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Chameleon Release status: stableCategory:GPL licensed skinsCategory:Stable skins
Description	Provides a flexible responsive skin using Bootstrap 4
Author(s)	Stephan Gambke
Maintainer(s)	Professional Wiki
Latest version	5.0.1 (2025-03-30)
Compatibility policy	Follows the MediaWiki version lifecycle. Master is not backwards compatible.Category:Skins with long-term support release branches compatibility policy
MediaWiki	1.39+
PHP	8.0+
Composer	mediawiki/chameleon-skin Category:Skins supporting Composer
License	GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history Category:Skins in GitHub version control README on GitHub Changelog on GitHub
Example	Bootstrap for MediaWiki
Hooks used LocalisationCacheRecache Category:LocalisationCacheRecache extensions SetupAfterCache Category:SetupAfterCache extensions
Hooks provided ChameleonSkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec ChameleonNavbarHorizontalPersonalToolsLinkText
Public wikis using	243 (Ranked 28th)
Public wikis using as default skin	195
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Chameleon is a highly customizable responsive MediaWiki skin that uses Bootstrap 4.

It currently provides five different layouts to choose from. Each layout is defined in an XML file and is easily adaptable to your needs.

Documentation

The documentation is available on GitHub:

1. Installation, Update, De-Installation
2. Customization
   • Layout of page elements
   • Changing styles: Fonts, Colors, Padding etc.
   • Migrating from Chameleon 1.x
3. Release Notes
4. Testing
5. How to contribute
6. Credits
7. Contact

Commercial support is available via Professional Wiki, the maintainer of Chameleon.

Screenshots

• 
  Whole page in standard layout
• 
  Navigation menu
• 
  Language menu
• 
  Using the NavHead layout

Examples

Examples of Chameleon 4 or later

• Bootstrap within MediaWiki Demo Wiki
• Dizionario Italiano
• Wiki Valley
• Secret Wiki ( with custom "layout.xml" and custom components)
• Koch-Wiki ( With automatically opening menus.)
• Maps extension wiki
• demo.wiki-valley.com ( with a custom layout)
• BetaArchive Wiki
• Marketing United
• OGD Cockpit
• The MaRDI Portal
• Le Wiki Jean-Michel (with a custom layout sjm.xml — based on stickyhead.xml)

Examples of Chameleon 3

• Rhizome ArtBase

Examples of Chameleon 1 or 2

• Semantic-MediaWiki.org
• semantic.wiki
• Wikifab
• Physiopedia ( the static frontpage is not part of the skin)

For many more examples see Chameleon's page on WikiApiary

See also

Other skins and extensions related to the Bootstrap framework:

• Skins based on Bootstrap - Overview of skins based on the Bootstrap framework

• Extension:Bootstrap - Provides the Bootstrap framework to MediaWiki

• Extension:BootstrapComponents - Provides further components to the Bootstrap framework for MediaWiki Category:Skins based on Bootstrap

Other

• Bootstrap for MediaWiki wiki — Examples and Demos
• Enhance Your MediaWiki with Bootstrap — Blog post about improving your wiki by integrating it with Bootstrap and its components; published January 20, 2024

This skin is included in the following wiki farms/hosts and/or packages: BlueSpice Category:Skins included in BlueSpice Canasta Category:Skins included in Canasta Miraheze Category:Skins included in Miraheze MyWikisCategory:Skins included in MyWikis Open CSPCategory:Skins included in Open CSP ProWikiCategory:Skins included in ProWiki semantic::coreCategory:Skins included in semantic::core WikiForgeCategory:Skins included in WikiForge This is not an authoritative list. Some wiki farms/hosts and/or packages may contain this skin even if they are not listed here. Always check with your wiki farms/hosts or bundle to confirm.