MediaWiki Skins – Problem with making the mediawiki software work after following directions the install would not run

Summary 

Not all versions of skins will work with a given version of mediawiki software.  What I found noted was that each version of mediawiki software has a matching equal version of skin. I could not get Vector skin default download you get when you go to the Vector skin page to work with the v1.35.14 mediawiki software    I had to go to the repostory page and download v1.35 of the Vector skin.

 

Notes 

  1. I could not get skins to work when I went from mediawiki 1.25 to 1.35.14  
  2. Tried several skins – none worked.  Some cause the wiki software to error out and not serve anything
  3. Went and downloaded a v1.35 Vector skin to match the v1.35.14 mediawiki install and it worked.  

Research Links

 

Liberty Default skin of LibreWiki  – Looks so good.  You do not perceive it as mediawiki software which looks rather austere.