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gesinn-it/chameleon-skin
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A highly flexible MediaWiki skin using Twitter Bootstrap 3

1.1.4(11y ago)0309GPL-3.0+PHPPHP >=5.3.2

Since Oct 11Pushed 10y ago2 watchersCompare

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Chameleon skin
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[](#chameleon-skin)

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The [Chameleon skin](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Chameleon) uses [Twitter's Bootstrap 3](http://getbootstrap.com/) to provide a customizable MediaWiki skin.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 5.3.2 or later
- MediaWiki 1.22 or later
- [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/)

Further required software packages will be installed automatically.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

1. On a command line go to your MediaWiki installation directory
2. If necessary (on MediaWiki up to 1.23) copy the file `composer.json.example`to `composer.json`
3. With Composer installed, run `composer require "mediawiki/chameleon-skin:~1.0"`
4. To set Chameleon as the default skin, open `LocalSettings.php` in an editor, find `$wgDefaultSkin` and amend it: `$wgDefaultSkin='chameleon';`
5. **Done:** Navigate to *Special:Version* on your wiki to verify that the skin is successfully installed.

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

See the [Chameleon documentation](docs/index.md).

It may also be worthwhile to have a look at the [Chameleon site on MediaWiki](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Chameleon) and the related [talk page](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin_talk:Chameleon)

License
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[](#license)

You can use the Chameleon skin under the [GNU General Public License, version 3](https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) (or any later version).

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 62% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 62.8% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~36 days

Recently: every ~50 days

Total

7

Last Release

4052d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/94453213?v=4)[gesinn.it GmbH & Co. KG](/maintainers/gesinn-it)[@gesinn-it](https://github.com/gesinn-it)

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Top Contributors

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Tags

mediawikitwitterbootstrapwikiskin

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