Sorry if this is a newbie question. I've not done my research.
If I want to drastically change the appearance and have new types of navigation on the site and what not, I think I can do that but I need to update that template or theme every time there's an update to the Mediawiki software - this is what I had learned a while ago but it may not be true any longer.
Or is there an easier way to plugin a theme and have it work even after updates? Is this the right thing to check out? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Theme
Erik
No you would write a skin. See core skin implementations in skins/ We sort of have documentation but our manual on skinning is absolute garbage. The Skin system isn't all that great till at least 1.18 (though it is usable).
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
On 11-09-14 02:40 PM, Eric K wrote:
Sorry if this is a newbie question. I've not done my research.
If I want to drastically change the appearance and have new types of navigation on the site and what not, I think I can do that but I need to update that template or theme every time there's an update to the Mediawiki software - this is what I had learned a while ago but it may not be true any longer.
Or is there an easier way to plugin a theme and have it work even after updates? Is this the right thing to check out? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Theme
Erik
Has anyone successfully modified the Vector skin to have the Monaco skin feature of popup menus that are customizable using Mediawiki pages? If yes, let me know and I would like to have that skin from you. thanks Erik
________________________________ From: Daniel Friesen lists@nadir-seen-fire.com To: mediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Using themes / templates
No you would write a skin. See core skin implementations in skins/ We sort of have documentation but our manual on skinning is absolute garbage. The Skin system isn't all that great till at least 1.18 (though it is usable).
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
On 11-09-14 02:40 PM, Eric K wrote:
Sorry if this is a newbie question. I've not done my research.
If I want to drastically change the appearance and have new types of navigation on the site and what not, I think I can do that but I need to update that template or theme every time there's an update to the Mediawiki software - this is what I had learned a while ago but it may not be true any longer.
Or is there an easier way to plugin a theme and have it work even after updates? Is this the right thing to check out? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Theme
Erik
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Eric K wrote:
Sorry if this is a newbie question. I've not done my research.
If I want to drastically change the appearance and have new types of navigation on the site and what not, I think I can do that but I need to update that template or theme every time there's an update to the Mediawiki software - this is what I had learned a while ago but it may not be true any longer.
Or is there an easier way to plugin a theme and have it work even after updates? Is this the right thing to check out? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Theme
Erik
If they are just CSS changes, you could place them in the MediaWiki namespace instead of creating a new skin (or add a dumb skin for them).
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