Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

Skin

Think of skins as putting on colored sunglasses—red, yellow, blue, or whatever. The world looks very different, but only to you. You can choose from one of eight separate skins, each of which creates a distinct look using different fonts, colors, and even positioning of links and images.

The choice of skins includes the standard Monobook. All the figures in this book were taken with the standard Monobook screen. Figure 20-5 shows a different skin, Nostalgia, to give you get a sense of how dramatic a change a skin can make.

Figure 20-5. Here’s the top of the Main Page in the Nostalgia skin rather than the usual Monobook. The Wikipedia logo appears on the right side of the page rather than the left, and the six standard links (username, “my talk”, My Preferences, and so on), normally in the upper-right corner, aren’t visible at all. You find them, along with a multitude of other links, in a drop-down menu.

Figure 20-6 shows the eight different skins that you can choose from.

Figure 20-6. In the Skin tab of your My Preferences page, you’ll see Monobook plus your seven other choices: Chick, Classic, Cologne Blue, Modern, MySkin, Nostalgia, and Simple. You can click on a link to see a preview.

If you pick either the Classic or Cologne Blue skin, you also get another tab ...