MediaWiki skin gumax 3.0 is released

It has been a while before this new skin is released. I had worked on a few bugs under Internet Explorer 6, such as color, position, and page size. also I tested this new skin under new MediaWiki 1.9.0, and it works very well. Here are some highlights of this new skin.

Fixed size of the page, give MediaWiki more professional look
Moved login menu to top for easy access
Simplify the design, make it look clean
Fix the login form which is invisible in IE
Fix the create account form which is invisible in IE
Fix the preferences positioning and floating in IE
Enable edit section
Page background is using customized pictures, which allows users to customize specific look, such as color and shadow
Many other optimization

It works on Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 6.0, and Internet Explorer 7.0, and It had been tested under MediaWiki 1.8.2, it may work with other MediaWiki versions.

Your comments or suggestions are welcomed. Feel free to offer any general comments or offer a suggestion on how I can improve this skin, and please post on MediaWiki Skin

Filed by Paul Gu at January 15th, 2007 under MediaWiki Skin

Hello,

I have modified your skin a little bit to fit out liking. But I did notice a problem:

http://www.taac.us/index.php?title=Blessed_John_XXIII

There are huge white spaces after the sections in IE7. It does not show up in Firefox. I also noticed that there is a problem with the graphic that shows a link is offsite. Again this is only in IE7.

Thanks.

Anthony

Comment by Patriarch Anthony — January 15, 2007 @ 1:30 pm (Quote)

Hi Anthony,

I checked your mods, you changed the width to 100%, this is OK.

I had tested your web site under Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer, it works great. I cannot see any thing wrong with it.

I guess your browser still has cache and may cause some weird look.

Comment by Paul — January 15, 2007 @ 1:41 pm (Quote)

I guess I should have done this first…Here is a screenshot of what I see with IE7. I did clear my browser cache and still have this problem.

http://www.taac.us/ScreenCapture_date_15_01_2007_time_17_54_34.jpg

You can see the white spaces on this screenshot down toward the bottom.

http://www.taac.us/ScreenCapture_date_15_01_2007_time_17_54_08.jpg

Here you can see where I have the black box around the menu. The bookstore link works right but the Online store does not have the image and just has a whitespace after it.

Thanks

Anthony

Comment by Patriarch Anthony — January 15, 2007 @ 6:02 pm (Quote)

Hi Anthony,

Your specific issue only happens in Internet Explorer, I guess because the positioning tags in style file conflicts with your templates, you can try add or change positioning tag in your templates, as well as change some positioning in the style sheet.

Comment by Paul — January 15, 2007 @ 9:57 pm (Quote)

Hi Paul,

The new skin looks great.
What have you done for some of the extensions that you’re using?

Ycgu-box-t
Ycgu-gbox

Thanks!

Comment by George — January 16, 2007 @ 12:47 am (Quote)

These are MediaWiki templates. If you have several standard pages on Wiki page, you need templates.

The detail help can be found at MediaWiki templates.

Comment by Paul — January 16, 2007 @ 7:51 am (Quote)

I was frustrated with the stale look of my wiki and had considered switching to something other than mediawiki – but then I found your gumax skin. Very nice work.

Thanks!

Comment by Doug Sharp — January 19, 2007 @ 4:28 pm (Quote)

When I logon to my wiki, the skin reverts to the default. When I log out, it picks up your skin. I just upgraded my site to 1.8.2 and ran the upgrade scripts as instructed by the host (Dreamhost). Have you seen this before? Any ideas?

Thanks,
Doug

Comment by Doug Sharp — January 19, 2007 @ 5:36 pm (Quote)

Hi Doug,

You are very welcome. If you want to use a skin as the default, open the file LocalSettings.php, and find or add this to the file:

$wgDefaultSkin = ‘gumax’;

This will set “gumax” as your default skin for your Wiki, and this will only affect the new users.

For the existing users, they must go to My Preferences -> Skin and set the skin to “guman” in order to use the new skin.

BTW, thank you very much for your support.

Regards,

Paul

Comment by Paul — January 19, 2007 @ 6:49 pm (Quote)

Paul,

Thanks for giving away this fantastic work! I’ve implemented it in my corporate wiki so I’ll let you know how the staff likes the UI. Keep em coming!

Cheers,

Paul

Comment by Paul — January 21, 2007 @ 12:41 pm (Quote)

#10

The issue I mentioned earlier on your blog was my mistake. Both skins I’ve tried (gumax and _ycgu_max_) work perfectly in Firefox 1.5 and IE 6.

I’ve made a small donation via paypal – you obviously put a great deal of time into these designs.

Thanks again,
Doug

Comment by Doug Sharp — January 21, 2007 @ 12:47 pm (Quote)

#11

I’m so glad that you figured it out .

Your support made a big difference for me, thank you very much. If any question about the skin, feel free to ask here.

Paul Gu

Comment by Paul Gu — January 21, 2007 @ 12:54 pm (Quote)

#12

love the skin – great work.

Comment by jeremy barnish — January 21, 2007 @ 2:58 pm (Quote)

#13

I’m so glad you love it .

Comment by Paul Gu — January 21, 2007 @ 4:02 pm (Quote)

#14

Paul:

I very much admire your work, but I have a few questions. These are very rudimentary questions as I am new to setting up a Wiki; please feel free to send me elsewhere if there’s a discussion forum that would be a better place.

Media-Wiki is installed, though I haven’t figured out how to do a lot of the customization yet. Instead I added your skin (I was looking for something that was clean and elegant and didn’t necessarily look like a Wiki). I am quite comfortable with css and basic html, so I was able to make some changes (as you’ll see if you look at the url I left).

Here are the things that are unclear to me, and I haven’t been able to find instructions anywhere:

Is there a way to have the sidebar on the internal pages? And if not, how do you get to the toolbox?

I’d really like a larger (height) header, and a larger logo space. Is there an easy way to do that?

Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.

Comment by Rosina Lippi — January 26, 2007 @ 10:51 pm (Quote)

#15

Hi Rosina,

Here are what I got for you:

1) Yes, you could put the sidebar inside the pages, you need to know a little bit of php programming. My skin has all the wiki tools that MedaiaWiki has: the navigation is the main menu, the login is on the top, the content tools is at the end of the page, and the rest of tools are located at the footer. This design is dedicated to maximize the page space and make it look like professional web site.

2) If you need to change the height of the header, open file ycgu_template.css and file following section:

#header {
background: #fff;
position: relative;
z-index: 100; /* make logo visible over content*/
min-height: 80px; /* height of header */
height: 80px; /* need for IE */
voice-family: “\”}\”";
voice-family: inherit;
margin: 0;
padding-top: 30px; /* height factor of header */
} #ignored {}

change the min-height and height to whatever you like.

Any other questions, please feel free to ask here .

Comment by Paul Gu — January 27, 2007 @ 1:32 am (Quote)

#16

Hi Paul, I just tried to install your skin onto my wiki: http://www.df06.overkillgame.com but when you change the preferences to use it all you can see is a blank gray page.

Am I being stupid? I just unzipped the files into the skins directory, is there anything I should edit to get this to work?

Adam

Comment by Adam — January 27, 2007 @ 11:23 pm (Quote)

#17

Hi Adam,

I checked your MediaWiki version, it shows MediaWiki: 1.6.7. I think that’s most like the problem because I haven’t tested my skin on MediaWiki below 1.7.2.

Comment by Paul Gu — January 27, 2007 @ 11:48 pm (Quote)

#18

It works fine for me on 1.6.7 after I removed line 81ish of gumax.php, which calls to makeglobalvariablesscript(). I have to wait for my host to update to PHP5 until I can upgrade. The skin really looks great!

Comment by Kai Brinker — January 30, 2007 @ 5:42 pm (Quote)

#19

I provided the wrong URL for my clickable name in the comment above. If you want to see it working on 1.6.7, click the name above *this* entry.

Comment by Kai Brinker — January 30, 2007 @ 5:45 pm (Quote)

#20

I do have one question… What’s the ideal image size for the logo? I used my MonoBook-perfect 135×135 version and it got cut off. I cropped it to 135×80, but the problem remains.

Comment by Kai Brinker — January 30, 2007 @ 5:52 pm (Quote)

#21

It’s great that you figured it out .

My skin doesn’t limit the logo size, as long as it fits inside the header. If you have a customized logo, you need to open file ycgu_template.css, and change the following section:

#p-logo,
#p-logo a,
#p-logo a:hover { width: 180px; height: 72px; }

and

#header {
background: #fff;
position: relative;
z-index: 100; /* make logo visible over content*/
min-height: 80px; /* height of header */
height: 80px; /* need for IE */
voice-family: “\”}\”";
voice-family: inherit;
margin: 0;
padding-top: 30px; /* height factor of header */
} #ignored {}

Change the logo width and height, as well as header height.

Comment by Paul Gu — January 30, 2007 @ 6:15 pm (Quote)

#22

Hi Paul-

Awesome skin! I’ve been messing around with an internal wiki and would really love to change the names of the navigation tabs at the top of the page…but can’t for the life of me figure out how to do so. Am I missing something? Any advice would be great.

Thanks!
~kyla

Comment by Kyla — February 2, 2007 @ 1:58 pm (Quote)

#23

i cannot find the items i put in the monobook sidebar. How to recreate in your skin

Comment by joe — February 3, 2007 @ 1:25 am (Quote)

#24

Hi Kyla,

For changing the tabs:

In Mediawiki search field, enter “mediawiki:sidebar”, then edit the page and change items to whatever you want.

To see the changes, you need to clean the browser cache.

Comment by Paul Gu — February 3, 2007 @ 1:32 am (Quote)

#25

Hi Joe,

Did you add any code to the monobook.php?

If you did, you need to open gumax.php file and add the same code manually.

Comment by Paul Gu — February 3, 2007 @ 1:35 am (Quote)

#26

lovely work… I really wanted something to help me make my site not look like just another mediawiki site… your skin did the trick, with a little massaging…

nicely set out and easy to go through…

well done… and great that you make your work available.. if only more of us were doing the same.

Comment by BigBad — February 4, 2007 @ 5:31 am (Quote)

#27

Thank you.

Comment by Paul Gu — February 4, 2007 @ 5:40 am (Quote)

#28

Hey paul, just realised in ie5 and 6 the background of the main text area is infront of all my divs … still can click them but can’t see them… any idea what could be causing that?

Comment by BigBad — February 6, 2007 @ 6:34 am (Quote)

#29

I checked your site, everything works great. I’m not exactly sure what is your issue, but you could check if you have “position:absolute” and “z-index” in those divs.

Comment by Paul Gu — February 6, 2007 @ 6:55 am (Quote)

#30

Hey paul, just fixed before reading your post… guess what the problem was?

“position:absolute” and “z-index”

; -) you da man… lill paypal coming your way mate.

THanks for your help.

Comment by BigBad — February 6, 2007 @ 7:13 am (Quote)

#31

Hi Bigbad,

You are welcome.
Thank you very much for your donation and great support.

Paul

Comment by Paul Gu — February 6, 2007 @ 7:24 am (Quote)

#32

Hi Paul,

Gunmax skin is such wonderful. I had implemented in my wiki 1.6.9(http://www.thuvienkhoahoc.com/map/). However, i could not show a js typing tool (http://www.thuvienkhoahoc.com/map/MediaWiki:Him.js) that normally below sidebar in the monobook skin (http://www.thuvienkhoahoc.com/map/MediaWiki:Monobook.js). Could you kindly show me how to put these radio buttons either below or above link to Special:Whatlinkhere, Special:Recentchangeslinked .v.v?

Comment by vietbio — February 7, 2007 @ 9:43 pm (Quote)

#33

I haven’t tested Monobook.js under my skin, so I’m not sure how it works and what it looks like.

If you want to add the menu to the “Toolbox”, you need to open file “gumax.php”, then find section: personal tools, you could add any link or buttons there.

Comment by Paul Gu — February 7, 2007 @ 11:54 pm (Quote)

#34

Really like the projects here. When do you think you will have the code posted for the latest wiki skin?

Thanks in advance.

Comment by Tom — February 10, 2007 @ 1:16 pm (Quote)

#35

I have mid-term right now, and many assignments and readings need to be completed .

I still have a little work on the new skin before I can release it.

Comment by Paul Gu — February 10, 2007 @ 4:08 pm (Quote)

#36

Hey paul,

I am trying to set up my site http://www.radiopaedia.org to have a thin column on the right for image thumbs, the rest of the page for text. What I would like is the colum border for the images to go all the way down to the bottom of the text irrespective of howmany images there are…

below these two blocks I would like a full width horizontal block…

I cant figure out which bock the main content is in..? I figure I can specify both of these with absolute position. How would I get each of the two top blocks to be only as long as the longest of the two?

this page is an example http://www.radiopaedia.org/index.php?title=Haemangioblastoma

I you can help that would be great.

Comment by BigBad — February 13, 2007 @ 6:14 am (Quote)

#37

Print Version.

Hi Paul,

Your template its clean and amazing.

Im wondereing: where is the Print Friendly link?

Did you removed it?

If yes.. how can I take it back? Its a really good feature, when we want print some articles.

Best regards,

Comment by Igor Morgado — February 13, 2007 @ 9:35 am (Quote)

#38

Hello Paul,
I´m from Germany and found your Skin today. It´s great that there is a different skin from the mediawiki skin. I tried to change it a little bit like you have it done on the photo. Can you tell me where I have to change the navigation menu? I want to put some links above the page and put my own at the navigation on the top instead of like you did it with Myblog, Links, contact me etc.

Best regards
Carsten

Comment by Carsten — February 13, 2007 @ 4:01 pm (Quote)

#39

Hi Carsten,

Navigation menu is in the mediawiki. In order to change it, type “MediaWiki:Sidebar” in search field, then edit the page.

Comment by Paul Gu — February 14, 2007 @ 1:33 am (Quote)

#40

Hi Igor,

I haven’t looked at that function, I will add it to my next release if I missed.

Comment by Paul Gu — February 14, 2007 @ 1:35 am (Quote)

#41

Hi BigBad,

You could use templates to do that, instead of coding. I think it would be easier.

Comment by Paul Gu — February 14, 2007 @ 1:40 am (Quote)

#42

Hello Paul,
I’ve tried it with MediaWiki:Sidebar. But I only get a notice that there is no page with the title MediaWiki:Sidebar. I´m using the newest version. Could it be that there is something different in the version 1.9.0?

Another problem is that at the bottom of the page your Skin doesn’t work. Maybe the Skin doesn’t work with 1.9.0.

Best regards
Carsten

Comment by Carsten — February 14, 2007 @ 5:04 am (Quote)

#43

Hi Paul,

I’m making a very small community website and your skin is excellent and much more user friendly than the other mediawiki skins in my opinion. I’m trying to edit the sidebar and run into the same problem that Carsten does, I get the no page exists message. I’m using 1.9.2.

Thanks for your work on this!

Comment by Eric — February 14, 2007 @ 5:41 am (Quote)

#44

Carsten

You should look better;

http://ligabr.ath.cx/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Sidebar

(this is my sidebar, just as example.

Comment by Igor Morgado — February 14, 2007 @ 7:59 am (Quote)

#45

Ok, I found it. Even though the page says that there are no found results, the word Mediawiki:Sidebar is in red. If you click on it you’re taken to the right place. Not the best useablitiy structure but as always, once you know, you know.

Paul thanks again, its a brilliant skin.

Eric

Comment by Eric — February 14, 2007 @ 8:27 am (Quote)

#46

Seems to be a bug of the 1.9 version. When I put MediaWiki:Sidebar in the browser it works. But not in the search field.

Is it possible to put some parts of the sidebar to the footer? And how??

Igor
I’ve been at your website. Do you use .htaccess? That´s another part that doesn’t work. Can you tell me how you did it?

Comment by Carsten — February 14, 2007 @ 8:31 am (Quote)

#47

Thank you Eric. Now it works but the design has an error. For example at the bottom. Is this because of the version 1.9.2?

Comment by Carsten — February 14, 2007 @ 10:09 am (Quote)

#48

I think so, that’s why my next release will update the core code according mediawiki 1.9.0 and up.

Comment by Paul Gu — February 14, 2007 @ 10:12 am (Quote)

#49

Hello Paul,
I tried your AdSense extension. It´s a great tool and easy to install.

Is it possible to use other formats like a skyscraper or a 135×135 button?

What means “CAR” and “JOB”?

Sorry for asking so much staff but I really like your work

chao
Carsten

Comment by Carsten — February 14, 2007 @ 7:20 pm (Quote)

#50

in the login page when i type the wrong password i find that the error message is not visible as it is hidden behind the login form.is there something that can be done about it

Comment by ajay — February 20, 2007 @ 12:59 am (Quote)

#51

I fixed that in my skin 3.0; if you are using 2.0, there is a patch on my wiki. The issue only occurs in IE.

Comment by Paul Gu — February 20, 2007 @ 8:40 am (Quote)

#52

hi paul, i haven’t installed your skin yet–i’m going to wait until you have the 1.9.x compliant skin available. just a note to say it looks real good and you’re doing us all a great service. thanks!

Comment by Kris — February 24, 2007 @ 5:44 pm (Quote)

#53

I saw a couple of you have changed the logo and where it links… how do you do that? and how do you change which page loads when you enter when you just type in the domain name?

Comment by SactoEric — February 25, 2007 @ 5:12 pm (Quote)

#54

Nevermind… Google is my friend
–> change mediawiki:mainpage

Comment by SactoEric — February 25, 2007 @ 11:52 pm (Quote)

#55

Thanks for the skin Paul, it’s all working and looking great so I’ve sent you a donation!

It’s really made a big difference to our Wiki at http://df06.overkillgame.com/darkwiki/
so thanks once again and keep up the good work.

Adam Raphael

Comment by Adam — March 2, 2007 @ 2:42 am (Quote)

#56

Hi Adam,

Thank you very much for your donation and support.

Thanks,

Paul

Comment by Paul Gu — March 2, 2007 @ 7:09 pm (Quote)

#57

Hi,

this is a nice skin. but i have the version 1.6.9. I have only PHP 4 and not PHP5. have you a skin that is for version 1.6.9?

Comment by Nils — March 3, 2007 @ 11:22 am (Quote)

#58

Yes, you can install this skin by removing one line in gumax.php, refer to comment 19 from Kai Brinker.

Comment by Paul Gu — March 3, 2007 @ 12:42 pm (Quote)

#59

ok, thank you. it works well.

Comment by Nils — March 3, 2007 @ 1:34 pm (Quote)

#60

Hi Igor Morgado, i’m Brazilian too, and i saw your homepage with paulgu skin, it’s very interesting.
I’m doing a project with mediawiki to catalog all my city. I would like to chat with you about my idea, and to know if you can help me in design.
My contact is:
MSN: lleoliveira@yahoo.com.br
ICQ: 328854169
Skype: lleoliveira
Email: lleoliveirabr@gmail.com

Comment by Leonardo — March 7, 2007 @ 9:02 am (Quote)

#61

Hi Paul,

Just happened to see this page where I can give my comments/requests. You are really giving great support here!

It will be nice to have a jump icon/link to move from top to bottom or vice versa in a page. This is quite useful for large pages (eg. BluWiki skin).

Thanks,
Jaya

Comment by Jaya — March 7, 2007 @ 10:06 pm (Quote)

#62

Hi Jaya,

Great idea, I’ll try to add that in the new release .

Comment by Paul Gu — March 7, 2007 @ 10:18 pm (Quote)

#63

When is the new release coming out?

Comment by Anonymous — March 8, 2007 @ 7:29 pm (Quote)

#64

Great skin! But I have a little problem with Konqueror: there is a (very annoying) vertical scrollbar. With Firefox all seems to be OK.

I’ve noticed that there is a KHTMLFixes.css. How ca I use it?

Thank you for your job.

Comment by Christian — March 13, 2007 @ 5:07 pm (Quote)

#65

I’m preparing for my final exams and graduation now, so the new skin will be delayed. I think it will be available next month. Sorry for long waiting.

Hi Christian, you can open file ycgu_main.css, and add this line to the file:

@import url(“KHTMLFixes.css”);

That’s it.

Comment by Paul Gu — March 13, 2007 @ 5:26 pm (Quote)

#66

I’ve added “@import url(”KHTMLFixes.css”);” to ycgu_main.css but the problem is still there.

I’m using Konqueror 3.5.6 on Fedora Core 6. Note that this problem is not present in Konqueror 3.3.1 (testing on CentOS).

Comment by Christian — March 13, 2007 @ 5:39 pm (Quote)

#67

Best of luck on your exams, Paul. Don’t work too hard.

Comment by Nate — March 15, 2007 @ 10:10 pm (Quote)

#68

Hi Paul,

I just installed your VERY NICE skin to my new wikipage. And I’m customizing it to my liking….

But theres 2 things bothering me, that I cannot seem to fix.

http://www.davinia.nl/extern/help.gif

In the blue frame, that half transparant logo, will not go away. Do you know how to fix that.

In the red frames, the blue colors… I would like to change them to green, but cannot find where to do that.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could help me out.
Greetz, Davinia

Comment by Davinia — March 21, 2007 @ 2:47 pm (Quote)

#69

Hi Davinia,

I cannot see your wiki or the screen shot, I’m not sure what your issues are?

Comment by Paul Gu — March 21, 2007 @ 10:39 pm (Quote)

#70

Hmmz sorry, put the pic in the wrong place, should work now…

Comment by Davinia — March 22, 2007 @ 3:51 am (Quote)

#71

The first is same as wiki default setting in the LocalSettings.php called $wgLogo, and go to mediawiki to modify it.

The second is located in file ycgu_link_navigation.css.

Comment by Paul Gu — March 22, 2007 @ 8:46 am (Quote)

#72

How to hide Main Page title of mainpage?
On my wiki: Main Page = Página Inicial
I would like to hide that on gumax and other skins too.

Comment by Leonardo — March 22, 2007 @ 9:10 am (Quote)

#73

Thank you… it’s fixed. Looks beautifull now

Comment by Davinia — March 22, 2007 @ 10:01 am (Quote)

#74

“Enable edit section”

I read this on the description of the template, but I have been unable to see the edit links next to the sections in my content.

http://www.uniwiki.it/wiki/index.php/Chi_siamo

How can I activate them or put them in the template?

Thanx, great template btw, I love it!

Comment by Yossarian — March 26, 2007 @ 1:33 pm (Quote)

#75

Great Skin! I have the same problem as Yossarian … how to enable “edit section” …is that possible with your “_ycgu_max_” as well?

thanks,
Rainer

Comment by Rainer — March 30, 2007 @ 2:13 pm (Quote)

#76

Good morning,

thanks a lot Paulgu, I really like your skin and use it for the documentation wiki of 34all (http://goosebumps4all.net/34all/documentation).

One thing I wanted to let you know is that there is a reference in the ycgu_template.css file to an image by the name of container_bg.gif, which is not included in the download of your skin. I copied the image file from an older version of your skin, so I am fine, just wanted to let you know.

be well

martin

Comment by Martin — March 31, 2007 @ 5:26 pm (Quote)

#77

Hi Paul,

First let me say thanks for your time and effort on this project, it’s great – gongxi ni!

I’m trying to perform a particular modification with your skin – I wonder if you can help me out…

I want to divide the site between a “backroom staff” of editors and the “front end” regular users. No problems in setting the permissions to ensure this, but in order for it to really feel like a “real website”, I want the functional toolbox bits to be hidden from regular users, and only visible when an editor is logged in.

I can do these changes in the Monobook skin (yuck) but I seem to be having problems finding the relevant sections in your code to modify it. Any ideas?

Ganxie ni,

Mike

Comment by Mike — April 2, 2007 @ 1:17 pm (Quote)

#78

I’m really looking forward to your gumax 3.1 update. Hope you get time to work on it even though you’re not a student anymore. Could you send me an email once the skin is finished? Thanks…

Comment by Karsten — April 2, 2007 @ 4:09 pm (Quote)

#79

Hi All,

Sorry for late reply, since my final exams are coming. Thanks for all your comments.

======================================================

Hi Rainer,

Open file _ycgu_template.css and find this:

.editsection {
display: none;
margin-top: .6em;
font-size: 85%;
}

Remove the display: none; and you are done.

======================================================

Hi Mike,

You need to open the gumax.php, which has different structure with Monobook’s, but the core code are same.

Comment by Paul Gu — April 2, 2007 @ 7:18 pm (Quote)

#80

Hi, There,

Your skin looks nice but I could not find any instruction about how to install your skin. Do you have any at all?

Thanks!

Jim

Comment by jim — April 3, 2007 @ 4:47 pm (Quote)

#81

Also, a question about your site, it seems it is using wordpress instead of mediawiki. Is it true or not?

Thanks!

Comment by jim — April 3, 2007 @ 4:49 pm (Quote)

#82

Hi Jim,

The installation of skin is same as the other skins, which can be found on MediaWiki site.

For my site, I’m using both, so I can have two types of advanced features.

Comment by Paul Gu — April 3, 2007 @ 4:55 pm (Quote)

#83

Hi, Paul,

Thanks for the quick response!

I tried your skin. It only shows up before I login to my wiki. And it seems cannot have too many pages. All my pages show up on the top as tabs and they all crowd together, not look nice. Once I login, everything goes back as the monobook. Do you have an idea why is this?

It is interesting that you comingle mediawiki and worfpress together. Do you have any article or reference about how to do this? And what is your purpose of doing it? In other words, what kind of advantages you get from each and how you combine them together?

Thanks!

Jim

Comment by jim — April 3, 2007 @ 5:47 pm (Quote)

#84

Just figured out that the wordpress is based on the mediawiki. Therefore, the right question should really be how to use wordpress but still have the flexbility of mediawiki. I need do some homework about this one. Thanks!

Comment by jim — April 3, 2007 @ 6:44 pm (Quote)

#85

Hi Paul,

First lemme thank you for such a nice and wonderful template…now instead of using the goto and search buttons provided by you in the skin i would like to use the buttons which i designed using flash, can you please tell me how do i go about it, which file/ function do i need to modify.

Also do you have an instruction doc, which can be used by novices like me to customise the template?

Thnkz.

Comment by Abhinay — April 4, 2007 @ 11:48 pm (Quote)

#86

Hi Abhinay,

You need to open the file gumax.php in order to change images.

For skin customization, there have some on MediaWiki, and you need to do many research on the internet ( I’m assuming you have really good programing skills such as PHP, HTML, CSS, some design patterns, etc.).

Comment by Paul Gu — April 5, 2007 @ 8:43 am (Quote)

#87

Hi Paul,

Thank u for a quick reply, i am mostly involved with the graphics end of programming, yes i have worked with html but not extensively…but i do understand the logic and the code…will try modifying the gumax.php code file.

Thank you again for the reply.

Rgds

Comment by Abhinay — April 5, 2007 @ 10:07 am (Quote)

#88

Hi Paul,

Can you help me with this, i want to change “Powered by mediawki” and “Design by Paul Gu” links in footer to “Powered by Mediawiki Driven by Paul Gu”

I have located the following in the footer…

However whatever changes i make, the website doesnt change, it still shows
Powered by Mediawiki | Design by Paul gu

Also, i was browsing the mediawiki FAQ, it says that i can restrict users who are not logged in, from editing the pages although i entered the code in the gumax.php source file , the condition did not work.

The “if” condition is as stated below…

data['loggedin']) { ?>

.editsection { display: none; }

It wud be kind of you to help me sort these bugs…

Rgds
Abhinay

Comment by Abhinay — April 5, 2007 @ 7:44 pm (Quote)

#89

Hello Paul,

Firstly, congrats on a fantastic skin for the MediaWiki I have been impressed at its sleakness. There are a couple of things in your 3.1 version I was interested in so without sounding very cheeky, I wondered when you were considering releasing.

Waiting in anticipation!

Rob

Comment by Rob — April 24, 2007 @ 4:37 am (Quote)

#90

Hi Paul,

I know your exams must be going on now…Best of Luck of the exams! I have figured out the solution for the queries raised by me in my initial comment, however i am facing some new difficulties especially in uploading file with different formats.

You see i am making a tutorial website, specifically for Flash and Photoshop.

I would like to know how can i (and others with tutorials on similar topics) can upload and embed files with flash extensions (*.swf) in mediawiki? It would be of great help to me. By the way your mediawiki skins rocks!!! Everyone likes it very much.

Regards,
Abhinay

Comment by Abhinay — April 24, 2007 @ 10:24 am (Quote)

#91

Hi again,

I’ve refitted your skin to another site (see link) and I’m trying to hide the Content Actions menu so it looks even more like a real webpage. So I’ve set the font color to white so you only see it when your hoovering over it.

Now my question: How do I remove the vertical lines in between “page-edit-etc”??

Greetz Davinia

Comment by Davinia — April 25, 2007 @ 10:22 am (Quote)

#92

Hi Davinia,

You need to open the gumax.php file and remove the “|”.

Comment by Paul Gu — April 25, 2007 @ 10:39 am (Quote)

#93

Simple enough
I was just looking in the wrong place, Thank you for the quick response

Comment by Davinia — April 25, 2007 @ 10:45 am (Quote)

#94

Hello Paul,

I wanted to thank you for your skin, I use it on our website.(I’ve modified it a bit to fit the site design, I hope you won’t mind)

Thanks!

Comment by silmarien — April 27, 2007 @ 11:53 am (Quote)

#95

Hi Paul

Very impressive skin.

I’ve used it on http://www.bananapages.co.uk and i’m very pleased, however when a user logs out the screen shows a very basic version, not the proper version, what do I need to do?

Chris

Comment by Chris — April 29, 2007 @ 1:36 pm (Quote)

#96

Sorry re post 96

Please look at http://www.bananapages.co.uk/wiki

Chris

Comment by Chris — April 29, 2007 @ 1:37 pm (Quote)

#97

Hi Chris,

Did you set the default skin in LocalSettings.php?

Comment by Paul Gu — April 29, 2007 @ 7:01 pm (Quote)

#98

Paul

Yes, LocalSettings.php has $wgDefaultSkin = ‘gumax’;

Chris

Comment by Chris — April 30, 2007 @ 5:09 am (Quote)

#99

Sorted

It required “s not ‘ ’s

$wgDefaultSkin = “gumax”; not $wgDefaultSkin = ‘gumax’;

Chris

Comment by Chris — May 1, 2007 @ 3:52 am (Quote)

#100

That’s weird.

Comment by Paul Gu — May 1, 2007 @ 8:50 am (Quote)

#101

Hello Paulgu!

I have a Problem with the Search Buttons.
In front of the text on the Searchbuttons is <
and after the text, is >

I don’t know what i could do…

Look at my Website, there you’ll see my problem.

Thank you!
Maybe you can help me.

Comment by Philipp — September 7, 2007 @ 1:22 pm (Quote)

#102

The skin is great!

Love it!

Great work Paul!

Comment by Joeri — September 10, 2007 @ 7:36 am (Quote)

#103

I have the same Problem as Philipp.

My search button is the same like his.

It says: <searcharticles>

Paul can you plz help us?

My mediawiki version is 1.5

Comment by Joeri — September 10, 2007 @ 9:30 am (Quote)

#104

Hello Paul!

I have a Problem with the Search Buttons.
In front of the text on the Searchbuttons is

I don’t know what i could do…

Look at my Website, there you’ll see my problem.

Thank you!
Maybe you can help me.

PLZ HELP ME PAUL!

Comment by Philipp — September 15, 2007 @ 8:14 am (Quote)

#105

I believe it related to the mediawiki version. You can do following in order to solve the problem:

1) look at Monobook.php and find the search code.
2) Open GuMax.php and find the same search code.
3) Try to replace the search code in GuMax.php with Monobook’s.

It should fix the version compatibility.

Comment by Paul Gu — September 15, 2007 @ 9:03 am (Quote)

#106

Hello once again I tried to follow a suggestion you [quote comment="141"]Hi Carsten,

Navigation menu is in the mediawiki. In order to change it, type “MediaWiki:Sidebar” in search field, then edit the page.[/quote]

I tried the above method and this is what I got
“This page provides interface text for the software, and is locked to prevent abuse.

You can view and copy the source of this page:
”
what next?

Comment by Clement Ongera — October 11, 2007 @ 6:31 am (Quote)

#107

i forgot to tell you that i’m using wikimedia 1.11.0 and your skin sgumax 3.1

thanks for the help

Comment by Clement Ongera — October 11, 2007 @ 6:34 am (Quote)

#108

I have the same problem as 107 – its driving me nuts! Any advice greatly appreciated!!!!

Comment by wwalsh — January 19, 2008 @ 2:21 am (Quote)

#109

see my solution to the above on the forum

Comment by wwalsh — January 21, 2008 @ 11:09 am (Quote)

#110

Hi,

Ur new skin verion is cool.. But ill appreacite if u could tell me
the fix u did for the “password error message not seen in IE”
in version 3.1.1, So that i can implement the same in the version 3.1.
B’cos my wiki users prefer the look of version 3.1.

Comment by Sindhu — July 31, 2008 @ 7:08 am (Quote)

#111

Hi,
I devloped one mediawiki site for local users, I used ur skin, it was very nice, i want to modify my sidebar, In main page my side bar option is Knowledge base, after click the knowledge base the remining links will be displayed in sidebar, can u please help me for this, i want to know in where and which code i have to modify for this.

Please help me…

Last 2 days i am working in this mediawiki, so i dont have much time to study this, so please help me.

Comment by Ravindran — September 11, 2008 @ 2:44 am (Quote)

#112

Hi,
In my devlopment area, the user want to add some details, if he add that details that information will be displayed in main page, is this is possible

Comment by Ravindran — September 11, 2008 @ 4:38 am (Quote)

#113

Hi Paul!
I don’t speak englich very well so, i need to be brief…

I embed a .swf in the mi code is:

header.html is the file that really embed the header.swf

But, in my page the swf doesn’t works.

I think it’s a problem of paths… but i put the swf file in every directory of mediawiki and it still doesn’t works…

I really hope ‘u can help me… i’m so frustrated… two days without sleep and nothing works…

Thanks so much!

Comment by Nalleli Falconi — December 11, 2008 @ 6:05 pm (Quote)

#114

Hi Paul,

great skin! thanks for the hard work!

Comment by Hoshi — February 18, 2009 @ 7:31 am (Quote)

#115

It’s professional but printing is no good. How to improve?

Comment by Hilary — November 22, 2009 @ 8:15 pm (Quote)

#116

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