Help:Skins

A skin is the style surrounding the content area. 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. Wikia offers seven default skins, as well as the option to customize to fit your wiki topic. The skin currently used in on Wikia is called the Monaco skin.

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.

Choosing a skin under My Preferences
Click on your user name at the top of the screen, and select "My Preferences" from the dropdown menu.



Click on the second tab titled Skin under Preferences, and this brings up the Skin Chooser.

Default Skins
The seven default color themes include:

Monobook
Monobook is the default style of Wikipedia and many other MediaWiki sites is also available as default, but does not support many of Wikia's new features. See Help:Customizing Monobook for more information.

Wiki Customized skins
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. This checkbox is selected by default. You will need to uncheck it and you will only see your personal color theme for all wikis.



Below the See Custom Wikis checkbox, you will see which skin has been chosen by the admins for this wiki.

Admins
If you are a wiki admin (or founder), you have the ability to customize the wiki's design, color and functionality. To choose a preset standard, you can simply click on the down arrow and select which color theme you would like to apply wiki-wide under preferences, skins, admin options.

If you select Custom, you customize your wiki skin by editing the article MediaWiki:Monaco.css on your wiki (i.e., "xyz.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Monaco.css"). Please refer to the article Help:Customizing Monaco to learn more about complete customizations.