OK, so you can undelete the page, and edit it make the content the way you
want.
I gave the example of using the wildcard selector: * with a CSS rule of
background-color:yellow;
You can edit / apply CSS however you like with that file. Just make sure
the contents are valid CSS.
# --------8<-------------8<--------------8<---------- BEGIN CSS
----------------- #
/* No open or close tags needed */
# CSS comments allowed
* {
background-color: yellow;
}
# --------8<-------------8<--------------8<---------- END CSS
----------------- #
Note: you could also complement this approach with MediaWiki:Sitenotice [1]
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sitenotice
Greg Rundlett
https://eQuality-Tech.com
https://freephile.org
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Bakkies Gatvol <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is what I get for that URL
>
>
>
>
> MediaWiki:Common.css
> View or restore one deleted edit<http://creswiki.se.fss.
> aramark.com/wiki/Special:Undelete/MediaWiki:Common.css>?
>
> This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are
> provided below for reference.
>
> * 05:58, June 28, 2007 Agostoni<http://creswiki.se.
> fss.aramark.com/index.php?title=User:Agostoni&action=edit&redlink=1>
> (Talk<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/index.php?title=
> User_talk:Agostoni&action=edit&redlink=1> | contribs<http://creswiki.se.
> fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Agostoni> | block<
> http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:Block/Agostoni>) deleted
> "MediaWiki:Common.css<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/
> wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css>" (No longer required) (view/restore<
> http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/index.php?
> title=Special:Undelete&target=MediaWiki%3ACommon.css>)
>
> /* CSS placed here will be applied to all skins */
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: MediaWiki-l <[email protected]> on behalf of
> G Rundlett <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 8:41 AM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] eye-catching (ugly!) skin
>
> MediaWiki:Common.css is a file that you edit in the browser. It's part of
> the special "MediaWiki" namespace that affects the user interface.
>
> E.g. https://example.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css
>
>
> On Dec 4, 2017 8:35 AM, "Bakkies Gatvol" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > there is no common file - I tried editing the main - but it had no effect
> >
> > as far as I can tell
> >
> > /usr/local/www/mediawiki/skins/monobook]# ls -l
> > total 272
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 85 May 7 2012 FF2Fixes.css
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 1108 May 7 2012 IE50Fixes.css
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 1358 May 7 2012 IE55Fixes.css
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 1794 May 7 2012 IE60Fixes.css
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 1761 May 7 2012 IE70Fixes.css
> > -rwxrwxr-- 1 creswikiadmin www 782 Jun 24 2010 IEMacFixes.css
> > -rwxrwxr-- 1 creswikiadmin www 108 Jun 24 2010 KHTMLFixes.css
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 337 May 7 2012 Opera6Fixes.css
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 394 May 7 2012 Opera7Fixes.css
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 205 May 7 2012 Opera9Fixes.css
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 239 May 7 2012 audio.png
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 50 May 7 2012 bullet.gif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 549 May 7 2012
> > discussionitem_icon.gif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 213 May 7 2012 document.png
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 143 May 7 2012 external-ltr.png
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 157 May 7 2012 external-rtl.png
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 323 May 7 2012 file_icon.gif
> > -rwxrwxr-- 1 creswikiadmin www 23491 Jun 27 2007 handheld.css
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 7881 May 7 2012 headbg.jpg
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 342 May 7 2012 link_icon.gif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 918 May 7 2012 lock_icon.gif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 170 May 7 2012 magnify-clip.png
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 321 May 7 2012 mail_icon.gif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 22259 May 7 2012 main.css
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 294 May 7 2012 news_icon.png
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 47 May 7 2012 required.gif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 325 May 7 2012 user.gif
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 169 May 7 2012 video.png
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 8013 May 7 2012 wiki-indexed.png
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 creswikiadmin www 22736 May 7 2012 wiki.png
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: MediaWiki-l <[email protected]> on behalf of
> > Greg Rundlett (freephile) <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 5:00 PM
> > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] eye-catching (ugly!) skin
> >
> > Unless you have sitewide CSS controlled by the Gadgets extension like
> > MW.org, in which case the interface is at a URL like
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-site.css
> >
> > Greg Rundlett
> > https://eQuality-Tech.com
> > eQuality Technology = Let's work together<https://equality-tech.com/>
> > equality-tech.com
> > Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is founding director
> > of the Web Foundation. Sir Tim says "It has taken all of us to build the
> > web we have, and ...
> >
> >
> > https://freephile.org
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Just edit MediaWiki:Common.css on the old wiki to include something
> like
> > >
> > > * { background-color:yellow!important; }
> > >
> > > I'm sure that will do the trick!
> > >
> > >
> > > Greg Rundlett
> > > https://eQuality-Tech.com
> > eQuality Technology = Let's work together<https://equality-tech.com/>
> > equality-tech.com
> > Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is founding director
> > of the Web Foundation. Sir Tim says "It has taken all of us to build the
> > web we have, and ...
> >
> >
> > > https://freephile.org
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Bakkies Gatvol <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> thanks to everyone who helped me upgrade from 1.18.3 to the latest
> wiki
> > >> on redhat
> > >>
> > >> Now I want to make the old wiki 1.18.13 using the monobook skin some
> > >> screaming ugly color - to help show users which wiki is the old (stay
> > away
> > >> from) vs the new (use this one) wiki
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I copied the monobook skin and tried to change the headbg.jpg to some
> > >> colorful image - but it did no have the desired effect. I'd be happy
> > just
> > >> changing the bgcolor to purple or something.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I am sure somebody here can give me a few pointers. This is just for a
> > >> week as we allow people to find / bookmark and be comfortable with the
> > new
> > >> wiki.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Want to do this on Monday !
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Thanks much
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Installed software
> > >> Product Version MediaWiki<http://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.18.3 PHP<
> > >> http://www.php.net/> 5.3.10 (apache2handler) MySQL<
> > http://www.mysql.com/>
> > [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/
> > PHP-logo.svg/220px-PHP-logo.svg.png]<http://www.php.net/>
> >
> > PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor<http://www.php.net/>
> > www.php.net<http://www.php.net>
> > Server-side HTML embedded scripting language. It provides web developers
> > with a full suite of tools for building dynamic websites: native APIs to
> > Apache and other web ...
> >
> >
> > >> 5.1.62-log
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