On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Chad<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Taja Anand<[email protected]> 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 It's usually really outdated and sometimes completely wrong.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 >
Duh sorry. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker and [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
