[Mediawiki-l] Strategy: Best way to use customized wiki? UserSkin vs. Monobook

[Rob Church]

a. $wgDefaultSkin in LocalSettings.php.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:%24wgDefaultSkin for more details.

b. Remove all skins except that one. Make sure it's a "full" skin,
however, i.e. is correctly designed - see MonoBook.php for how our
skins work.

b(ii). Alternative: Hack SpecialPreferences.php and comment out the
line responsible for saving the user's new skin preference.


Rob Church

On 11/01/06, elucubrator at web.de <elucubrator at web.de> wrote:
> 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 :-(
>
> Thanks for your input
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