Skin:Chameleon
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The Professional Wiki team maintains this skin professionally.
Professional Wiki provides official support for MediaWiki LTS releases only. It may work with other MediaWiki releases.
 Release status: stable |
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| Description | Provides a flexible responsive skin using Bootstrap 4 |
| Author(s) | Stephan Gambke |
| Maintainer(s) | Professional Wiki |
| Latest version | 4.4.2 (2024-10-09) |
| Compatibility policy | Follows the MediaWiki version lifecycle. Master is not backwards compatible. |
| MediaWiki | 1.35+ |
| Composer | mediawiki/chameleon-skin |
| License | GNU General Public License 3.0 or later |
| Download | GitHub: README on GitHub Changelog on GitHub |
| Example | Bootstrap for MediaWiki |
| Public wikis using | 243 (Ranked 28th) |
| Public wikis using as default skin | 195 |
| Translate the Chameleon skin if it is available at translatewiki.net | |
Chameleon is a highly customizable responsive MediaWiki skin that uses Bootstrap 4.
It currently provides five different layouts to choose from. Each layout is defined in an XML file and as such easily adaptable to your needs.
Documentation
[edit]The documentation is available on GitHub:
- Installation, Update, De-Installation
- Customization
- Release Notes
- Testing
- How to contribute
- Credits
- Contact
Commercial support is available via Professional Wiki, the maintainer of Chameleon.
Screenshots
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Whole page in standard layout -
Navigation menu -
Language menu -
Using the NavHead layout
Examples
[edit]- Examples of Chameleon 4 or later
- Bootstrap within MediaWiki Demo Wiki
- Dizionario Italiano
- Wiki Valley
- Secret Wiki (with custom "layout.xml" and custom components)
- Koch-Wiki (With automatically opening menus.)
- Maps extension wiki
- demo.wiki-valley.com (with a custom layout)
- BetaArchive Wiki
- Marketing United
- OGD Cockpit
- The MaRDI Portal
- Le Wiki Jean-Michel (with a custom layout sjm.xml — based on stickyhead.xml)
- Examples of Chameleon 3
- Examples of Chameleon 1 or 2
- Semantic-MediaWiki.org
- semantic.wiki
- Wikifab
- Physiopedia (the static frontpage is not part of the skin)
For many more examples see Chameleon's page on WikiApiary
See also
[edit]Other skins and extensions related to the Bootstrap framework:
- Skins based on Bootstrap - Overview of skins based on the Bootstrap framework
- Extension:Bootstrap - Provides the Bootstrap framework to MediaWiki
- Extension:BootstrapComponents - Provides further components to the Bootstrap framework for MediaWiki
- Other
- Bootstrap for MediaWiki wiki — Examples and Demos
- Enhance Your MediaWiki with Bootstrap — Blog post about improving your wiki by integrating it with Bootstrap and its components; published January 20, 2024
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