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In our internal wiki we have:

Mediawiki 1.21.2 PHP 5.4.18 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL 5.6.13

For a reason that has stumped our tech genius (no kidding, he really is extremely smart) we can't get the watch / unwatch tab to appear in the default Vector skin. It appears when anyone switches over to Monobook though.

Can someone please tell me what is going on?

Alain

Are you aware that the star icon in Vector is the watch button?

Yes, very much so. I've had the occasion to see that star button / tab on Wikipedia and on other wikis using Mediawiki with the Vector skin. But no matter what our IT genius (and he really is smarter than the average geek) tries that star never appears in our Mediawiki with Vector, while the word watch (or unwatch) appears in Monobook. Any idea why?

Random ideas: Hidden with CSS (MediaWiki-namespace page, CSS file), $wgVectorUseIconWatch says that with your version (1.21) you should see the text there, not the star symbol, played with a hook (template, navigation).

First question:

Is it in the HTML code? Compare to Wikipedia!