Skin:Skins
From WikiApiary, tracking Skins and over 3,200 other skins
| Skin data collected from | Default skin data collected from | Recorded |
|---|---|---|
| 55933 Wikis | 220 Wikis | 6547 Skins |
| Installed on 1+ wikis | Installed on 5+ wikis | Default on 1+ wikis | Default on 5+ wikis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3294 | 287 | 957 | 93 |
Most used skins
Note: Only versions of MediaWiki (≥ 1.22) supply data on default and skipped skins. Thus the numbers of wikis using each as default or skipped will be underestimated for skins used on older versions of MediaWiki.
| Skin | Using as default | Installed it | Skipping it | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vector | 6,300 | 14,561 | 148 | Vector is MediaWiki's current default skin. It was built by the UsabilityInitiative project to replace MonoBook. |
| Skin:Vector | 5,943 | 14,010 | 146 | Vector is MediaWiki's current default skin. It was built by the UsabilityInitiative project to replace MonoBook. |
| FandomDesktop | 5,030 | 5,068 | 0 | Fandom's default MediaWiki layout |
| MonoBook | 2,040 | 14,681 | 140 | MonoBook used to be MediaWiki's default skin before it was replaced by the new Vector skin. |
| Skin:MonoBook | 1,860 | 13,681 | 121 | MonoBook used to be MediaWiki's default skin before it was replaced by the new Vector skin. |
| Vector legacy (2010) | 1,110 | 1,344 | 9 | |
| Skin:Aurora | 389 | 1,223 | 0 | Shiny blue category-oriented skin for ShoutWiki |
| Chameleon | 273 | 340 | 12 | The Chameleon skin uses Twitter Bootstrap 4. It currently features a horizontal navigation menu with dropdowns at the top and a horizontal menu with dropups for the language links at the bottom. |
| Modern | 239 | 11,172 | 1,104 | Modern is one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It is derived from the MonoBook skin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.24 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| Skin:Modern | 238 | 10,913 | 1,001 | Modern is one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It is derived from the MonoBook skin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.24 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| Monaco | 216 | 1,526 | 1 | An easily customizable skin with many premade themes. Port of the Old Wikia skin |
| Skin:Monaco | 216 | 1,499 | 0 | An easily customizable skin with many premade themes |
| Skin:Chameleon | 195 | 243 | 3 | The Chameleon skin uses Twitter Bootstrap 3. It currently features a horizontal navigation menu with dropdowns at the top and a horizontal menu with dropups for the language links at the bottom. |
| Skin:Timeless | 185 | 3,107 | 5 | |
| Timeless | 165 | 2,938 | 3 | |
| Foreground | 164 | 347 | 1 | A skin that puts your content in the Foreground, based on the Foundation CSS framework. |
| Skin:Foreground | 150 | 312 | 1 | A skin that puts your content in the Foreground, based on the Foundation CSS framework. |
| AdBird | 148 | 158 | 0 | |
| Skin:AdBird | 148 | 158 | 0 | |
| Vector (2022) | 146 | 1,351 | 3 | |
| Skin:Fallback | 131 | 0 | 14,390 | This is the skin introduced with MW 1.24 which is used in case no regular skin was installed for the wiki. |
| Fallback | 111 | 0 | 9,978 | Fallback is the skin introduced with MediaWiki 1.24 which is used in case no regular skin was installed for the wiki site. |
| Oasis | 82 | 124 | 4 | Fandom's old default MediaWiki layout, before the migration to Fandom Desktop |
| Skin:BootstrapMediaWiki | 58 | 66 | 0 | |
| Skin:Hydra Dark | 52 | 52 | 34 | |
| Hydra Dark | 52 | 52 | 34 | |
| Skin:Tweeki | 47 | 116 | 0 | Bootstrap based, fully configurable, especially suitable for wiki-as-a-website |
| Skin:Cologne Blue | 47 | 3,923 | 905 | |
| Citizen | 41 | 90 | 1 | Citizen is a beautiful, usable, responsive MediaWiki skin that makes extensions part of the cohesive experience. It was initially created for the Star Citizen Wiki but is flexible to run on various MediaWiki configurations. If you find an issue or there is some improvements that you would like to work on, please feel free to submit patches or report issues over at GitHub. |
| Cologne Blue | 38 | 2,774 | 868 | A lightweight skin with minimal formatting |
| Bootstrap | 37 | 142 | 0 | This is a customizable responsive Bootstrap MediaWiki skin. With it, your MediaWiki skin can take advantage of some of the great features from Bootstrap. |
| Skin:Bootstrap | 37 | 140 | 0 | This is a customizable responsive Bootstrap MediaWiki skin. With it, your MediaWiki skin can take advantage of some of the great features from Bootstrap. |
| Hydra | 36 | 55 | 36 | |
| Skin:Hydra | 36 | 55 | 36 | |
| Metrolook | 34 | 118 | 0 | Custom Metro-styled skin. |
| Skin:Pivot | 34 | 50 | 0 | |
| Tweeki | 32 | 87 | 0 | Bootstrap based, fully configurable, especially suitable for wiki-as-a-website |
| Nimbus | 27 | 1,281 | 0 | |
| Skin:Bootstrapskin | 27 | 39 | 1 | |
| Skin:Metrolook | 27 | 87 | 0 | Custom Metro-styled skin. |
| Skin:Nimbus | 27 | 1,260 | 0 | |
| Medik | 26 | 56 | 0 | Medik is a simple and clean skin based on the Bootstrap 4 library. Originally and continuously developed for WikiSkripta, it is included on both Miraheze and ProWiki wiki farms. This skin is available to be used by wiki sites hosted by Miraheze and MyWikis. |
| Erudite | 24 | 145 | 1 | |
| Pivot | 24 | 34 | 0 | A mobile skin which "Pivots" seamlessly to any size display. |
| Strapping | 23 | 80 | 1 | Strapping is an elegant, responsive, and friendly starter skin for MediaWiki. Its purpose is to provide a good base to build upon, and was primarily created to provide a great default for wiki-as-a-website — but it works well for standard wikis too. |
| Skin:Erudite | 23 | 122 | 0 | |
| Skin:Strapping | 23 | 75 | 1 | Strapping is an elegant, responsive, and friendly starter skin for MediaWiki. Its purpose is to provide a good base to build upon, and was primarily created to provide a great default for wiki-as-a-website — but it works well for standard wikis too. |
| Cavendish | 22 | 181 | 0 | This skin is a rework of the skin formerly used at wiki.mozilla.org. It has been modified to work better with new versions of MediaWiki. |
| BootstrapMediaWiki | 20 | 27 | 0 | Bootstrap MediaWiki, sometimes also known as Matthew Batchelder Bootstrap MediaWiki, is a MediaWiki skin that uses Bootstrap 3 from Twitter! The framework gives a boatload of features that play really nicely with a MediaWiki installation. If you'd like to see one of these in the wild, check out the EotL - End of the Line MUD. |
| Skin:StrappingAds3 | 20 | 20 | 0 | |
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Most installed skins
| Skin | Installed it | Using as default | Skipping it | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MonoBook | 14,681 | 2,040 | 140 | MonoBook used to be MediaWiki's default skin before it was replaced by the new Vector skin. |
| Vector | 14,561 | 6,300 | 148 | Vector is MediaWiki's current default skin. It was built by the UsabilityInitiative project to replace MonoBook. |
| Skin:Vector | 14,010 | 5,943 | 146 | Vector is MediaWiki's current default skin. It was built by the UsabilityInitiative project to replace MonoBook. |
| Skin:MonoBook | 13,681 | 1,860 | 121 | MonoBook used to be MediaWiki's default skin before it was replaced by the new Vector skin. |
| Modern | 11,172 | 239 | 1,104 | Modern is one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It is derived from the MonoBook skin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.24 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| Skin:Modern | 10,913 | 238 | 1,001 | Modern is one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It is derived from the MonoBook skin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.24 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| Skin:CologneBlue | 6,873 | 9 | 105 | CologneBlue is one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.24 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| CologneBlue | 6,863 | 9 | 102 | CologneBlue is one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.24 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| Nostalgia | 5,440 | 1 | 29 | Nostalgia was one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a skin which looked like Wikipedia did in its first year (2001). It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| Skin:Nostalgia | 5,434 | 1 | 30 | Nostalgia was one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a skin which looked like Wikipedia did in its first year (2001). It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| Skin:Standard | 5,414 | 0 | 30 | Standard was a legacy skin, i.e., it was based on the class SkinLegacy. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| Skin:Simple | 5,394 | 0 | 30 | Simple was one of the skins which was bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a lightweight skin with a simple white-background sidebar and no top bar and derived from the MonoBook skin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| Skin:MySkin | 5,392 | 1 | 28 | MySkin was of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a lightweight Monobook skin without CSS. The idea was that the user customises it using user or site CSS. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| Standard | 5,390 | 0 | 29 | Standard was a legacy skin, i.e., it was based on the class SkinLegacy. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| Skin:Chick | 5,388 | 2 | 29 | Chick was one of the skins which was bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a lightweight Monobook skin with no sidebar, the sidebar links are given at the bottom of the page instead, as in the unstyled MySkin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| Simple | 5,370 | 0 | 29 | Simple was one of the skins which was bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a lightweight skin with a simple white-background sidebar and no top bar and derived from the MonoBook skin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| MySkin | 5,369 | 1 | 27 | MySkin was of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a lightweight Monobook skin without CSS. The idea was that the user customises it using user or site CSS. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| Chick | 5,365 | 2 | 28 | Chick was one of the skins which was bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a lightweight Monobook skin with no sidebar, the sidebar links are given at the bottom of the page instead, as in the unstyled MySkin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| FandomDesktop | 5,068 | 5,030 | 0 | Fandom's default MediaWiki layout |
| Mobileve | 4,893 | 0 | 52 | |
| Skin:Cologne Blue | 3,923 | 47 | 905 | |
| Skin:Timeless | 3,107 | 185 | 5 | |
| Timeless | 2,938 | 165 | 3 | |
| Cologne Blue | 2,774 | 38 | 868 | A lightweight skin with minimal formatting |
| Skin:MinervaNeue | 2,465 | 11 | 94 | |
| MinervaNeue | 2,388 | 11 | 94 | |
| Monaco | 1,526 | 216 | 1 | An easily customizable skin with many premade themes. Port of the Old Wikia skin |
| Skin:Monaco | 1,499 | 216 | 0 | An easily customizable skin with many premade themes |
| Vector (2022) | 1,351 | 146 | 3 | |
| Vector legacy (2010) | 1,344 | 1,110 | 9 | |
| Nimbus | 1,281 | 27 | 0 | |
| Skin:Nimbus | 1,260 | 27 | 0 | |
| Truglass | 1,251 | 1 | 0 | |
| Skin:Truglass | 1,235 | 1 | 0 | |
| Skin:Aurora | 1,223 | 389 | 0 | Shiny blue category-oriented skin for ShoutWiki |
| Skin:Dusk | 1,194 | 1 | 1 | |
| Skin:Gamepress | 1,185 | 2 | 1 | |
| Skin:DuskToDawn | 1,179 | 1 | 1 | |
| Skin:Bouquet | 1,178 | 0 | 0 | |
| Skin:DeskMessMirrored | 1,177 | 0 | 0 | |
| Gamepress | 873 | 1 | 1 | |
| Bouquet | 862 | 0 | 0 | Bouquet is a skin ported from the free and open source, GPL-licensed WordPress theme with the same name. It is described on the WordPress theme site as "an elegant, simple theme inspired by the beauty found in flowers". The original WordPress theme was written by Automattic, and the MediaWiki port was carried out by Jack Phoenix on 11 January 2014 for ShoutWiki. |
| DeskMessMirrored | 861 | 0 | 0 | |
| DuskToDawn | 861 | 0 | 0 | |
| Skin:Minerva | 710 | 0 | 6 | A skin for mobile interfaces |
| Minerva | 472 | 0 | 6 | A skin for mobile interfaces |
| Dusk | 461 | 2 | 1 | |
| Foreground | 347 | 164 | 1 | A skin that puts your content in the Foreground, based on the Foundation CSS framework. |
| Chameleon | 340 | 273 | 12 | The Chameleon skin uses Twitter Bootstrap 4. It currently features a horizontal navigation menu with dropdowns at the top and a horizontal menu with dropups for the language links at the bottom. |
| Skin:Foreground | 312 | 150 | 1 | A skin that puts your content in the Foreground, based on the Foundation CSS framework. |
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