Forum:Changes to skin preferences

Hi everyone,

We are making a change to the skin chooser this week and we want to let you know what will be happening. Currently we support browsing the site with either Monaco or Monobook. However, the skin chooser in Special:Preferences presents a number of unsupported skins which we are no longer testing to ensure compatibility with new software. These skins also don't support a customizable personal sidebar, broadcast messaging, spotlights and a number of other important tools. For these reasons, we will be removing Quartz, CologneBlue, Modern, MySkin, Simple, and Standard from the skin chooser by the end of the week.

If you are currently using an unsupported skin, you can continue to do so. In addition, if you want to see what a page looks like in an unsupported skin, you can still append ?useskin=fooskin to the end of a page url. However, if you switch to Monaco or Monobook using the skin chooser, you will not be able to return to using any of the skins mentioned above.

Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 01:57, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Comments

 * The Quartz was long overdue the rest is more of a nostalgic of what a wiki can offer...
 * But I'm in a paradox with MySkin, at the same time I understand and I don't understand why it's removal.
 * I dont understand because the idea of MySkin is a blank skin where one can code its own skin via CSS. And the possibility of freedom is being remove.
 * I do understand because many of wikias JS inserted features are CSS configure inside the JS that insert them and some in CSS main pages. sometimes giving headaches to tweak them with other skin modifications.


 * Why is it Monaco and Monobook are both supported? A bunch of wikis customize one much more than the other and the result is the users who prefer the other not getting the full experience.   06:59, 20 May 2009 (UTC)