Skin:Minerva Neue
| Minerva Neue (Minerva) Release status: stable |
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| MediaWiki | 1.30+ |
| License | GPL-2.0+ |
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| Depends on Extension:MobileFrontend | |
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Minerva is the skin that serves mobile traffic for Wikimedia projects across the world. Compared to other skins e.g. Vector it provides a much more simplistic user interface and is much more aggressive about optimising for performance so that it can cater for mobile users.
It is optimised for use with MobileFrontend as the wgMFDefaultSkinClass and at the time of writing this is a hard dependency.
Contents
Installation[edit]
- Download and install the MobileFrontend extension.
- Download and place the file(s) in a directory called
MinervaNeuein yourskins/folder. - Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:
wfLoadSkin( 'MinervaNeue' );
$wgDefaultSkin = 'minerva';
Done - Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the skin is successfully installed.
To users running MediaWiki 1.24 or earlier:
The instructions above describe the new way of installing skins using wfLoadSkin(), since MediaWiki 1.25. If you need to install this skin in earlier versions, instead of wfLoadSkin( 'MinervaNeue' );, you need to use:
require_once "$IP/skins/MinervaNeue/MinervaNeue.php";
(To run an skin on an earlier release, you may need to download the version of it tagged for that release from Special:SkinDistributor.)
- Note: Setting
$wgDefaultSkin = 'minerva'will make Minerva your default skin even in Desktop view. Ignore this line and instead use$wgMFDefaultSkinClass = "SkinMinerva";if you want only MobileFrontend to use the Minerva skin.
Make sure the call to wfLoadSkin is installed after the call to wfLoadExtension.
Desktop vs mobile modes[edit]
MobileFrontend provides additional capabilities that are not available in MediaWiki core. You can compare desktop vs mobile mode.
When operating in mobile mode the following features are available:
- Sections can be collapsed and expanded
- The menu contains different options e.g Special:Preferences is available on desktop
- MediaWiki:Mobile.css (for mobile mode) or MediaWiki:Common.css (for desktop mode) will be loaded.
- Various pages are optimised for mobile e.g. Special:Watchlist (compare desktop vs mobile)
The desktop mode of the site is experimental. If you see a bug, patches are appreciated.
When operating in desktop mode there are various issues that we are working towards fixing. Your patches and help are welcomed.
Questions and answers[edit]
If you have a question not answered by the page - please feel free to use the talk page to raise them.
Why does it depend on MobileFrontend?[edit]
We're working to fix this and have a whole project dedicated to it. Your patches and help are welcomed.
| This skin is being used on one or more Wikimedia projects. This probably means that the skin is stable and works well enough to be used by such high-traffic websites. Look for this skin's name in Wikimedia's CommonSettings.php and InitialiseSettings.php configuration files to see where it's installed. A full list of the skins installed on a particular wiki can be seen on the wiki's Special:Version page. |