I have a Wiki site installation at my Homelab server. I tried to keep it updated every time MediaWiki has a new release.
Last week, I upgraded my Wiki from 1.43.1 to 1.44.0. Look at it.
There is a Deprecation notice on top of every page.
<body class="skin-vector-legacy mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-0 ns-subject mw-editable page-Main_Page rootpage-Main_Page skin-vector action-view"><br /> <b>Deprecated</b>: Use of MediaWiki\Skin\Skin::appendSpecialPagesLinkIfAbsent was deprecated in MediaWiki 1.44. [Called from MediaWiki\Skin\Skin::buildSidebar in /home/davidyin/gthree.win/wiki/includes/skins/Skin.php at line 1639] in <b>/home/davidyin/gthree.win/wiki/includes/debug/MWDebug.php</b> on line <b>386</b><br /> <div id="mw-page-base" class="noprint"></div>
I waited a week for the official solution. Today, I upgraded it to v1.44.2. Still has the same problem.
I conducted extensive research on Google and AI conversations. I found the true solution in a Reddit post.
My wiki URL is https://gthree.win/wiki/
So, enter the URL to edit the sidebar https://gthree.win/wiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar
Then add the code **specialpages-url|specialpages to the it.
Save it. Load the wiki page on Firefox. The system is displayed normally.





works for me, thank you for publishing the solution. There’s nothing helpful on mediawiki.org itself.
I am happy that it helps.