MinervaNeue skin

The MinervaNeue skin is a responsive mobile-first skin for your mediawiki instance.

Installation

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:MinervaNeue

Development

Coding conventions

Please follow the coding conventions of MobileFrontend: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MobileFrontend/Coding_conventions

Config

The following configuration options will apply only to the default mobile skin - Minerva.

$wgMinervaAlwaysShowLanguageButton

• Type: Boolean
• Default: true

Whether to show the language switcher button even if no languages are available for the page.

$wgMinervaEnableSiteNotice

• Type: Boolean
• Default: false

Controls whether site notices should be shown. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSiteNotice.

$wgMinervaShowCategories

• Type: Array
• Default:

  [
    'base' => false,
  ]

  Controls whether the category button should be displayed.

$wgMinervaDonateLink

• Type: Array
• Default:

  [
    'base' => true,
  ]

When enabled a donate link will be added to the main menu. The donate link uses the sitesupport and sitesupport-url mediawiki messages.

$wgMinervaDonateBanner

• Type: Array
• Default:

  [
    'base' => false,
  ]

When enabled and associated messages have been defined (skin-minerva-donate-banner-url) a banner will appear at the bottom of the mobile main menu.

$wgMinervaTalkAtTop

• Type: Array
• Default:

  [
    'base' => false,
    'amc' => true,
  ]

  Controls whether the talk option should be displayed at the top of the page. This will work for all pages except the main page.

$wgMinervaHistoryInPageActions

• Type: Array
• Default:

  [
    'base' => false,
    'amc' => true,
  ]

  Controls whether the history link appears in the page actions menu.

$wgMinervaAdvancedMainMenu

• Type: Array
• Default:

  [
    'base' => false,
    'amc' => true,
  ]

  Controls whether the main menu is expanded to contain recent changes and various options.

Note, if enabled, then $wgMinervaPersonalMenu must also be enabled.

$wgMinervaPersonalMenu

• Type: Array
• Default:

  [
    'base' => false,
    'amc' => true,
  ]

  Controls whether a personal menu appears in the header chrome. This menu contains pages such as Special:Watchlist. Note, the links displayed in this menu depend on the configuration of $wgMinervaAdvancedMainMenu.

When enabled, for logged out users, users will see:

• log in
• create account link

When enabled for logged in or AMC users, users will see:

• user page
• a sandbox link (if the extension SandboxLink is enabled)
• talk page
• watchlist
• contributions
• log out

$wgMinervaOverflowInPageActions

• Type: Array
• Default:

  [
    'base' => false,
    'amc' => false,
  ]

  Controls whether the overflow link appears in the page actions menu.

$wgMinervaAlwaysShowLanguageButton

• Type: Boolean
• Default: true

Whether to show the language switcher button even if no languages are available for the page.

$wgMinervaABSamplingRate

• Type: Number
• Default: 0

On a scale of 0 to 1, determines the chance a user has of entering an AB test. A test is divided into 3 buckets, "control" "A" and "B". Users that are selected for the test have an equal chance of entering bucket "A" or "B", the remaining users fall into the "control" bucket and are excluded from the test.

1 - would run test on 100% of users (50% in A and 50% in B, 0 in control). 0.5 - would run test on 50% of users (25% in A, 25% in B, 50% in control). 0.05 - would run test on 5% of users (2.5% in A, 2.5% in B, 95% in control). 0 would disable the test and place all users in "control".

Group assignment is universal no matter how many tests are running since both wgMinervaABSamplingRate and mw.user.sessionId() are globals.

Group membership can be debugged from the console via:

const AB = require('skins.minerva.scripts/AB')
new AB({
  testName: 'WME.PageIssuesAB',
  samplingRate: mw.config.get( 'wgMinervaABSamplingRate', 0 ),
  sessionId: mw.user.sessionId()
}).getBucket()

And since session ID is an input in calculating the group, reassignment occurs when clearing it: ‘mw.storage.session.remove('mwuser-sessionId’)`.

$wgMinervaNightMode

• Type: array
• Default:

  [
    'base' => false,
  ]

Temporary feature flag for enabling the night mode feature.

$wgMinervaNightModeOptions

• Type: array
• Default:

  [
    "exclude" => [
        "mainpage" => false,
        "querystring" => [],
        "namespaces" => [],
        "pagetitles" => []
    ]
  ]

Allows the disabling of the night theme on certain pages. NOTE: Vector skin must be enabled to use this functionality.