Whoops! The default skin for your wiki, defined in $wgDefaultSkin as $1, is not available.
You have no installed skins.
- If you have just installed or upgraded MediaWiki
- You probably installed from git, or directly from the source code using some other method. This is expected. MediaWiki 1.24 and newer doesn't include any skins in the main repository. Try installing some skins from mediawiki.org's skin directory, by:
- Downloading the tarball installer, which comes with several skins and extensions. You can copy and paste the
skins/directory from it. - Downloading individual skin tarballs from mediawiki.org.
- Cloning one of the
mediawiki/skins/*repositories via git into theskins/directory of your MediaWiki installation.
- Downloading the tarball installer, which comes with several skins and extensions. You can copy and paste the
- Doing this should not interfere with your git repository if you're a MediaWiki developer. See Manual: Skin configuration for information how to enable skins and choose the default.
