To answer one of your questions, you can blacklist skins in an array like so:
In LocalSettings - $wgSkipSkins = array(simple, monobook, chick,etc);
Include all the skin names, except for the one you want as the default, then that skin will be used when the wiki is opened, and will be the only slection available under Preferences->Skins
Ryan
From: elucubrator@web.de Reply-To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Strategy: Best way to use customized wiki? UserSkinvs. Monobook Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:28:07 +0100
thank you for taking the time - i try to be precise
Situation: a) our task is to set up new wikis all the time which should be based on an individual design b) my task is to provide the admins with a custom design c) we have to handle all the future upgrades of wikimedia on all those wikis
Problem: After initial fiddling with the monobook and cross browser problems i came up with a design on a working wiki. Now the Admins need a "package" from me for further installations of new wikis. They have to support those wikis and therefore they need to update/upgrade all those wikis. We need the best strategy to create a custom design under this point of view.
Theory: Obviously it is easier to re-install a user skin than to sync all your individual changes with base design after an regular upgrade of the wiki software (which I will have to do on a growing number of wikis regularly)
Question: I need to make sure, every user sees the customized design immediately. a) Can I (and how do I) make a skin the default view for the wiki and b) prevent the user from changing it
What I check so far: a) I can completely disable user skins. b) many people just do their changes on the monobook etc. - but how do you handle the regular upgrades best then? c) I understand I need to do a lot of cross browser compatibility fiddling :-(
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