Thread:Manual talk:Skin autodiscovery/Backport of MonoBook and Vector to 1.23/reply (2)

The handling of custom compared to build-in skins in MediaWiki 1.23 is flawed for the reason you mentioned: MediaWiki complains that using autodiscovery would be deprecated while at the same time using autodiscovery itself. You will find me having said that this situation should be improved, however, according changes to fix this flaw have never been implemented.

In the meantime half a year has passed and MW 1.23 no longer is the latest release. MW 1.24 in contrast does come with fixed core skins, which do no longer cause autodiscovery warnings. What I personally did was to update my skin for 1.24 and update my installations.

For 1.23 the situation is, as I noted back then, as you now noted as well, bad, but I don't believe now, that MW 1.23 already is old, anyone will come up and fix this.