Help:Skin
Skin
This page is a help page, and is not a policy or guideline. Please use this page to help you around Miraheze's Wikis.
A skin is a style of appearance and layout for a MediaWiki-based website like Miraheze. Changing the skin changes how the interface and layout of the site appears. Although skins vary in their look and feel, in general they contain the same user interface components, such as Edit and Page History buttons.
Miraheze uses the Vector skin by default, which is also the default skin currently used on Wikipedia. Users who are logged in can choose from additional skins if they wish to customize their appearance of the site.
Available skins
Miraheze currently offers the following skins by default:
- Cologne Blue
- Minerva Neue (default for mobile)
- Modern
- MonoBook
- Vector (default for desktop)
- Timeless
More skins are listed on Skins.
Changing your skin
To change your skin, you first must have an account and be logged in to it. Once that is done, go to your user preferences and select the 'Appearance' tab. The skins available on offer will be displayed under the Skin section. You can click the Preview button to see how the Main Page would look using the skin.
It is also possible to see how a particular page would look like in a particular skin by suffixing the URL of the page with ?useskin=name of skin. This can be done by anyone, even by those who are not logged in, but this change will not be saved and the process will need to be repeated for each page.
Screenshots
Customizing the skin
You can further customize skins for your own account by adding Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or JavaScript (JS) code to certain subpages of your user page. You can access these pages by going to your user preferences and select the 'Appearance' tab. The skins available on offer will be displayed under the Skin section. You can use the Custom CSS and Custom JavaScript buttons to access these pages. You can either add CSS or JS code that applies only when you use a specific skin, or add them to a "common" file that applies your changes to all of your skins.