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skin.txt
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MediaWiki includes four core skins:
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* Vector: The default skin. Introduced in the 1.16 release (2010), it has been
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set as the default in MediaWiki since the 1.17 release (2011), replacing
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Monobook.
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* Monobook: Named after the black-and-white photo of a book in the page
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background. Introduced in the 2004 release of 1.3, it had been the
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default skin since then, before being replaced by Vector.
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* Modern: An attractive blue/grey theme with sidebar and top bar. Derived from
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Monobook.
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* Cologne Blue: A lightweight skin with minimal formatting. The oldest of the
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currently bundled skins, largely rewritten in 2012 while keeping its
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appearance.
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Several legacy skins were removed in the 1.22 release, as the burden of
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supporting them became too heavy to bear. Those were:
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* Standard (a.k.a. Classic): The old default skin written by Lee Crocker during
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the phase 3 rewrite, in 2002.
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* Nostalgia: A skin which looks like Wikipedia did in its first year (2001).
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This skin is now used for the old Wikipedia snapshot at
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http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/
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* Chick: A lightweight Monobook skin with no sidebar. The sidebar links were
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given at the bottom of the page instead.
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* Simple: A lightweight skin with a simple white-background sidebar and no top
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bar.
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* MySkin: Essentially Monobook without the CSS. The idea was that it could be
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customised using user-specific or site-wide CSS (see below).
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== Custom CSS/JS ==
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It is possible to customise the site CSS and JavaScript without editing any
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server-side source files. This is done by editing some pages on the wiki:
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* [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] -- for skin-independent CSS
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* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] -- for skin-independent JavaScript
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* [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]], [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]], etc. -- for
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skin-dependent CSS
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* [[MediaWiki:Vector.js]], [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]], etc. -- for
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skin-dependent JavaScript
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These can also be customised on a per-user basis, by editing
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[[User:<name>/vector.css]], [[User:<name>/vector.js]], etc.
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== Custom skins ==
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Several custom skins are available as of 2014.
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:All_skins
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Installing a skin requires adding its files in a subdirectory under skins/ and
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adding an appropriate require_once line to LocalSettings.php, similarly to how
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extensions are installed.
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You can then make that skin the default by adding:
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$wgDefaultSkin = '<name>';
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Or disable it entirely by removing the require_once line. (User settings will
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not be lost if it's reenabled later.)
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See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning for more information on
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writing new skins.
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Until MediaWiki 1.25 it used to be possible to just put a <name>.php file in
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MediaWiki's skins/ directory, which would be loaded and expected to contain the
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Skin<name> class. This way has always been discouraged because of its limitations
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(inability to add localisation messages, ResourceLoader modules, etc.) and
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awkwardness in managing such skins. For information on migrating skins using
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this old method, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery>.
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