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# MediaWiki Foreground Skin
[MediaWiki](http://www.mediawiki.org) skin that focuses on putting your content in the *foreground*. Supports responsive layouts and has classes predefined for [Semantic MediaWiki](http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki). Built on the [Zurb Foundation](http://foundation.zurb.com) CSS framework.
## Download
First, copy the Foreground 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/thingles/foreground/archive/master.zip
You should extract that into a folder named `foreground` 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/thingles/foreground.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($IP.'/skins/foreground/foreground.php');
This will activate Foreground in your installation. At this point you can select it as a user skin in your user preferences.
To activate Foreground for all users and anonymous visitors, you need to set the `$wgDefaultSkin` variable and set it to `foreground`.
$wgDefaultSkin = "foreground";
### Notes on other skins
As you build a wiki out with Foreground you will likely use the responsive grid from Foundation. This is key to making a responsive wiki, and is one of the largest _migration_ requirements when you want to move a wiki that ppreviously used Vector (and likely a lot of tables for layout) to Foreground. Once you do this, the ability of a user to select whatever skin will be removed. If you take full advantage of Foreground in your templates the lack of the Foundation grid will make viewing the wiki using [Vector](http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Skin:Vector) or [MonoBook](http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Skin:MonoBook) very difficult.
Because of this, it is suggested that you set the `$wgSkipSkins` variable to make sure that everyone sees the site as you intended it. This removes other skins from being user selectable options.
# Foreground 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 Foreground. This is entirely optional.
# Allow User CSS, mostly for skin testing
$wgAllowUserCss = true;
## Wikis Using Foreground
You can see a list of wikis with [Foreground installed at WikiApiary](http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Skin:Foreground).

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