Forum:Monobooks and licenses

Hi, I'm wondering about these "monobook" pages and what they're for, but guessing at the words in the code, I'm guessing it provides possible colorations and shortcut buttons for browsing a wiki? The gist of it is, I'm good at learning coding stuff from copying the code down I see somewhere and seeing what it does, then goofing around with it. This is especially easy on a wiki, so I was going to just steal someone else's monobook subpage and mess with it until I got what I was cool with.

I don't understand the licenses though. If I just copy form someone else, do I need to attribute the original version to them or what? I'd assume all text contributions are GFDL, but I'm not completely clear on the license.

Also, is there a starter page for actually setting up the use of the page (if setting it up is even neessary) on Wikia or Wikipedia or meta? I'm sure it won't be difficult, bu I don't even have the first clue. If it's unclear what I mean, it probably means I'm just overcomplicating things :-\