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# BETA!
This skin is a fork of and complete rework of the layout of the Foreground skin.
# MediaWiki Pivot Skin
[MediaWiki](http://www.mediawiki.org) skin that focuses on mobile first, but *pivots* to desktop view elegantly. Supports responsive layouts and has classes predefined for [Semantic MediaWiki](http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki). Built on the [Zurb Foundation 5](http://foundation.zurb.com) CSS framework.
## Download
First, copy the Pivot source files into your MediaWiki skins directory (see [skinning](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning) for general information on MediaWiki skins). You can either download the files and extract them from:
https://github.com/hutchy68/pivot/archive/master.zip
You should extract that into a folder named `pivot` in your `skins` directory.
Alternatively, you can use git to clone the repository, which makes it very easy to update the code, using:
git clone https://github.com/hutchy68/pivot.git
After that, you can issue `git pull` to update the code at anytime.
## Setup
Once the skin is in place add the following line to your `LocalSettings.php` file.
require_once "$IP/skins/pivot/pivot.php";
This will activate Pivot in your installation. At this point you can select it as a user skin in your user preferences.
To activate Pivot for all users and anonymous visitors, you need to set the `$wgDefaultSkin` variable and set it to `pivot`.
$wgDefaultSkin = "pivot";
## Configuration (*not all are usable, BETA*)
Use following features in `LocalSettings.php` to change the behavior.
- `showActionsForAnon => true` displays page actions for non-logged-in visitors.
- `NavWrapperType => 'divonly'`: only a div with id `navwrapper` will be created. `'0'` - no div will be created (old behavior), other values will be used as class.
- `showHelpUnderTools => true` a Link to "Help" will be created under "Tools".
- `showRecentChangesUnderTools => true` a Link to "recent changes" will be created under "Tools".
- `IeEdgeCode => 1` will produce a meta tag with "X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge", `2` will sent a header, `0` nothing will be done
These are the default values:
$wgPivotFeatures = array(
'showActionsForAnon' => true,
'NavWrapperType' => 'divonly',
'showHelpUnderTools' => true,
'showRecentChangesUnderTools' => true,
'IeEdgeCode' => 1
);
### Usage of NavWrapperType
With a setting like:
'NavWrapperType' => 'divonly'
and the created div called `navwrapper` anonymous visitors can change the setting of navbar (fixed or sticky) by
User-Script (Firefox-extensions like greasemonkey or scriptish), users can take a gadget or their JavaScript, CSS ... :
$('#navwrapper').addClass('sticky');
Or you set class in LocalSettings.php with:
'NavWrapperType' => 'contain-to-grid fixed'
and visitors will be able to remove this class by their own JavaScript or gadget ...
### Notes on other skins
As you build a wiki out with Pivot you will likely use the responsive grid from Foundation. This is key to making a responsive wiki, and is one of the largest _migration_ requirements when you want to move a wiki that previously used Vector (and likely a lot of tables for layout) to Pivot. Once you do this, the ability of a user to select whatever skin will be removed. If you take full advantage of Pivot in your templates the lack of the Foundation grid will make viewing the wiki using [Vector](http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Skin:Vector) or [MonoBook](http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Skin:MonoBook) very difficult.
Because of this, it is suggested that you set the `$wgSkipSkins` variable to make sure that everyone sees the site as you intended it. This removes other skins from being user selectable options.
# Pivot is specific, so lets disable other skins
$wgSkipSkins = array( 'chick', 'cologneblue', 'modern', 'myskin', 'nostalgia', 'simple', 'standard', 'filament', 'monobook', 'vector' );
You may also want to allow users to set a User CSS if they want to tweak things inside of Pivot. This is entirely optional.
# Allow User CSS, mostly for skin testing
$wgAllowUserCss = true;
## Using Pivot
Questions, open an issue in this repo on Github.