skins/README

   1 Skins, such as the default skin Vector, are distributed separately. Drop them
   2 into this directory and enable as per the skin's installation instructions.
   3
   4 You can find a list of available skins at
   5 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:All_skins>,
   6 and more information about installing and configuring skins at
   7 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_configuration>.
   8
   9 If you are a developer, you might want to fetch the skin tree in another
  10 directory and make a symbolic link:
  11
  12  mediawiki/skins$ ln -s ../../skins-trunk/FooBar
  13
  14 The default skin Vector can be installed by cloning from Git:
  15     git clone https://git.wikimedia.org/git/mediawiki/skins/Vector.git
  16
  17 Other skins are also available:
  18     https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/?filter=mediawiki%252Fskins%252F
  19     https://git.wikimedia.org/project/mediawiki
  20
  21
  22 Please note that under POSIX systems (Linux...), parent of a symbolic path
  23 refers to the link source, NOT to the target! You should check the env
  24 variable MW_INSTALL_PATH in case the extension is not in the default location.
  25
  26 The following code snippet lets you override the default path:
  27
  28  $IP = getenv( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH' );
  29  if( $IP === false ) {
  30         $IP = __DIR__ . '/../..';
  31  }
  32  require_once "$IP/maintenance/Maintenance.php"; // a MediaWiki core file