Mailing List Archive: Monobook skin ?

Monobook skin ?

Jun 25, 2004, 8:05 AM

Post #1 of 6 (1362 views)

Hello! I'm new to mediawiki, and just installed it. It works fine, but
now I'd like to have the same beautiful skins as in the wikipedia, i.e.
the Monobook skin.
Now I looked at this page http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skins and then
downloaded Smarty-2.6.2, and put it at the right place; then I did the
LocalSettings.php changes (albeit I only did the smarty part - do I need
to get PHPTal too?) so here's what I have now in my LocalSettings.php:

set_include_path(get_include_path() . ":" . $IP.'/Smarty-2.6.2/libs');
$wgUseSmarty = true;

Ok.. and that didn't change anything :) What am I supposed to do now, to
be able to choose the Monobook skin?

Thank you very much for your help.

BoD

Re: Monobook skin ? [ In reply to ]

brion at pobox

Jun 25, 2004, 11:05 AM

Post #2 of 6 (1324 views)

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BoD wrote:
> Hello! I'm new to mediawiki, and just installed it. It works fine, but
> now I'd like to have the same beautiful skins as in the wikipedia, i.e.
> the Monobook skin.

MonoBook is in MediaWiki 1.3 only. If you're not running the 1.3 beta,
you won't have the MonoBook skin available.

> Now I looked at this page http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skins and then
> downloaded Smarty-2.6.2, and put it at the right place; then I did the
> LocalSettings.php changes (albeit I only did the smarty part - do I need
> to get PHPTal too?) so here's what I have now in my LocalSettings.php:

We don't use Smarty. (There were some old experimental skins that did,
but they were never completed and have been removed in 1.3.)

MonoBook uses PHPTal, but we include a copy in the MediaWiki tarball to
simplify distribution and to make some application-specific fixes and
workarounds. You don't need to download it separately, and it's the
default skin so you should be seeing it automatically.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Re: Monobook skin ? [ In reply to ]

BoD at JRAF

Jun 25, 2004, 12:52 PM

Post #3 of 6 (1347 views)

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Ok :) Too bad, I installed 1.2.6 of course.
I suppose the migration is easy ? ;)

BoD

Brion Vibber wrote:
>
>
> MonoBook is in MediaWiki 1.3 only. If you're not running the 1.3 beta,
> you won't have the MonoBook skin available.
>

Re: Re: Monobook skin ? [ In reply to ]

dcrkid at optonline

Jun 25, 2004, 1:01 PM

Post #4 of 6 (1333 views)

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BoD wrote:

> Ok :) Too bad, I installed 1.2.6 of course.
> I suppose the migration is easy ? ;)
>
> BoD
>
>
>
> Brion Vibber wrote:
> >
>
>>
>> MonoBook is in MediaWiki 1.3 only. If you're not running the 1.3
>> beta, you won't have the MonoBook skin available.
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> MediaWiki-l mailing list
> MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
>
It should be.

Re: Monobook skin ? [ In reply to ]

BoD at JRAF

Jun 25, 2004, 1:51 PM

Post #5 of 6 (1336 views)

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Yep indeed it worked just fine :) Cool!

Now another question. How do you customize the sidebar ? For example I
don't need this "Community portal" link...
Thanks for your help.

BoD

dcrkid@optonline.net wrote:
>
> It should be.

Re: Re: Monobook skin ? [ In reply to ]

dcrkid at optonline

Jun 25, 2004, 2:09 PM

Post #6 of 6 (1337 views)

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BoD wrote:

> Yep indeed it worked just fine :) Cool!
>
> Now another question. How do you customize the sidebar ? For example I
> don't need this "Community portal" link...
> Thanks for your help.
>
> BoD
>
>
> dcrkid@optonline.net wrote:
>
>>
>> It should be.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> MediaWiki-l mailing list
> MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
>
I dont know just yet... I'm still trying to figure out how to install
MediaWiki!

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