Mediawiki

Customising Mediawikis

• 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 in LocalSettings.php
  As an example, this wiki uses a slight variation of the monobook skin.
• allow editing of talk pages, but disable other page editing (outdated, the isSysop method no longer exists)