Thread:Project:Support desk/Creating a skin based on monobook.

Hi, I've been following the guide at:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skins/Meta#Creating_a_Skin_based_on_MonoBook_.281.6.x.29

Unfortunately, I cant tell which version of Monobook is current, I've noticed that MediaWiki has been evolving a lot lately so a skin I make on a new version wont work on a slightly older one.

I've finally got a skin together which looks and feels like the monobook skin, it's using the tutorial above, but it's just missing a few styles and I cant seem to figure out where those styles come from.

E.g. this line that manages the tabs at the top of the page ('page', 'discussion', 'edit', etc)

Is there a way to turn a debug mode on that will allow me to seperate the way mediawiki calls its scripts? right now it's using load.php to pull is masses of files, this makes it difficult for me to debug my skinning issues.

I look forward to hearing from you. It would also be great if somebody upgraded the Skinning guides so that they'll work with the latest version of mediawiki.

My mediawiki verion: 1.23 Staging: http://thinkstaging.com/showcase/actwiki/index.php?title=Guide_to_Risk_Management