Manual:$wgDefaultSkin/de

Details
Diese Einstellung definiert den Standard-Skin und sollte den Namen des Skins in Kleinbuchstaben enthalten (Bspw. 'monobook', nicht ''MonoBook').

Beachte, dass diese Einstellung nur den Standard-Skin für neue und unangemeldete Besucher betrifft. Registrierte Benutzer können jeden anderen verfügbaren Skin in Ihren Einstellungen einstellen (siehe Manual:$wgSkipSkins um zu erfahren, wie du dies steuern kannst).

Changing user preferences when removing a skin
In versions up to at most 1.11, upon registration the value of  was copied to the user preferences; thus setting $wgDefaultSkin to another skin would not have had any effect on registered users, even if they never changed their preferences. And it did not have an effect on registered users, who did change the skin to use.

When you remove a skin from the list of skins to choose from, use the maintenance script Manual:UserOptions.php to make sure that this skin is also not chosen by any user:

This will change the skin for all registered users, who have selected Monobook, to Vector.

Available skins
Several skins are included with the MediaWiki installer tarball (the table below details the versions they were/are available with). You can find more skins in Category:All skins.

The first column gives the ID which should be used to configure this setting, the second gives the name as it appears within the MediaWiki interface and the third indicates the versions of MediaWiki that this skin is available for: