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
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).
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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