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
