Gravatar

Gravatar is an extension that provides avatars based on the user's email address. It supports gravatar.com or libravatar.org, including self-hosted libravatar instances.

Supported skins

• Vector
• Timeless
• MonoBook
• Mirage
• Minerva Neue
• Any skin that provides an element with the classes ext-gravatar-avatar ext-gravatar-user-avatar.

Privacy concerns

The use of gravatar avatars is guarded by the gravatar-use-gravatar preference. Users have to explicitly opt-in to allow their email address to be used for retrieving an avatar.

Site administrators should not set gravatar-use-gravatar to true in $wgDefaultUserOptions, unless users have non-personal email addresses set, or a gravatar proxy is active. In that case, disabling the user preference through $wgHiddenPrefs might be desirable, as the Gravatar privacy policy no longer applies.

Configuration

• $wgGravatarServer - This setting specifies the avatar service to connect to. By default, this is //gravatar.com.
• $wgGravatarDefaultAvatar - This setting controls the default avatar for users who have not opted-in or have no valid email address set. It can either be the url to an image, or one of the keywords supported by gravatar.
• $wgGravatarAcceptedAvatarRating - This setting controls the rating that avatars should have.
• $wgGravatarIgnoredSkins - This setting allows excluding certain skins from having the user's avatar displayed in the interface.