Hi,
I want to develop a skin for MediaWiki and need some help with a number of issues I have faced. I read How to guilde.[1]. There are references to Example skin and Skin Labs skin. I could not install the Skin Labs skin as it is tagged for MediaWiki 1.37+ and then I started to look into the Example Skin. As MediaWiki is moving to the Mustache all the previous skin related docs are marked as outdated.
So can you please refer me to the doc pages where I can get the equivalent amount of guidelines of the old doc pages. I have a few queries related to migrating an old style skin to Mustache. If a straight migration is not possible, I am ok to start from scratch as well.
I asked a few questions to the Support Desk [2] but did not get any response there. I tried to Discord [3] but only one person replied to me. But that was not the solution I asked for. Earlier I reported some bugs to Phabricator but did not get the answers there as well.
So it would be really helpful if please help refer me to some doc, and mention where is the right place to get answers.
Thanks Nasir Khan
[1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_make_a_MediaWiki_skin [2] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk [3] - https://discord.com/channels/178359708581625856/178361730986934273
-- *Nasir Khan Saikat* www.nasirkhn.com
I can't help much with Mustache, but I'll note that all of the older documentation is still valid. Skins that do not use Mustache templates are still supported.
Thanks for your reply Bartosz.
I can see that the PHP based skins are working now (Mediawiki 1.35.*) but the same skin does not work on Mediawiki 1.36+. I mentioned in my previous email that I built a skin long ago and Jon Robson helped to upgrade that afterwards.
My concern is that Mediawiki is moving towards Mustache and old skin docs are marked as outdated. But I found only one single page doc about this new system. Though you are saying those are valid. The core team who are working on this skin section can create the equivalent amount of docs which are available for PHP based skins. I can help to write the docs as well but as I am not building the system I have a number of queries regarding this. If I get the answers then I can create the related docs.
Is there anyone who can help me to improve the skin docs of MediaWiki and I will get the help to build the skin from that.
-- *Nasir Khan Saikat* www.nasirkhn.com
On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 at 21:01, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.com wrote:
I can't help much with Mustache, but I'll note that all of the older documentation is still valid. Skins that do not use Mustache templates are still supported.
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