Installation

Ready to give your wiki a fresh look? Follow these steps to install Citizen.

Requirements

• MediaWiki 1.43.0 or later

Using older versions of MediaWiki?

Please use one of the following legacy releases:

Citizen version	MediaWiki version
2.40.2	1.39.4 – 1.42.7
1.17.9	1.35.2 – 1.39.3

Get the skin

1. Download the latest release.
2. Extract the contents into a directory called Citizen in your skins/ folder.

mediawiki/
└── skins/
    └── Citizen/
        ├── skin.json
        ├── i18n/
        ├── includes/
        ├── resources/
        └── ...

Activate

To enable the skin, add this to your LocalSettings.php:

LocalSettings.php

wfLoadSkin( 'Citizen' );

Head over to Special:Version to verify that the skin is successfully enabled.

Configure

Set as default

To set Citizen as the wiki's default skin, add this to your LocalSettings.php:

LocalSettings.php

$wgDefaultSkin = 'citizen';

Next steps

Citizen works out of the box without additional configuration, but you can customize it further:

• Skin configuration: Tweak colors, layout, and features.
• Extension support: Configure Citizen's improved support for popular extensions.