Extension:SkinPerNamespace

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SkinPerNamespace Release status: beta
Implementation	User interface
Description	allows a per-namespace skin
Author(s)	IAlexTalk
Last Version	2009-04-25
MediaWiki	1.13.0
License	GPLv2 or higher
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Parameters $wgSkinPerNamespace, $wgSkinPerNamespaceOverrideLoggedIn
Hooks used BeforePageDisplay
check usage (experimental)

This extension allow to specify a per-namespace skin that can be configured in $wgSkinPerNamespace, but this will also override users preferences, to avoid this you can set $wgSkinPerNamespaceOverrideLoggedIn to false.

[edit] Installation

1. Download the latest snapshot from Special:ExtensionDistributor/SkinPerNamespace.
2. Extract it and put the SkinPerNamespace directory in the extensions directory of your MediaWiki installation.
3. Edit LocalSettings.php and add the following line:

    require_once( "$IP/extensions/SkinPerNamespace/SkinPerNamespace.php" );
   

[edit] Configuration

You can configure this extension with to variables :

• $wgSkinPerNamespace: array mapping namespaces index (i.e. namespaces numbers and not names) to a skin name. Use all lower case name for skin, like monobook, modern, ... otherwise it simply won't work. Example:

$wgSkinPerNamespace[NS_TALK] = "modern";
$wgSkinPerNamespace[NS_PROJECT] = "cologneblue";

Note: you can find the constants in includes/Defines.php.

• $wgSkinPerSpecialPage: skins for special pages, mapping canonical name (see SpecialPage::$mList in SpecialPage.php) to skin. This overrides $wgSkinPerNamespace[NS_SPECIAL]. Example:

$wgSkinPerSpecialPage['Search'] = "modern";
$wgSkinPerSpecialPage['Recentchanges'] = "chick";

• $wgSkinPerNamespaceOverrideLoggedIn, if set to true (default value), it will also override the the skin for logged in users, to avoid this you can set it to false and $wgSkinPerNamespace will only apply to anonymous users.

[edit] See also

• $wgDefaultSkin: default skin to use