Ideally the fallback skin should make it easier to download a default skin (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:All_skins is a horrible page to land on). I'm currently trying to find the url for Vector E.g. A link to save this to your skins folder. Either that or we might want to put Vector as a submodule?
PS. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Vector needs an update. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:18 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Exactly what I warned about. Yet another example of poor thinking/execution > and exactly what I predicted. > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:02 PM, James HK <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just went on to `git pull --rebase origin master` on getting MW >> 1.24 master and suddenly I see a "Whoops! The default skin for your >> wiki ($wgDefaultSkin), vector, is not available." >> >> I have to say that I'm not really interested in modifying the >> LocalSettings.php just to get a MW working as it used to be. >> >> I do expect when downloading MW it is at least functional and not >> comes with a message of "Whoops!" your missing something. >> >> The other funny thing, is the message which says: "You can paste the >> following lines into LocalSettings.php to enable all currently >> installed skins:" ( empty ) >> >> So I should paste an empty message to `LocalSettings.php`, what the hell!! >> >> If you at least provide a composer download for the standard skins, I >> could go on and do `composer mediawiki/vector-skin` without having >> the remember the location of some gerrit repo, doing some cryptic git >> submodule stuff or care about "mediawiki/skins/*" at all. >> >> Cheers >> >> On 8/7/14, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote: >> > This has just happened. >> > >> > The instructions MediaWiki will display should guide you through. Poke me >> > on IRC if the email I send earlier and the instructions don't help :) >> > >> > -- >> > Matma Rex >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
