Extension:Kameleoon
 Release status: stable |
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| Implementation | MyWiki | ||
| Description | Kameleoon allows you to easily customize your wiki's design: change colors or fonts; add gradients, rounded corners to your template. Instantly! | ||
| Author(s) | Vincent Bernardi | ||
| Last version | 1.1 (September 24rd, 2010) | ||
| MediaWiki | 1.16.0 | ||
| PHP | 5.3 | ||
| License | GNU General Public License, version 2 | ||
| Download | http://static.kameleoon.com/downloads/kameleoon-mediawiki-extension-1.1.zip | ||
| Example | http://images.kameleoon.com/site/mediawiki-green.png | ||
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[edit] What can this extension do?
You've installed MediaWiki, and have a working wiki. Great! Now the only thing that remains to be done is choosing a custom style (appearance) for your wiki. Usually, one just installs a skin.
Kameleoon allows you to do more than that; with it, you can redecorate your wiki yourself using a graphical interface appearing directly over your MediaWiki wiki. You don't need to know HTML or CSS; we have a lot of predefined cool effects to help you get started. See the screenshots below to see what can be created with Kameleoon.
Note that you still need a base MediaWiki skin in order to define your layout (placement of elements on the page), as Kameleoon mostly deals with decorations (styling of elements). Thus Kameleoon is an add-on to an existing skin, although you can also totally redesign your wiki from scratch if you wish to do so. If you don't want to start from a specific skin, we suggest that you use the Kameleoon skin which is like the default MediaWiki skin but enhanced for optimal Kameleoon performance.
[edit] Usage
[edit] Download instructions
Download this file, unzip it, and place the resulting folder in $IP/extensions/. Note: $IP stands for the root directory of your MediaWiki installation, the same directory that holds LocalSettings.php.
[edit] Installation
To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:
$wgKameleoonSiteCode = "REPLACEME"; require_once("$IP/extensions/kameleoon/kameleoon.php");
where REPLACEME should be replaced by the Site Code you were given when registering your account *and your site* on the Kameleoon web site.
[edit] Configuration parameters
$wgKameleoonSiteCode is your siteCode as provided by the Kameleoon web site. It serves to identify your wiki to the Kameleoon platform.
[edit] User rights
The current usage of Kameleoon is to allow only the person which registered the account on the Kameleoon web site to redesign the wiki. The login and password provided when you register are compulsory to edit your wiki with Kameleoon.
