* Modern: An attractive blue/grey theme with sidebar and top bar. Derived from
Monobook.
-* Cologne Blue: A lightweight skin with minimal formatting. The oldest of
- currently bundled skins, largely rewritten in 2012 while keeping the looks.
+* Cologne Blue: A lightweight skin with minimal formatting. The oldest of the
+ currently bundled skins, largely rewritten in 2012 while keeping its
+ appearance.
Several legacy skins were removed in the 1.22 release, as the burden of
This skin is now used for the old Wikipedia snapshot at
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/
-* Chick: A lightweight Monobook skin with no sidebar, the sidebar links were
+* Chick: A lightweight Monobook skin with no sidebar. The sidebar links were
given at the bottom of the page instead.
* Simple: A lightweight skin with a simple white-background sidebar and no top
bar.
-* MySkin: Monobook without the CSS. The idea was that you customise it using
- user or site CSS.
+* MySkin: Essentially Monobook without the CSS. The idea was that it could be
+ customised using user-specific or site-wide CSS (see below).
== Custom CSS/JS ==
It is possible to customise the site CSS and JavaScript without editing any
-source files. This is done by editing some pages on the wiki:
+server-side source files. This is done by editing some pages on the wiki:
* [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] -- for skin-independent CSS
* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] -- for skin-independent JavaScript
This feature has led to a wide variety of "user styles" becoming available:
-http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Gallery_of_user_styles
+https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Gallery_of_user_styles
If you want a different look for your wiki, that gallery is a good place to start.
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.
+editing the core Monobook skin directly.
-See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning for more information.
+See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning for more information.
== Extension skins ==