Meta talk:Babel/Archives/2005

Please do not post any new comments on this page. This is a discussion archive first created in 2005, although the comments contained were likely posted before and after this date. See current discussion or the archives index.

The long and winding road.... to create an own skin

I tried to setup a MediaWiki as a small "knowledge-base", and of course, I want my own CI. The 'monobook'-Skin is very fine, so I just need to replace the logo, and change some menue items. I thought it would be the best way to create an own skin, and copy the CSS-files from 'monobook'. I think its "cleaner" than just changin 'monobooks'-imgfiles, and I dont know how my wiki will develop in the future. But i've got the same problems like many other Users around here: Theres no complete description how to create a new skin, which consequences this will have, etc. Or perhaps I haven't found it yet? Does anyone know a document (or better: a Tutorial!) describing how to create an new skin in detail? I know Skins, but I don't think its very useful.

Thank you, Ni5saar

unable to install

I'm running PHP 4.4.0 and MySQL 4.1, and every other time I try to install MediaWiki, the installation stops right here (1):

Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server.

At this point, I refresh the page, and I get the following error (2):

Trying to connect to MySQL on localhost as root...

   * MySQL error 1251: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

I then go into the MySQL Command Line Client and do the following:

SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = OLD_PASSWORD('...');

(I only want to run it locally for testing purposes, hence my using the root account).

I then reload the page and I get error (1). I do the SET PASSWORD thing, get error (2), get error (1) again, and... basically, I'm not making any progress and would appreciate any help that could be offered.

Article validation feature - Best approach?

There's a recently introduced new feature called "Article validation" to make wikipedia more reliable. I don't feel that "rating an article" is the correct approach. You're welcome to read my reasoning and discuss here: Talk:Article_validation_feature (scroll down a bit). Cheers! Alons 12:39, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Rename to remove confusion?

The word "Babel" is used elsewhere here, and even more in other MediaWiki sites, in reference to Meta:Babel templates. I'd like to suggest that this general discussion pair of pages be moved to something like Meta:Watercooler or Meta:Village pump with a permanent note at the top linking to Meta:Babel templates. Robin Patterson 12:10, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Oppose renaming - First, I do not confuse Babel generally with Babel templates specifically. Second, this is a multilingual page. "Watercooler" and "village pump" are both English-language metaphors. In contrast, "Babel" is also English-language, but it is proper noun. --Kernigh 22:41, 26 December 2005 (UTC)