Topic on Manual talk:$wgLogos

I updated from an old 1.31 Mediawiki to 1.39. My wiki logo is gone and I have not the slightest idea how to bring it back, because this manual goes over my noob head. I tried svg, it doesnt work. I tried icon, it doesnt work. And I don't understand what they want from me with this resize and nominally stuff.

I just want a single path for my logo, which is not required to be resizeable, has no tagline, no wordmark or other fancy things. This was once a simple function, who made it so complicated? And why is there no option for those, who just want to slap a logo in their wiki?

Why was $wgLogo decapitated and not just made a fallback?

Why was $wgLogo decapitated and not just made a fallback?

It is. If you do not set $wgLogos to anything, the wiki software will use the value of $wgLogo. However, if you have $wgLogos set, which the installer does, you'll get that value instead. However, to just simply set it the way you probably want, replace the entry in LocalSettings.php with something like this:

$wgLogos = [
    '1x' => "$wgResourceBasePath/myCustomLogo.png",
];

(This is for if your wiki's logo is stored directly in the root directory of your copy of MediaWiki, and is called myCustomLogo.png.)