I’ve just updated the wiki. Sorry for the long downtime – I am still not sure about what actually happened.

Anyway, the wiki is now running 1.15.1 and the upgrade was rather easy. I haven’t exactly followed the upgrade docs, but I think I prefer to not have the message about re-installing show on the main site.

So, what I did was:

• Upload the new version into a new folder
• Set the main site to read-only; this is done by adding a line $wgReadOnly = "Down for maintenance."; to LocalSettings.php.
• Backup the database.
• Run the installer from the uploaded new version
• Once complete, move the new LocalSettings.php as required.
• Edit again to change the var $wgScriptPath to reflect the path of the live site (empty string)
• Edit/configure whatever else needs to be done
• Rename the current wiki folder to wiki.old
• Rename the uploaded new version from mediawiki-1.15.1 to wiki

While at it I also installed a new extension to handle the Google Analytics tracker code and the site is now using a custom skin. This is currently just an empty skin extending monobook, but now the wiki is prepared for a re-skinning once the main site has been updated with the new design.

Should there be any issues please let me know.

I finally managed to repair the database and get the wiki running again. Should there be still issues, please let me know.

I just realized that the wiki still claims that there aren’t any themes available for ZenMagick. That is, of course, not true!

I’ve updated the wiki’s theme repository page with some information and links to the demo store for each theme. Seing that themes/templates are a popular search topic, I hope that this helps spread the word…

I’ve updated the wiki with a couple new pages. If you always wanted to know about ZenMagick class loading that’s your chance to catch up!

I figured that rather than post stuff here and then convert the posts to wiki articles, I rather create the articles on the wiki and then mention them here.Hopefully that will save me some time and increase then number of new articles on the wiki…

Here goes:

• Catalog Manager
• HowTo: Override a core class
• HowTo: Add a new banner group set