Skin:Minerva Neue

Minerva is the skin that serves mobile traffic for Wikimedia projects across the world. Compared to other skins e.g. Vector it provides a much more simplistic user interface and is much more aggressive about optimising for performance so that it can cater for mobile users.

It is optimised for use with MobileFrontend as the wgMFDefaultSkinClass and at the time of writing this is a hard dependency.

Status
Currently a skin - Minerva - is bundled up with the MobileFrontend extension. Soon this will be separated into a skin that depends on MobileFrontend. Once this is done, work will be done to remove the MobileFrontend dependency.

You can track progress with this in T71366

Installation

 * Download and install the MobileFrontend extension.

Desktop vs mobile modes
MobileFrontend provides additional capabilities that are not available in MediaWiki core. You can compare desktop vs mobile mode.

When operating in mobile mode the following features are available: The desktop mode of the site is experimental. If you see a bug, patches are appreciated.
 * Sections can be collapsed and expanded
 * The menu contains different options e.g Special:Preferences is available on desktop
 * MediaWiki:Mobile.css (for mobile mode) or MediaWiki:Common.css (for desktop mode) will be loaded.
 * Various pages are optimised for mobile e.g. Special:Watchlist (compare desktop vs mobile)