Hello
This is a slightly different question from the one I asked some days ago. I want to have a mobile version of a wiki and is seems that the chick skin of 1.16.0 is a good candidate. So the idea was to have 2 installations:
http://localhost/wiki/ (on /var/www/wiki) with the modern skin http://localhost/wiki-mobile/ (on /var/www/wiki-mobile) with the chick skin
Now these wikis must connect to the same database. It is very unlikely that somebody from a mobile device would like to edit the wiki but if he does what happens? Suppose at the same time the page he is editing is edited by someone else using the non-mobile version, would it be considered as simultaneous editing?
thanks
Uwe Brauer
I was planning on trying this:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileSkin
but haven't yet, maybe you can give us a report back if it works as advertised.
"MobileSkin automatically detects the computer (device) requesting the page and determines if there is a skin that should be used instead. The user's preference is not changed, it simply becomes the user's default choice."
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Uwe Brauer Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 3:58 AM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] mobile wiki: connect 2 wikis with the same mediawikiversion to the same database?
Hello
This is a slightly different question from the one I asked some days ago. I want to have a mobile version of a wiki and is seems that the chick skin of 1.16.0 is a good candidate. So the idea was to have 2 installations:
http://localhost/wiki/ (on /var/www/wiki) with the modern skin http://localhost/wiki-mobile/ (on /var/www/wiki-mobile) with the chick skin
Now these wikis must connect to the same database. It is very unlikely that somebody from a mobile device would like to edit the wiki but if he does what happens? Suppose at the same time the page he is editing is edited by someone else using the non-mobile version, would it be considered as simultaneous editing?
thanks
Uwe Brauer
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:14:52 -0700, "trueskew" trueskew@gmail.com wrote:
I was planning on trying this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileSkin
but haven't yet, maybe you can give us a report back if it works as advertised.
Thanks so let me see whether I understand it. The extension detects the device which connects to the wiki and uses a standard skin, say modern, for "normal devices" and a special one, chick skin say, for mobile devices.
Do you know by change whether this is compatible with other 3rd party skins such as gumax?
Uwe Brauer
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