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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Chameleon Release status: stable
Description	Provides a flexible responsive skin using Bootstrap 4
Author(s)	Stephan Gambke
Maintainer(s)	Professional Wiki
Latest version	5.0.1 (2025-03-30)
Compatibility policy	Follows the MediaWiki version lifecycle. Master is not backwards compatible.
MediaWiki	1.39+
PHP	8.0+
Composer	mediawiki/chameleon-skin
License	GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history README on GitHub Changelog on GitHub
Example	Bootstrap for MediaWiki
Hooks used LocalisationCacheRecache SetupAfterCache
Hooks provided ChameleonSkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec ChameleonNavbarHorizontalPersonalToolsLinkText
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.

Chameleon logo

It currently provides five different layouts to choose from. Each layout is defined in an XML file and is easily adaptable to your needs.

Documentation

The documentation is available on GitHub:

1. Installation, Update, De-Installation
2. Customization
   • Layout of page elements
   • Changing styles: Fonts, Colors, Padding etc.
   • Migrating from Chameleon 1.x
3. Release Notes
4. Testing
5. How to contribute
6. Credits
7. Contact

Commercial support is available via Professional Wiki, the maintainer of Chameleon.

Screenshots

• 
  Whole page in standard layout
• 
  Navigation menu
• 
  Language menu
• 
  Using the NavHead layout

Examples

Examples of Chameleon 4 or later

• Bootstrap within MediaWiki Demo Wiki
• Dizionario Italiano
• Wiki Valley
• Secret Wiki (with custom "layout.xml" and custom components)
• Koch-Wiki (With automatically opening menus.)
• Maps extension wiki
• demo.wiki-valley.com (with a custom layout)
• BetaArchive Wiki
• Marketing United
• OGD Cockpit
• The MaRDI Portal
• Le Wiki Jean-Michel (with a custom layout sjm.xml — based on stickyhead.xml)

Examples of Chameleon 3

• Rhizome ArtBase

Examples of Chameleon 1 or 2

• Semantic-MediaWiki.org
• semantic.wiki
• Wikifab
• Physiopedia (the static frontpage is not part of the skin)

For many more examples see Chameleon's page on WikiApiary

See also

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