-This technique is used by the more ambitious MediaWiki site operators, to
-create complex custom skins for their wikis. It should be preferred over
-editing the core Monobook skin directly.
-
-See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning for more information.
-
-== Extension skins ==
-
-It is now possible (since MediaWiki 1.12) to write a skin as a standard
-MediaWiki extension, enabled via LocalSettings.php. This is done by adding
-it to $wgValidSkinNames, for example:
-
-$wgValidSkinNames['mycoolskin'] = 'MyCoolSkin';
-
-and then registering a class in $wgAutoloadClasses called SkinMycoolSkin, which
-derives from Skin. This technique is apparently not yet used (as of 2008)
-outside the DumpHTML extension.