Skin:BlueSky

BlueSky skin is a modern, scalable and attractive skin for MediaWiki, based on wikiHow's third redesign (which was introduced in autumn 2013). It was written by Jack Phoenix, mentored by Emufarmers and Isarra, as a part of Summer of Code 2014. The skin is based on work done by Reuben Smith, Bebeth Steudel, Gershon Bialer and others for wikiHow.

The skin has been tested against MediaWiki 1.23 and 1.24alpha.

Social media support
When  contains some HTML, this HTML is shown on the right side of the page (on LTR interfaces; the opposite for RTL).

For example:

Featured contributor widget
You can feature some of your wiki's hard-working members in the skin's sidebar by editing. The format for that message is:

User name
The blurb goes here.

Foo Bar
Foo Bar is one of 's administrators, and they have over a thousand edits on and they've been a member of the community for three years.

To insert a newline, use the HTML  tag instead of an actual newline.

When the SocialProfile extension is installed, the user's avatar will also be shown on the sidebar.

Themes
Even if the Theme extension is not installed, BlueSky supports the following themes:


 * blue (default if no other theme is specified)
 * green
 * grey
 * red
 * white

The default site-wide theme can be set by specifying  in LocalSettings.php, and each theme can be previewed by appending   to the URL, followed by the desired theme name (from the list above).