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Hello all!

So I recently installed a fresh installation of Mediawiki after my old site provider died, and I went from 1.27 to 1.28, imported all my old files... and ALL of the IF statements seem to be broken now, and aren't behaving in the way they used to. Coding that I did hasn't changed, unless something went weird in the export utility. I'd normally pester my mentor, but, she, unfortunately, is permanently unavailable (before anyone asks, no, there was no falling out & she didn't edit the code just to spite me).

I should also add in that a number of other various commands seem to no longer be working. These include the main page columns commands.

-Karl

Hi Karl,

the if statements you are speaking about most likely are provided by the Extension:ParserFunctions. You can visit the wiki page Special:Version in your wiki to see, if this extension currently is installed. If it already ''was'' installed: What is it that is broken about the conditions?

Doesn't appear to be on there. I guess I'll give it a shot and see if it fixes. Thanks!

Edit: It appears in the file lists when I went to install it, but not on the version page. Huh. Figured it out. It was installed, but not activated. Which is curious, because unless it installed with the mediawiki installation, a ghost did it.

So, good news... and bad news. The IF statements are fixed! Yay, that's good. That's a whole lot of progress. The columns, however, remain non-functional.

-Karl

How do the column commands on the main page look like?

They look like:

<mainpage-leftcolumn-start />

<mainpage-endcolumn />

 <mainpage-rightcolumn-start />

<mainpage-endcolumn />

It's what worked on the old one and on other wikis.

This looks like the code that uses Wikia to place ads on the main page. If that were working for you before, you may need to enable/install the extension that provides that functionality.

And what extension would that be? I didn't handle much of the setup of the previous wiki.