Mediawiki Skins

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You can change the Logo of your wiki by altering the $wgLogo variable in /includes/DefaultSettings.php to the name of the image you want to use as a logo.

Please note that this logo should be placed in the /skins/common/images/ folder.

Create MediaWiki Skin

You can create a skin all by yourself by following the steps provided below:

• Go to the /skins folder within your Mediawiki directory;
• Copy the /monobook directory and rename it with the name of your skin, for example:

  mywikiskin;

• Copy the MonoBook.php file and rename it with the name of your skin, for example:

  MyWikiSkin.php;

• Edit MyWikiSkin.php and change the class name to SkinMyWikiSkin, for example:

  class SkinMyWikiSkin extends SkinTemplate;

• In MyWikiSkin.php, change make the other class to have your skin name together with the word Template, for example:

  class MyWikiSkinTemplate extends QuickTemplate;

• In MyWikiSkin.php, make $this->skinname to have a string value of your skin name, for example:

  'mywikiskin';

• In MyWikiSkin.php, make $this->template to have a string value of your skin name properly capitalised with the word Template, for example:

  'MyWikiSkinTemplate';

• In MyWikiSkin.php find the following lines and replace monobook with mywikiskin in the path settings for the CSS files:

  $out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/main.css', 'screen' );
  $out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/IE50Fixes.css', 'screen', 'lt IE 5.5000' );
  $out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/IE55Fixes.css', 'screen', 'IE 5.5000' );
  $out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/IE60Fixes.css', 'screen', 'IE 6' );
  $out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/IE70Fixes.css', 'screen', 'IE 7' );
  $out->addStyle( 'mywikiskin/rtl.css', 'screen', '', 'rtl' );

• In your /mywikiskin directory edit the image and CSS files;
• Edit and customise MyWikiSkin.php as you please;
• In LocalSettings.php set

  $wgDefaultSkin = 'mywikiskin'

You can now enjoy the new skin you have prepared!