Manual:Gallery of user styles

This page is a showcase of mediawiki skins. None of these skins are maintained by the MediaWiki developers; if you find an error or wish to leave feedback, contact their respective authors.

Use the form below to create a new subpage to list details for your skin. Please add your skin to the appropriate gallery afterwards.

Monobook derived skins
Styles and positioning of page elements is stored in a file called main.css. To get to this file go to skins/monobook/main.css. Editing in CSS is fairly simple, once you figure out what each color and position corresponds to. This allows you to keep the MonoBook skin as the default, which is nice because it is well written.

If you want to put in Google ads or some other JavaScript program, you can do this in Monobook.php. You can actually edit any .php file's appearance by going to main.css in the appropriate folder/directory. If you only wish to Change CSS or JS, its recommended that you use the MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js pages on your wiki whenever possible, as directly editing skin files can cause problems when upgrading.

Cavendish
{{/details This skin is a reworke of the skin formerly used at wiki.mozilla.org. It has been modified to work better with new versions of MediaWiki. The newest version is used at www.wecowi.de. Bugs and feature requests can be submitted at sourceforge project page. The development is not finished yet. There will be new versions of this skin in future, so stay in touch. The current version is working with Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, IE7 and IE8. IE6 was not tested but it's likely not working completely.
 * title        = Cavendish
 * screenshot   = Cavendish-Skin.jpg
 * version      = 1.3.6
 * author       = DaSch
 * download     = http://sourceforge.net/projects/wecowi/files/Cavendish/Cavendish-1.3.6-r471.zip/download
 * mw           = tested with 1.15 - 1.19 (may work with older versions)
 * description  =

The Skin was mostly developed for the newest trunk-version of MediaWiki. For this version all features are supported.

Version Notes

 * 0.9.2: works with MW 1.15.1
 * 0.9.5: Some bugs were reported, but could not be verified yet.
 * 1.2.0: big rework and uses many elements from MonoBook Skin, so that it should be compatible to most MW Versions.
 * 1.3.1: was tested with Mediawiki 1.16.5 and 1.17.0 and 1.19alpha.
 * 1.3.3: bugfixes and added support for Mediawiki 1.15
 * 1.3.6: bugfixes and added option for Google +1 Button

Configuration Options
There are different options for the Skin that can be set in LocalSettings.php
 * $cavendishLogoURL – Link to the Logo that should be displayed in the header
 * $cavendishLogoWidth – width of the logo as a number in px
 * $cavendishLogoHeight – height of the logo as a number in px
 * $cavendishLogoMargin – offset on top of the logo
 * $cavendishSiteWith – fixed width of the content area, if not set it's dynamic
 * $cavendishExtensionCSS – set this to false if you do not want to use Cavendish CSS for Extensions
 * $cavendishGGplusone -	add Google +1 button (since 1.3.6)

Known Issus
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 * some functions may not work with older Versions of MediaWiki
 * Bugreports can be made here: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/wecowi/newticket

Monaco
Monaco can be downloaded from https://github.com/dantman/monaco-port

The Erudite MW
{{/details WordPress' Erudite theme ported to work with MediaWiki. You can find out more information here along with a screenshot.
 * title        = The Erudite MW
 * screenshot   = MediaWikiSkinTheErudite.png
 * version      = 0.9.0
 * author       = Matt Wiebe (ported to MediaWiki by Colin Ferm)
 * download     = http://www.unifiedrepublicofstars.com/mw-erudite.tar.gz
 * mw           = 1.16.x
 * description  =

Bug in 328 line of Erudite.php. Replace <? } ?> on  Bug: Fatal error: Call to undefined method Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript in Erudite.php on line 159 }}