Help:Skins
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A skin is the style which is applied over the top of a wiki page's content. The content itself is not changed by the skin in which it appears, but the colors, design, and navigation of the page can be very different from one skin to another.
What skins are available?
The skin used in new Wikia sites is Monaco. It is currently available in seven default color themes: Sapphire, Jade, Slate, Smoke, Beach, Brick, and Gaming. The skin can also be completely customized, or details of the default themes can be tweaked, using stylesheets. See Help:Customizing Monaco for details, and Help:Examples of customized Monaco skins for previews. The Monaco skin allows for extensive customization of the flyout side menu, and the drag-and-drop elements of the sidebar (including numerous useful widgets) can be arranged to suit the user's preferences.
Some older Wikia are still using the previous default skin, Quartz, which had a wide menu on the right, and was the first skin to support widgets. A few are still using Monobook: this is the same skin used by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects, but it does not support the modern features of Monaco and Quartz. (Older sites may be upgraded to Monaco by contacting the Community Team.)
Personal choices
If you are logged in, you can change your own personal view of Wikia pages by choosing your favorite skin in your preferences. For instance, if you choose Quartz and untick the option to see customized skins in your preferences, you will see all Wikia sites in Quartz, even if the wiki's default skin is set to Monaco or something else. (Unregistered users may use the "switch to" links below and their choice will be saved in a cookie.)
Some communities spend a lot of time customizing their modern skins with custom menus, colors, and more. If your personal preferences are set differently from the site's default, especially if you use an older skin, you might miss out on some of the wiki's customization and features. Therefore, we recommend checking the box labeled "Let the admins override my skin choice" in Preferences. Your favorite skin will show on all standard, un-customized wikis, but sites who have made the extra effort will be seen the way their community intends.
Customizing and understanding skins
For information on how skins work, and how to customize them sitewide and for personal use, see Help:Customizing skins.
Skins overview
Note that some of these skins are provided for historic reasons only. They do not support all of the newer features provided in Monaco. For more info on this, see Help:Comparison of skin features.
 MonacoMonaco is the standard skin for Wikia sites. It features a left-hand sidebar with a fully customizable flyout menu. The sidebar has a unique drag-and-drop interface, allowing users to arrange the sidebar to their usage patterns, as well as add and remove useful widgets. The user bar at the top contains a drop-down for user pages, and related wikis, and the bar at the bottom of the page makes it easy to rate and share articles. See also: | ||
Quartz
See Help:Customizing Quartz for more information. |
MonoBook
See Help:Customizing Monobook for more information. |
Cologne Blue
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MySkin
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Simple
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Standard (Classic)
Classic was the default style used by MediaWiki software prior to MediaWiki 1.3, which was released in 2004. |
