Skin:Erudite

Erudite is a clean and easy to read skin 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 used Appearances to change your skin. To set Erudite to be the default skin, you must edit the LocalSettings.php to read:

$wgDefaultSkin = "erudite";

Top banner image
A background image can be set for the top section by setting the $wgEruditeBannerImg variable in LocalSettings.php. It should be set to a URL relative to the mediawiki directory, for example:

$wgEruditeBannerImg = "images/mybanner.jpg";

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