On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Taja
Anand<taja.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I've been trying to patch MediaWiki towards a bug for the past 4 days but
there is some weird stuff happening. The wiki behaves unresponsive to any
patches. Please help me out.
Till now, I've tried the following, but the wiki on my localhost functions
as though no changes have taken place:
1) Applied the first hack given on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Customizing_edit_toolbar [not even the table
icon appears]
Not sure why it's not working. As a general comment that guide sucks, and
I suggest to not use it. You shouldn't need to edit EditPage to add new toolbar
items, just tweak mwEditButtons[] and mwCustomEditButtons[] in your site
JS (I don't have a link to a guide on that offhand).
2) Set the predicate (preg_match) to zero in
Parser.php (689) [it still
parses it as a table]
I really don't understand why you'd be doing that. It doesn't make any
sense, and tweaking the Parser is certainly not something I'd recommend
for someone just starting out trying to hack MW.
3) removed all the content of index.php !! [it
still runs]
That makes no sense whatsoever...I can only guess your browser might
have the output cached locally? I dunno...it's weird.
Couple of suggestions though. Read through the documentation on [1]
for starters. The various pages linked on [2] are probably also really helpful.
As a general rule of thumb, I would suggest avoiding documentation from
Meta. It's usually really outdated and sometimes completely wrong. We
document everything on
Mediawiki.org now, so you're best off checking there
to answer more of your questions.
-Chad