Hello! I'm new to mediawiki, and just installed it. It works fine, but now I'd like to have the same beautiful skins as in the wikipedia, i.e. the Monobook skin. Now I looked at this page http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skins and then downloaded Smarty-2.6.2, and put it at the right place; then I did the LocalSettings.php changes (albeit I only did the smarty part - do I need to get PHPTal too?) so here's what I have now in my LocalSettings.php:
set_include_path(get_include_path() . ":" . $IP.'/Smarty-2.6.2/libs'); $wgUseSmarty = true;
Ok.. and that didn't change anything :) What am I supposed to do now, to be able to choose the Monobook skin?
Thank you very much for your help.
BoD
BoD wrote:
Hello! I'm new to mediawiki, and just installed it. It works fine, but now I'd like to have the same beautiful skins as in the wikipedia, i.e. the Monobook skin.
MonoBook is in MediaWiki 1.3 only. If you're not running the 1.3 beta, you won't have the MonoBook skin available.
Now I looked at this page http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skins and then downloaded Smarty-2.6.2, and put it at the right place; then I did the LocalSettings.php changes (albeit I only did the smarty part - do I need to get PHPTal too?) so here's what I have now in my LocalSettings.php:
We don't use Smarty. (There were some old experimental skins that did, but they were never completed and have been removed in 1.3.)
MonoBook uses PHPTal, but we include a copy in the MediaWiki tarball to simplify distribution and to make some application-specific fixes and workarounds. You don't need to download it separately, and it's the default skin so you should be seeing it automatically.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
BoD wrote:
Ok :) Too bad, I installed 1.2.6 of course. I suppose the migration is easy ? ;)
BoD
Brion Vibber wrote:
MonoBook is in MediaWiki 1.3 only. If you're not running the 1.3 beta, you won't have the MonoBook skin available.
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It should be.
BoD wrote:
Yep indeed it worked just fine :) Cool!
Now another question. How do you customize the sidebar ? For example I don't need this "Community portal" link... Thanks for your help.
BoD
dcrkid@optonline.net wrote:
It should be.
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I dont know just yet... I'm still trying to figure out how to install MediaWiki!
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