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.
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Description | Provides a flexible responsive skin using Bootstrap 4 |
Author(s) | Stephan Gambke |
Maintainer(s) | Professional Wiki |
Latest version | 4.3.0 (2023-11-26) |
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 | See below |
Public wikis using | 243 (Ranked 28th) |
Public wikis using as default skin | 195 |
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Chameleon is a highly customizable responsive MediaWiki skin that uses Bootstrap 4.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/thumb/3/31/Chameleon.svg/220px-Chameleon.svg.png)
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 source]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
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Navigation menu
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Language menu
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Using the NavHead layout
Examples
[edit source]- Examples of Chameleon 4 or later
- Bootstrap within MediaWiki Demo Wiki
- Wiki Valley
- Secret Wiki (with custom "layout.xml" and custom components)
- Maps extension wiki
- demo.wiki-valley.com (with a custom layout)
- BetaArchive Wiki
- Marketing United
- 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
- Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte (in German)
- OGD Cockpit
- Dizionario Italiano
- Wikifab
- Physiopedia (the static frontpage is not part of the skin)
- Koch-Wiki (With automatically opening menus.)
For many more examples see Chameleon's page on WikiApiary
See also
[edit source]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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