> > 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
