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Bakkies Gatvol

1 Dec 2017 1 Dec '17

10:56 p.m.

thanks to everyone who helped me upgrade from 1.18.3 to the latest wiki on redhat Now I want to make the old wiki 1.18.13 using the monobook skin some screaming ugly color - to help show users which wiki is the old (stay away from) vs the new (use this one) wiki I copied the monobook skin and tried to change the headbg.jpg to some colorful image - but it did no have the desired effect. I'd be happy just changing the bgcolor to purple or something. I am sure somebody here can give me a few pointers. This is just for a week as we allow people to find / bookmark and be comfortable with the new wiki. Want to do this on Monday ! Thanks much Installed software Product Version MediaWiki<http://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.18.3 PHP<http://www.php.net/> 5.3.10 (apache2handler) MySQL<http://www.mysql.com/> 5.1.62-log

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Greg Rundlett (freephile)

1 Dec 1 Dec

11:55 p.m.

New subject: eye-catching (ugly!) skin

Just edit MediaWiki:Common.css on the old wiki to include something like * { background-color:yellow!important; } I'm sure that will do the trick! Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com https://freephile.org On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Bakkies Gatvol <bakgat8(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

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thanks to everyone who helped me upgrade from 1.18.3 to the latest wiki on redhat Now I want to make the old wiki 1.18.13 using the monobook skin some screaming ugly color - to help show users which wiki is the old (stay away from) vs the new (use this one) wiki I copied the monobook skin and tried to change the headbg.jpg to some colorful image - but it did no have the desired effect. I'd be happy just changing the bgcolor to purple or something. I am sure somebody here can give me a few pointers. This is just for a week as we allow people to find / bookmark and be comfortable with the new wiki. Want to do this on Monday ! Thanks much Installed software Product Version MediaWiki<http://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.18.3 PHP< http://www.php.net/> 5.3.10 (apache2handler) MySQL<http://www.mysql.com/> 5.1.62-log _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Greg Rundlett (freephile)

2 Dec 2 Dec

midnight

New subject: eye-catching (ugly!) skin

Unless you have sitewide CSS controlled by the Gadgets extension like MW.org, in which case the interface is at a URL like https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-site.css Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com https://freephile.org On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < greg(a)freephile.com> wrote:

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thanks to everyone who helped me upgrade from 1.18.3 to the latest wiki on redhat Now I want to make the old wiki 1.18.13 using the monobook skin some screaming ugly color - to help show users which wiki is the old (stay away from) vs the new (use this one) wiki I copied the monobook skin and tried to change the headbg.jpg to some colorful image - but it did no have the desired effect. I'd be happy just changing the bgcolor to purple or something. I am sure somebody here can give me a few pointers. This is just for a week as we allow people to find / bookmark and be comfortable with the new wiki. Want to do this on Monday ! Thanks much Installed software Product Version MediaWiki<http://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.18.3 PHP< http://www.php.net/> 5.3.10 (apache2handler) MySQL<http://www.mysql.com/> 5.1.62-log _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Bakkies Gatvol

4 Dec 4 Dec

3:34 p.m.

New subject: eye-catching (ugly!) skin

there is no common file - I tried editing the main - but it had no effect as far as I can tell /usr/local/www/mediawiki/skins/monobook]# ls -l total 272 -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 85 May 7 2012 FF2Fixes.css -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 1108 May 7 2012 IE50Fixes.css -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 1358 May 7 2012 IE55Fixes.css -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 1794 May 7 2012 IE60Fixes.css -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 1761 May 7 2012 IE70Fixes.css -rwxrwxr-- 1 creswikiadmin www 782 Jun 24 2010 IEMacFixes.css -rwxrwxr-- 1 creswikiadmin www 108 Jun 24 2010 KHTMLFixes.css -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 337 May 7 2012 Opera6Fixes.css -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 394 May 7 2012 Opera7Fixes.css -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 205 May 7 2012 Opera9Fixes.css -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 239 May 7 2012 audio.png -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 50 May 7 2012 bullet.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 549 May 7 2012 discussionitem_icon.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 213 May 7 2012 document.png -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 143 May 7 2012 external-ltr.png -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 157 May 7 2012 external-rtl.png -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 323 May 7 2012 file_icon.gif -rwxrwxr-- 1 creswikiadmin www 23491 Jun 27 2007 handheld.css -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 7881 May 7 2012 headbg.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 342 May 7 2012 link_icon.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 918 May 7 2012 lock_icon.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 170 May 7 2012 magnify-clip.png -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 321 May 7 2012 mail_icon.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 22259 May 7 2012 main.css -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 294 May 7 2012 news_icon.png -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 47 May 7 2012 required.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 325 May 7 2012 user.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 169 May 7 2012 video.png -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 8013 May 7 2012 wiki-indexed.png -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 22736 May 7 2012 wiki.png ________________________________ From: MediaWiki-l <mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Greg Rundlett (freephile) <greg(a)freephile.com> Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 5:00 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] eye-catching (ugly!) skin Unless you have sitewide CSS controlled by the Gadgets extension like MW.org, in which case the interface is at a URL like https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-site.css Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com eQuality Technology = Let's work together<https://equality-tech.com/> equality-tech.com Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is founding director of the Web Foundation. Sir Tim says "It has taken all of us to build the web we have, and ... https://freephile.org On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < greg(a)freephile.com> wrote:

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Just edit MediaWiki:Common.css on the old wiki to include something like * { background-color:yellow!important; } I'm sure that will do the trick! Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com

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https://freephile.org On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Bakkies Gatvol <bakgat8(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > thanks to everyone who helped me upgrade from 1.18.3 to the latest wiki > on redhat > > Now I want to make the old wiki 1.18.13 using the monobook skin some > screaming ugly color - to help show users which wiki is the old (stay away > from) vs the new (use this one) wiki > > > I copied the monobook skin and tried to change the headbg.jpg to some > colorful image - but it did no have the desired effect. I'd be happy just > changing the bgcolor to purple or something. > > > I am sure somebody here can give me a few pointers. This is just for a > week as we allow people to find / bookmark and be comfortable with the new > wiki. > > > Want to do this on Monday ! > > > Thanks much > > > Installed software > Product Version MediaWiki<http://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.18.3 PHP< > http://www.php.net/> 5.3.10 (apache2handler) MySQL<http://www.mysql.com/>

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G Rundlett

3:41 p.m.

New subject: eye-catching (ugly!) skin

MediaWiki:Common.css is a file that you edit in the browser. It's part of the special "MediaWiki" namespace that affects the user interface. E.g. https://example.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css On Dec 4, 2017 8:35 AM, "Bakkies Gatvol" <bakgat8(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

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Just edit MediaWiki:Common.css on the old wiki to include something like * { background-color:yellow!important; } I'm sure that will do the trick! Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com

away

> from) vs the new (use this one) wiki > > > I copied the monobook skin and tried to change the headbg.jpg to some > colorful image - but it did no have the desired effect. I'd be happy

just

> changing the bgcolor to purple or something. > > > I am sure somebody here can give me a few pointers. This is just for a > week as we allow people to find / bookmark and be comfortable with the

new

> wiki. > > > Want to do this on Monday ! > > > Thanks much > > > Installed software > Product Version MediaWiki<http://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.18.3 PHP< > http://www.php.net/> 5.3.10 (apache2handler) MySQL<

http://www.mysql.com/> [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/ PHP-logo.svg/220px-PHP-logo.svg.png]<http://www.php.net/> PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor<http://www.php.net/> www.php.net Server-side HTML embedded scripting language. It provides web developers with a full suite of tools for building dynamic websites: native APIs to Apache and other web ...

> 5.1.62-log > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Bakkies Gatvol

3:47 p.m.

New subject: eye-catching (ugly!) skin

This is what I get for that URL MediaWiki:Common.css View or restore one deleted edit<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:Undelete/MediaWiki:… This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference. * 05:58, June 28, 2007 Agostoni<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/index.php?title=User:Agoston… (Talk<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Agosto… | contribs<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/A… | block<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:Block/Agostoni>) deleted "MediaWiki:Common.css<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css>" ‎ (No longer required) (view/restore<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/index.php?title=Special:…) /* CSS placed here will be applied to all skins */ ________________________________ From: MediaWiki-l <mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of G Rundlett <greg.rundlett(a)gmail.com> Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 8:41 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] eye-catching (ugly!) skin MediaWiki:Common.css is a file that you edit in the browser. It's part of the special "MediaWiki" namespace that affects the user interface. E.g. https://example.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css On Dec 4, 2017 8:35 AM, "Bakkies Gatvol" <bakgat8(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

...

Just edit MediaWiki:Common.css on the old wiki to include something like * { background-color:yellow!important; } I'm sure that will do the trick! Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com

away

> from) vs the new (use this one) wiki > > > I copied the monobook skin and tried to change the headbg.jpg to some > colorful image - but it did no have the desired effect. I'd be happy

just

> changing the bgcolor to purple or something. > > > I am sure somebody here can give me a few pointers. This is just for a > week as we allow people to find / bookmark and be comfortable with the

new

http://www.mysql.com/> [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/ PHP-logo.svg/220px-PHP-logo.svg.png]<http://www.php.net/> PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor<http://www.php.net/> www.php.net<http://www.php.net> Server-side HTML embedded scripting language. It provides web developers with a full suite of tools for building dynamic websites: native APIs to Apache and other web ...

> 5.1.62-log > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Greg Rundlett (freephile)

4:24 p.m.

New subject: eye-catching (ugly!) skin

OK, so you can undelete the page, and edit it make the content the way you want. I gave the example of using the wildcard selector: * with a CSS rule of background-color:yellow; You can edit / apply CSS however you like with that file. Just make sure the contents are valid CSS. # --------8<-------------8<--------------8<---------- BEGIN CSS ----------------- # /* No open or close tags needed */ # CSS comments allowed * { background-color: yellow; } # --------8<-------------8<--------------8<---------- END CSS ----------------- # Note: you could also complement this approach with MediaWiki:Sitenotice [1] [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sitenotice Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com https://freephile.org On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Bakkies Gatvol <bakgat8(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

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This is what I get for that URL MediaWiki:Common.css View or restore one deleted edit<http://creswiki.se.fss. aramark.com/wiki/Special:Undelete/MediaWiki:Common.css>? This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference. * 05:58, June 28, 2007 Agostoni<http://creswiki.se. fss.aramark.com/index.php?title=User:Agostoni&action=edit&redlink=1… (Talk<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/index.php?title= User_talk:Agostoni&action=edit&redlink=1> | contribs<http://creswiki.se. fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Agostoni> | block< http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:Block/Agostoni>) deleted "MediaWiki:Common.css<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/ wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css>" ‎ (No longer required) (view/restore< http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/index.php? title=Special:Undelete&target=MediaWiki%3ACommon.css>) /* CSS placed here will be applied to all skins */ ________________________________ From: MediaWiki-l <mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of G Rundlett <greg.rundlett(a)gmail.com> Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 8:41 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] eye-catching (ugly!) skin MediaWiki:Common.css is a file that you edit in the browser. It's part of the special "MediaWiki" namespace that affects the user interface. E.g. https://example.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css On Dec 4, 2017 8:35 AM, "Bakkies Gatvol" <bakgat8(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

* { background-color:yellow!important; } I'm sure that will do the trick! Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com

eQuality Technology = Let's work together<https://equality-tech.com/> equality-tech.com Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is founding director of the Web Foundation. Sir Tim says "It has taken all of us to build the web we have, and ... > https://freephile.org > > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Bakkies Gatvol <bakgat8(a)hotmail.com> > wrote: > >> thanks to everyone who helped me upgrade from 1.18.3 to the latest

wiki

> on redhat > > Now I want to make the old wiki 1.18.13 using the monobook skin some > screaming ugly color - to help show users which wiki is the old (stay

away

> from) vs the new (use this one) wiki > > > I copied the monobook skin and tried to change the headbg.jpg to some > colorful image - but it did no have the desired effect. I'd be happy

just

> changing the bgcolor to purple or something. > > > I am sure somebody here can give me a few pointers. This is just for a > week as we allow people to find / bookmark and be comfortable with the

new

http://www.mysql.com/> [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/ PHP-logo.svg/220px-PHP-logo.svg.png]<http://www.php.net/> PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor<http://www.php.net/> www.php.net<http://www.php.net> Server-side HTML embedded scripting language. It provides web developers with a full suite of tools for building dynamic websites: native APIs to Apache and other web ...

> 5.1.62-log > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Bakkies Gatvol

4:32 p.m.

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Thank you! ________________________________ From: MediaWiki-l <mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Greg Rundlett (freephile) <greg(a)freephile.com> Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 9:24 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] eye-catching (ugly!) skin OK, so you can undelete the page, and edit it make the content the way you want. I gave the example of using the wildcard selector: * with a CSS rule of background-color:yellow; You can edit / apply CSS however you like with that file. Just make sure the contents are valid CSS. # --------8<-------------8<--------------8<---------- BEGIN CSS ----------------- # /* No open or close tags needed */ # CSS comments allowed * { background-color: yellow; } # --------8<-------------8<--------------8<---------- END CSS ----------------- # Note: you could also complement this approach with MediaWiki:Sitenotice [1] [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sitenotice Manual:Interface/Sitenotice - MediaWiki<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sitenotice> www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki:Sitenotice is displayed above the page title for all users, unless it is superseded by another notice. The message is displayed if it is defined. 'Defined ... Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com eQuality Technology = Let's work together<https://equality-tech.com/> equality-tech.com Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is founding director of the Web Foundation. Sir Tim says "It has taken all of us to build the web we have, and ... https://freephile.org On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Bakkies Gatvol <bakgat8(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

...

* { background-color:yellow!important; } I'm sure that will do the trick! Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com

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> on redhat > > Now I want to make the old wiki 1.18.13 using the monobook skin some > screaming ugly color - to help show users which wiki is the old (stay

away

> from) vs the new (use this one) wiki > > > I copied the monobook skin and tried to change the headbg.jpg to some > colorful image - but it did no have the desired effect. I'd be happy

just

> changing the bgcolor to purple or something. > > > I am sure somebody here can give me a few pointers. This is just for a > week as we allow people to find / bookmark and be comfortable with the

new

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