Mediawiki
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- Setting up a new skin
- Skins live in the
skins
subdirectory of a mediawiki installation.
Skins consist of:
- A PHP file defining the skin class, normally called skinName
.php
- A dependency file, typically called skinName
.deps.php
- A directory, normally called skinName, containing style sheets and images (e.g. page background graphics and the like).
- skinName represents the name of the skin. Somewhat confusingly, the name is capitalised in the PHP code files, but the directory name normally is all lowercase.
- The default skin can be set using the
$wgDefaultSkin
variable inLocalSettings.php
As an example, this wiki uses a slight variation of the
monobook
skin. - Skins live in the
- allow editing of talk pages, but disable other page editing (outdated, the
isSysop
method no longer exists)