On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
The official tarball releases are at: https://releases.wikimedia. org/mediawiki/
For the old versions of skins, you can download from urls like https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Vector/archive/REL1_24.zip (Replace 1_24 with the version of MediaWiki you are using. So if you are using 1.26, it would be 1_26)
Great. Managed to install 1.24 with a compatible version of the "frontend" skin. That will do great! Feels wonderful to get the "last" of the "old" MediaWiki back!
It should be noted that older unsupported versions of MediaWiki have known security issues, and we strongly encourage people to only use supported versions of MediaWiki.
I can understand that. However, I like to live life dangerously :-)
Thx again! Morten :-)
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Morten Blaabjerg mortenblaabjerg@gmail.com wrote:
Skins are always included in the official tarball release. However if you are downloading from git, you have to download skins separately. The skins in Wikimedia's git repo all have REL1_XX branches for each version, so all the old versions are available.
Can't seem to find this. Can you help with a direct link, so that I can
tell where to look ? Thanks!
-- Brian
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Morten Blaabjerg mortenblaabjerg@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Lewis Cawte <
lewiscawte@googlemail.com>
wrote:
Never tried it but the functionality was moved into an extension, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters
I found this, but is seems unsupported, and I would probably be just
as
worse off with this as I would be with using 1.24 with a compatible
skin.
The MediaWiki site probably will not distribute the old versions of
skins
although they do exist in the old branches of their respective Git repositories.
Would be great if I could just get a link to download a package of
some
of
the compatible skins. I'm going to hack them to pieces anyway, just
need
to
get the wiki up and running with a skin, which is not too difficult to
work
with. Foreground, Chamaeleon, Tweeki or even some of the old simple
skins
would probably do for starters.
Is there any particular reason why you are using such an old
unsupported
version of MediaWiki?
Yes. The new version doesn't support "pageviews" and the "special:popularpages" has been removed. Why they would not simply
leave
it
in to people to enable or disable it according to their tastes, I
don't
get. I always thought it was quite useful for a small wiki to get an indication of what pages were actually read by people.
Sorry I can't be of more help at the moment - currently sat on a
campsite.
Sure! Thanks for your time!
I am an old user/admin of MediaWiki from way back in the early days. A lot has changed since then for MW - a lot to the better. But I don't
like
the serious roadblocks that are in place for someone like me to not
get
to
use an earlier version of the software, if I so please. Should be
fairly
simple to keep old skins around to get to, if one had the taste for
it.
-- Lewis Cawte
On Sun, 27 May 2018, 12:13 Morten Blaabjerg, <
mortenblaabjerg@gmail.com
wrote:
I am building a proof of concept site, which will at a later stage,
if it
works the way I intend, be rebuilt from scratch and up.
I wanted to use MediaWiki for this project, because of the speed by
which
it is possible to create a lot of articles in a short amount of
time,
and
it has some cool statistics and special pages too to manage things,
and I
simply love the template functionality too.
However, upon installing, I was surprised to learn, that the
"pageviews"
and "special:popularpages" was gone from the mediawiki from 1.25
onward,
and I had great trouble installing 1.24 which was the last version
with
this functionality, because no skins were included with the old
version,
and I failed in finding compatible skins for this version, despite
spending
most of an evening online searching. On the official repository I
can
find
only skins compatible back to 1.27.
I would like to use a modern skin which is compatible with 1.24, or
the
other way around, re-introduce the "pageviews" and "popularpages" functionality into the current mw version, via an extension, if
possible.
I don't want to go all the way to install google analytics. I just
need
the
simple indication of how many times a page was asked for by a
browser,
and
the accumulative results shown in the "special:popularpages"
special
page.
What is the best way to achieve that? I can understand the
functionality
removal was done with some dissent, so maybe someone already made
an
extension for this functionality, or would it be comparatively
easy to
build one by oneself (since the code already exists, I assume).
This is for a small mediawiki project, with just 1 editor, and no
signups
for anyone else, so I intend to use raw html in wiki pages as well.
So I
would have no problem using a workaround - say putting some code
in a
template which is then in turn loaded in every page. But of
course, it
would be more easy to have it as part of the footer as it used to
be.
Thanks in advance for any help in guiding me in the right
direction.
Venlige hilsener,
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