Thread:Talk:MediaWiki/Wiki theme editing/reply (2)

Hi!

MediaWiki uses a rather clean template and a few CSS files. In practice: You find the HTML structure in skins/Vector.php and the CSS files in skins/vector/screen.css. They contain the design of Wikipedia, meaning: What you see here, is what is coming from these files.

How easily you can make this design look like the rest of your website depends on the rest of your website. ;-) If you basically only want to change the background color and the font, then it is easy. But if you in contrast also want to change the actions, which happen when you click certain links or stuff like that, meaning the internals which make MediaWiki workthe way it does, then it will be more difficult (but still doable for an experienced user).

If what you want to do is basically only a "smaller" modification, then you might be better of, if instead of changing the source code in the mentioned files, you would add your CSS rules to the wiki page MediaWiki:Vector.css. That way you can change the layout without(!) touching the source code at all.