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Wikipedia, as a website powered by MediaWiki (a wiki software), is a skinnable website, which means the presentation (look and feel) of the pages can be changed.As of January 2024 there are five available skins: Vector 2022 (default on desktop from 2022), Vector 2010 (default on desktop from 2010 to 2021), Minerva Neue (mobile), MonoBook, (default from 2004 to 2009) and Timeless.
These settings alter the Special:Notifications tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See Wikipedia Signpost topic "English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment" for a brief overview. For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see Wikipedia:Notifications § Preferences and settings. Email ...
There are 11 tabs (User profile, Math, Editing, etc.), of which two merit further discussion - the "Skin" tab and the "Gadgets" tab. Skins A MediaWiki skin is a style ...
The Search tab lets you tailor the results from Wikipedia's internal search engine. The fourth of these settings, not completely shown, is a listing of all namespaces that you want to include in all your searches. Figure 20-12. On the top is a search on the word "Crosspool," with the "Context per line" set to 50 (which means 50 characters).
Mobile users (users of the Minerva skin) can visit the settings page, and select "dark" from the list of color options. [1]Users of the Vector 2022 skin can enable dark mode by selecting it in the "Appearance" section of preferences, setting the option to "dark".
As discussed in the previous chapter (the section about skins|), in your My Preferences page, on the Skin tab, you have an option of selecting one of several skins, which rearrange the elements and formatting on each Wikipedia page that you view. The tab has buttons to click to see a preview of each skin, so you can get a clear sense of what a ...
The Cologne Blue skin has an option for a "floating left" quickbar, which causes the navigation links and toolboxes and such to stay in the same position on the screen while you scroll. This provides the same functionality for the Monobook skin (in Mozilla). See meta:Help:User style/floating quickbar.
Wikipedia:Customisation – also covers user names, preferences settings, skins, user scripting, etc. Help:User style – modifying style for accessibility or for additional feature testing. Wikipedia:TemplateStyles – modifying style for advanced visual appearance that can be applied with template.