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diff --git a/docs/skin.txt b/docs/skin.txt index fab27b87..1459d7af 100644 --- a/docs/skin.txt +++ b/docs/skin.txt @@ -1,57 +1,59 @@ skin.txt -MediaWiki's default skin is called Vector. Vector was introduced in -the 1.16 release (2010) and has been set as the default in MediaWiki since -the 1.17 release (2011). This replaced the popular skin, Monobook which -had been been the default since MediaWiki 1.3 (2004). Vector is now the -default skin on Wikimedia Projects. +MediaWiki includes four core skins: -There are three legacy skins which were introduced before MediaWiki 1.3: +* Vector: The default skin. Introduced in the 1.16 release (2010), it has been + set as the default in MediaWiki since the 1.17 release (2011), replacing + Monobook. -* Standard (a.k.a. Classic): The old default skin written by Lee Crocker -during the phase 3 rewrite, in 2002. +* Monobook: Named after the black-and-white photo of a book in the page + background. Introduced in the 2004 release of 1.3, it had been been the + default skin since then, before being replaced by Vector. -* Nostalgia: A skin which looks like Wikipedia did in its first year (2001). -This skin is now used for the old Wikipedia snapshot at -http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/ +* Modern: An attractive blue/grey theme with sidebar and top bar. Derived from + Monobook. -* Cologne Blue: A nicer-looking alternative to Standard. +* Cologne Blue: A lightweight skin with minimal formatting. The oldest of the + currently bundled skins, largely rewritten in 2012 while keeping its + appearance. -The other skin that is widely used (and is the MediaWiki default before 1.17) -is Monobook. -* Monobook: Named after the black-and-white photo of a book, in the page background. -This was introduced in the 2004 release of 1.3 +Several legacy skins were removed in the 1.22 release, as the burden of +supporting them became too heavy to bear. Those were: -And there are four Monobook-derived skins which have been introduced since 1.3: +* Standard (a.k.a. Classic): The old default skin written by Lee Crocker during + the phase 3 rewrite, in 2002. -* MySkin: Monobook without the CSS. The idea is that you customise it using user -or site CSS (see below) +* Nostalgia: A skin which looks like Wikipedia did in its first year (2001). + 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 are -given at the bottom of the page instead, as in the unstyled MySkin. +* 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. +* Simple: A lightweight skin with a simple white-background sidebar and no top + bar. + +* MySkin: Essentially Monobook without the CSS. The idea was that it could be + customised using user-specific or site-wide CSS (see below). -* Modern: An attractive blue/grey theme with sidebar and top bar. == 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:Monobook.css]], [[MediaWiki:Simple.css]], etc. -- for -skin-dependent CSS -* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]], [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]], etc. -- for custom -site JavaScript +* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] -- for skin-independent JavaScript +* [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]], [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]], etc. -- for + skin-dependent CSS +* [[MediaWiki:Vector.js]], [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]], etc. -- for + skin-dependent JavaScript These can also be customised on a per-user basis, by editing -[[User:<name>/monobook.css]], [[User:<name>/monobook.js]], etc. +[[User:<name>/vector.css]], [[User:<name>/vector.js]], etc. -This feature has led to a wide variety of "user styles" becoming available, -which change the appearance of Monobook or MySkin: +This feature has led to a wide variety of "user styles" becoming available: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Gallery_of_user_styles @@ -72,7 +74,7 @@ $wgSkipSkins[] = '<name>'; 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. |