Citizen

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Installation ​

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

Requirements ​

Using older versions of MediaWiki?

Please use one of the following legacy releases:

Citizen versionMediaWiki version
2.40.21.39.4 – 1.42.7
1.17.91.35.2 – 1.39.3

Get the skin ​

  1. Download the latest release.
  2. Extract the contents into a directory called Citizen in your skins/ folder.
text
mediawiki/
└── skins/
    └── Citizen/
        ├── skin.json
        ├── i18n/
        ├── includes/
        ├── resources/
        └── ...

Activate ​

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

LocalSettings.php
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
php
$wgDefaultSkin = 'citizen';

Next steps ​

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