Skin:Erudite

Erudite is a clean and easy to read skin.

It is designed to scale well to any device, using @media queries, only using relative units, no javascript, and generally keeping to the principle of "Keep It Simple, Stupid".

The skin is based on "The Erudite" WordPress theme by Matt Wiebe. It was first ported to MediaWiki for "The Unified Republic of Stars", later improved by Nick White, and now it sits in WikiMedia's source control.

Installation
Note this will only install the skin, but will not change the current skin. To change the current skin, navigate to Special:Preferences and use Appearances to change your skin. To set Erudite to be the default skin, you must edit the LocalSettings.php to read:

Top banner image
A background image can be set for the top section by adding a line to MediaWiki:Common.css like this:

Extra content in footer
Extra content can be added to each column of the footer. Just navigate to the page MediaWiki:Erudite-extracontent-column1 (or 2 or 3) on your wiki, and add the wikitext you want to appear.