In the previous chapters, we have covered the topics that helped us in making our MediaWiki skin ready to deploy across the wiki. You can not use use your new skin on the wiki, but can also share your creation with members of the MediaWiki community. In this chapter, we will cover the following:
The licensing options you could use with your skin
Packaging your MediaWiki skin for use by others
Deploying your skin on your own wiki
We have briefly covered how to deploy your MediaWiki skin across your wiki in Chapter 2. But even if you used your wiki's new skin as your user account's preferred skin, you can still change the the wiki's settings so that all of your wiki's visitors will be able to use it.
Simply set $wgDefaultSkin
variable in the LocalSettings.php
file to the name of your skin. To make the JazzMeet skin as the default skin for your wiki, replace $wgDefaultSkin = 'monobook'
with $wgDefaultSkin = 'jazzmeet'
. Remember...