Template:Skin

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This template should be added to all skin pages on this wiki (but only the main page) to display an information box and categorise the skin.

Content parameters
This section describes parameters that govern infobox content. For help with and other control parameters, please see Control parameters. . It will be used later for localising the name. status   current release status  One of:


 *  - broken - do not use this skin
 *  - early stages of development, may change drastically
 *  - stable but not fully tested
 *  - stable version
 *  - unmaintained - previously claimed to be stable, now unmaintained
 *  - default

If the status is anything other than the above, it will be ignored and the default value of 'Unknown' will be displayed in the template instead.

hook1 hook2 hook3 hook4 ... hook90  name of each hook used by the extension  Entering values in this field is a good way to get exposure for your extension and help other developers. Each documented hook will automatically add the extension to a category listing extensions that use that hook. This category is autolinked to each hook page so that programmers can easily find examples of extensions that use a particular hook.

For built-in hooks:


 * use the hook name alone. Please see  for values (but omit introductory '/').

For custom hooks defined by extensions:


 * use extensionName/hookName . For a partial list of custom hooks, see Extension hook registry.

For multiple hooks, assign the first hook to hook1, the second to hook2 and so on. newhook1 newhook2 newhook3 newhook4 ... newhook90 name of each hook provided by the extension

You might also want to add the hooks to Extension hook registry. username The author's username on MediaWiki.org (if they have one). May be omitted, but if present it will be used to link to the author's user & user_talk page. It should be provided without namespace and without s.  The skin author's name, if different from their MediaWiki.org username. Free text. If omitted then the ' username ' field will be used (if present). description  short description  screenshot or logo of skin. It should be provided without namespace and without s.  facultative, size of the image (default size is 220px) last version date of the last update compatibility policy ( accepted values are  master ,  rel  and  ltsrel  ). required version of MediaWiki required version of PHP license(s) governing use of this skin, e.g. GPL download   link to the download : Use WikimediaDownloadSkin or GithubDownload. external link to the readme file external link to the changelog file available parameters for LocalSettings.php example, website or screenshot of working skin compatibility chart Bugzilla MediaWiki skin component name

Control parameters
because this isn't an actual skin page and we don't want to add this page to any categories on account of it.

If this is left blank, this template will add the host page to and to one or more additional categories, depending on the values assigned to the Content parameters. subpage; it is not in the Skin: namespace; or if suppressed by 'templatemode=nocats'

Categories added
This template will automatically add the pages it is used on to the Category:All skins category.

In addition, it will categorise the page based on the value of the status parameter:


 * unstable: Category:Unstable skins
 * experimental: Category:Experimental skins
 * stable: Category:Stable skins
 * beta: Category:Beta status skins
 * unmaintained: Category:Unmaintained skins
 * otherwise: Category:Skins with unknown status

Existing skin pages
If you want to add the infobox to an existing page, copy and paste the code at the top of this page.

Create a new skin page
If you want to create a new skin page, enter the name below and click the button. A new page will be created with the infobox template already in place.

Enhancing this template
If you would like to improve on this template, thanks! This is a complicated template so here is some help along the way:

In addition, Template:Skin/Sample stores the boiler plate that is preloaded into newly created pages and contains some basic documentation on how to fill in the template parameters. It needs to be kept in sync with the documentation.

The Create skin button
To improve the create skin button behavior:
 * Template:Skin/Sample: The boilerplate skin that is preloaded into newly-created pages.
 * Template:Skin/CreateSkinInputBox: An input box that can be inserted wherever you want users to easily create skins. For documentation on the  tag, please see Extension:InputBox.
 * Skin:TheSkin: - Defines a placeholder, in case a user accidentally hits the create button without changing the skin name.

Infobox parameters
In general:
 * To make this template easy to use, each label in the infobox is linked to documentation on the template parameter(s) it displays. If you add a parameter, please be sure to also add it to the content parameter documentation and link its label to that documentation.

Test cases
See if the following pages are still ok, after editing this template.
 * Skin:Vector
 * Template:Skin

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