I upgraded a wiki (via Git) to the latest version,
which is 1.25alpha, and
discovered that core MediaWiki no longer includes any skins. To get skins
via Git, the error message at the top of the wiki helpfully recommended
"Cloning one of the mediawiki/skins/* repositories via git [sic] into the
skins/ directory of your MediaWiki installation." What was missing,
however, was an actual Git command to call. I looked in
mediawiki.org and
couldn't find anything either. I tried some obvious commands, like:
If you want to change the message displayed when no skins are installed
then patches welcome. :)
-Jeremy