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I need to create a new skin but I having trouble figuring out to do this and
get the skin to be recognised by MediaWiki. I understand that I need to
create a new SkinXXX.php file in the include directory and also a new css
file in the stylesheet directory. But, how can this new skin be registered in
MediaWiki so that I can use it with the wgDefaultUserOptionsEn['skin']
variable in Language.php?

I would greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance,

Charanpal