Edit the CSS for the skin in question (Mediawiki:skinname.css) and alter what it does for the class "editsection". "#editsection.float:right" or something like that.

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The Gadget Doctor

7:23 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] skins

First of all, editing CSS files can be very, very, frustrating. Doing this within Mediawiki even more so. Some tips (and I'd be happy to hear those of others). 1. If you edit any file in Mediawiki force your browser to do a full refresh (Shift F5 IE I think, Cmd-R on Mac Firefox). Or turn off local caching while you're testing. 2. If you're on a Mac (I don't know the equivalent on a PC but I'm sure there's something) get a copy of CSSEdit from Macrabbit and read the instructions. Your CSS world will change. 3. Use Firefox with the Firebug plug in (free). This is about 60% as good as CSSEdit for just examining what's going on and I think this will work on PC. 4. I actually gave up (for testing purposes) editing CSS via mediawiki. Instead I did what you have done and edited a copy of the skin files until I had what I wanted and then uploaded the changes and replaced the skin files back to normal. Hope some of that helps. On Feb 2, 2008 7:42 AM, ruud habets <rhabets(a)kgv.nl> wrote:

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Thomas Dalton schreef:

On 01/02/2008, ruud habets <rhabets(a)kgv.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot seem to find any decent documentation on how to edit skins. I > have been trying (on http://www.kgv.nl/) for several days to aligne

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< h2> "edit" tag to the right while the < h2> text itsself stays left aligned in the MySkin skin. The cologne skin has it by default. I just do not see where the difference is being made. Can anyone point me in the right direction.

Edit the CSS for the skin in question (Mediawiki:skinname.css) and alter what it does for the class "editsection". "#editsection.float:right" or something like that.

I noticed the editsection there, earlier but changes were not visible in IE or FF. Since your answer sounded like "there is no other answer, this is it" I copied the class further up to the top of main.css: in the content styles section of the file. And there it worked. Thank you Ruud

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John Meyer

10:09 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] skins

Okay, I'm going to be the idiot here and ask something that's probably obvious, but I'll only be an idiot for a moment. I go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gert7/s1/monobook.css and it says "after saving, you need to refresh". Well, where do I save this file to relative to my own wiki? The Gadget Doctor wrote:

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First of all, editing CSS files can be very, very, frustrating. Doing this within Mediawiki even more so. Some tips (and I'd be happy to hear those of others). 1. If you edit any file in Mediawiki force your browser to do a full refresh (Shift F5 IE I think, Cmd-R on Mac Firefox). Or turn off local caching while you're testing. 2. If you're on a Mac (I don't know the equivalent on a PC but I'm sure there's something) get a copy of CSSEdit from Macrabbit and read the instructions. Your CSS world will change. 3. Use Firefox with the Firebug plug in (free). This is about 60% as good as CSSEdit for just examining what's going on and I think this will work on PC. 4. I actually gave up (for testing purposes) editing CSS via mediawiki. Instead I did what you have done and edited a copy of the skin files until I had what I wanted and then uploaded the changes and replaced the skin files back to normal. Hope some of that helps. On Feb 2, 2008 7:42 AM, ruud habets <rhabets(a)kgv.nl> wrote:

Thomas Dalton schreef:

On 01/02/2008, ruud habets <rhabets(a)kgv.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot seem to find any decent documentation on how to edit skins. I > have been trying (on http://www.kgv.nl/) for several days to aligne >

the

< h2> "edit" tag to the right while the < h2> text itsself stays left aligned in the MySkin skin. The cologne skin has it by default. I just do not see where the difference is being made. Can anyone point me in the right direction.

Edit the CSS for the skin in question (Mediawiki:skinname.css) and alter what it does for the class "editsection". "#editsection.float:right" or something like that.

I noticed the editsection there, earlier but changes were not visible in IE or FF. Since your answer sounded like "there is no other answer, this is it" I copied the class further up to the top of main.css: in the content styles section of the file. And there it worked. Thank you Ruud

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