Introducing WMAU Skin for MediaWiki
Channel: Wikimedia Australia
Date: 2023-12-10

The Wikimedia Australia website doesn’t look like other Wikis because it uses a special skin developed by Sam Wilson and Caddie Brain.

In this video, Sam Wilson and James Gaunt talk through how Wikimedia Australia takes advantage of this skin and other customisations to look and feel like the great website it is.

0:00 Intro
0:42 Sam Wilson Intro and tour
5:00 Menu customisation with json
6:46 Creating cards with Cargo
9:08 Events listings
12:33 Future plans: RSS, improving entering Events and data, Talk page discussions
15:45 James Gaunt tour, logging in, editing pages and cards, and how the front page displays recent events and blog posts
18:51 Creating a new Event
25:17 How cards display and can be edited
26:06 The News page and customising which blog posts display
30:03 Author pages
30:49 Creating a blog post and adding images from Wikimedia Commons
35:33 Wrap up with Sam, where to download WMAU Skin and where to report bugs or collaborate

You can try out the skin yourself. Find downloads and further information here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:WMAU

See a live demo of the skin here with additional notes: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/MediaWiki_skin

Find out more about Wikimedia Australia here: https://wikimedia.org.au