I've been searching the net for a while now and can't find an explanation for this so apologies if it has already been answered: My MediaWiki version page just has a dash in the field for the version for the 4 skins I have installed and the one extension I have installed SpamBlacklist. Is there a reason/fix for this? It bothers me because I assume there is something bigger going on that is causing it that should probably be resolved. I'm on version 1.25.1 of MediaWiki. Thanks for your time!
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Since MediaWiki 1.25, it depends from where the information is taken:
- If the skin has a skin.json file or if the extension has a extension.json file, then the version information is taken from the key "version" from inside that file. Meaning: You can add it there, e.g. below the line with the "author" information and it will display:
"version":"1.25",
- If no skin.json/extension.json file is present, then the version information is taken from the array $wgExtensionCredits in the central skin file/extension file.
SpamBlacklist and the skins do have such a skin.son/extension.json file.
For the skins coming with MediaWiki 1.25 I can confirm that you have that problem, because the "version" information is just missing. You might want to report that to Phabricator so that it can be added.