I am very much with Lewis on this: Using outdated MW versions poses significant security risks.
That said, there is to my knowledge no one download package containing more than one skin. In fact, in the case of Chameleon there is no drop-in download package at all. You need to use Composer for installation. On the upside, it is compatible with MW 1.22 or higher. See installation instructions here: https://github.com/cmln/chameleon/blob/master/docs/installation.md You could also download old skin versions from Github, e.g. for Monobook go to https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-MonoBook , select the REL1_24 branch and download the ZIP. Of course, if you think that hitcounters are worth having, consider giving that unmaintained extension some love and making it compatible with modern MW. Others will thank you for it. Stephan ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On May 27, 2018 5:02 PM, Morten Blaabjerg <mortenblaabj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Lewis Cawte lewisca...@googlemail.com > > 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, mortenblaabj...@gmail.com > > > > 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 > > > > > > mortenblaabj...@gmail.com > > > > > > 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
