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Skin:Monaco

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Release status: stable
Description Port of the old Fandom skin.
Latest version 2.8.2 (2024-09-29)
MediaWiki 1.39+
License GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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Parameters
  • $wgMonacoAllowUseTheme
  • $wgMonacoTheme
  • $wgMonacoDynamicCreateOverride
  • $wgMonacoUseMoreButton
  • $wgMonacoUseSitenoticeIsland
  • $wgMonacoUseMasthead
  • $wgMonacoCompactSpecialPages
  • $wgMonacoBiggestCategoriesBlacklist
  • $wgMonacoEnablePaypal
  • $wgMonacoPaypalID
  • $wgMonacoEnablePatreon
  • $wgMonacoPatreonURL
  • $wgMonacoSearchDefaultFulltext
  • $wgMonacoSpecialPagesRequiredLogin
Hooks used
Hooks provided
Public wikis using 1,499 (Ranked 15th)
Public wikis using as default skin 216
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Monaco is a skin originally developed by Fandom. The skin is currently maintained and provided by Universal Omega, which is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 until 1.39 and 1.41 .

A fork compatible with MediaWiki 1.41 is also provided by jdlrobson.

Installation

To install, install Monaco into a Monaco/ folder in your skins/ folder. From the command line you can do this by cd'ing to your skins/ folder inside your MediaWiki installation and running git clone git://github.com/Universal-Omega/Monaco.git Monaco.

Once you have done that, add wfLoadSkin( 'Monaco' ); to your LocalSettings.php.

Configuration

General

Deactivate selection of themes in the users preferences.

$wgMonacoAllowUseTheme = false;

Select the default theme for the wiki.

$wgMonacoTheme = "the_owners_preferred_theme";

Default value is "sapphire".

Paypal

Enable Paypal-Button:

$wgMonacoEnablePaypal = true;

Set Paypal ID:

$wgMonacoPaypalID = "owners personal Paypal ID code";

Patreon

Enable Patreon-Button:

$wgMonacoEnablePatreon = true;

Set Patreon-URL:

$wgMonacoPatreonURL = "https://www.patreon.com/owners_patreon_page";

Help

This is a ShoutWiki help page, hosted at the ShoutWiki Hub.

The themes currently only work with the forks for REL1_25, REL1_27, REL1_31, REL1_35, REL1_39 and REL1_41.

Layout

Monaco has a large area for the wiki's logo with the Sidebar with expanding lists under that. The sidebar can link to anywhere on the wiki or even off the wiki. In the sidebar is usually links to recent changes, special pages, upload file, random page and occasionally help pages.

Under the sidebar is a community box that has links to your user page and talk page as well as showing the latest edits on the wiki.

Links along the top right are to your user page, talk page and watchlist. The more dropdown box can lead to your contributions and preferences. The link to log out is also here.

On the top left is a link to the ShoutWiki Hub and wiki categories on the hub.

How to change the skin

There are numerous pages to edit different sections of the Monaco skin:

Themes

Monaco offers lots of complete themes that you can use:

  • Sapphire — The “standard” white and blue Monaco.
  • Beach — A theme using light blue and brown.
  • Brick — A theme using brown and darkred.
  • Carbon — This theme uses dark grey and black.
  • Forest — A theme inspired by nature using, among others, different colors of green.
  • Gaming — This theme uses dark blue and yellow.
  • Jade — Using the normal white, but with green instead of blue.
  • Moonlight — Using light and darker colors of blue, together with a star and moonlight background.
  • Obsession — This theme uses colors such as black and dark red, giving this theme a darker look and feel.
  • Pink — A nice, bright and pink theme.
  • Ruby — Using white the normal white, but red instead of blue.
  • Sky — Using the normal white for the content area, with light blue instead of blue and a light blue background.
  • Slate — This theme uses light grey and yellow.
  • Smoke — Using the normal white, with yellow instead of blue.
  • Spring — A theme using light green and light pink.

Use the skin

See also

Legacy

  1. The original skin by Dantman can be downloaded here.
  2. A variation of the Monaco skin with some compatibility fixes for the WikiEditor extension and Monobook/Vector styled buttons can be found here. Seems that support MediaWiki version until 1.24 .
  3. A fork supporting MediaWiki versions 1.24 to 1.29 officially, with verified support for 1.30+ in the works, is maintained by James Haley. Doom Wiki still running with MediaWiki version 1.27 uses this fork. It's new additions:
    • A new Widgets framework which cooperates with Gadgets to allow sidebar content to be defined through the MediaWiki frontend.
    • Special support for FlaggedRevs and MobileFrontend when they are installed.
    • Wiki copyright notice is displayed in the footer of every page as with WikiMedia-maintained skins.
    • Numerous bug fixes to stylesheets, JavaScript, and PHP HTML generation.
  4. Another fork supporting MediaWiki versions 1.31 to 1.32 is provided by Beleggrodion. Roger Meier says he has added these features:
    • First Version that support MediaWiki version 1.31 , but is not tested
    • Implementation of extending the Sidebar Menu with User and Group Sidebar Elements like Extension DynamicSidebar
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