On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> 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 > <[email protected]> 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 > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Lewis Cawte < > [email protected]> > >> > 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, < > [email protected] > >> > > >> >> 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, > >> >> > > >> >> > Morten Blaabjerg > >> >> > [email protected] > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > >> >> > MediaWiki-l mailing list > >> >> > To unsubscribe, go to: > >> >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > >> >> > > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> MediaWiki-l mailing list > >> >> To unsubscribe, go to: > >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > MediaWiki-l mailing list > >> > To unsubscribe, go to: > >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> MediaWiki-l mailing list > >> To unsubscribe, go to: > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > To unsubscribe, go to: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
