Manual:Skins

Skins allow users to customize the look and feel of MediaWiki. MediaWiki's default skin is Vector. A number of other skins also exist in default MediaWiki installations. Users can see which skins are available on their preferences page. To see some examples of skins that other sites using MediaWiki have created, see this gallery and the Skin namespace on this wiki. It is important to note that optional components, such as JavaScript, may only function properly on a specific skin.

A directory of skins as well as a skin builder tool is available at skins.wmflabs.org.

Desired outcome	How to do it
Choose a skin only for you on a site you may not own	Help:Skins
Create or modify a skin for yourself or for others	Manual:How to make a MediaWiki skin
Choose or configure a skin for your MediaWiki installation	$wgDefaultSkin , Manual:Skin configuration

See also

• Help:Skins
• Available skins – List of available default skins bundled with MediaWiki releases
• Category:All skins – List of all community-maintained skins
• Special:SkinDistributor – Includes a list of the 15 most downloaded skins in Wikimedia version control.

Developer information:

• Skin.php – Information on Skin.php.
• Manual:How to make a MediaWiki skin
• Overriding a skin using URL parameters
• Simple mobile skin auto change – simple change to LocalSettings.php for automatic changeover to a "mobile" skin for iPhone/Android etc.
• Information on Codex design tokens used by mediawiki.skin.variables.less in Vector and MinervaNeue skins