Last modified: 2012-04-12 13:54:07 UTC
Recently we attempted to change all user skin preferences to vector with the command: php userOptions.php skin --old monobook --new vector It appeared to run successfully (with messages like "Setting skin for <user> from 'monobook' to 'vector'): OK") but our preferences had in fact not been changed, and when we ran "php userOptions.php skin --usage" we got: Usage for <skin> (default: 'vector'): 1 user(s): 'modern' Done. whereas before when we ran it we a breakdown of skin usage for our users. Following a direct modification of the database to update user skin preferences, running the command "php userOptions.php skin --usage" shows nothing but "Done."
Setting a preference to a global default simply removes it from database, so what you're seeing in response to php userOptions.php skin --usage is normal. Are you saying that users didn't observe a change in their preferences? (Note that user objects may be cached and although a change in prefrerences should result in cache invalidation, all kinds of glitches can happen).
Have you tried setting $wgDefaultSkin = 'vector'; yet?
We'd set the $wgDefaultSkin = 'vector', but are unable to replicate the original bug (the vector skin is enabled just fine according to our users). It's possible there was an unrelated issue (maybe a syntax error in LocalSettings when we first set the new default skin). Is there somewhere in the documentation I or someone can make a note that "php userOptions.php skin --usage" will not display the skin preference if it's set to the default, since that's somewhat unintuitive behavior? Maybe it isn't that big of an issue. Thanks for the help!
> syntax error in LocalSettings ...always result in wiki being completely unusable. > Is there somewhere in the documentation That's bug 1 :/
