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Choose the "skin", or "theme" of how Wikipedia is displayed. Access your Custom CSS or Custom JavaScript for individual skins and for global settings that apply to all skins. If the links are blue, you have created these special pages and this is a quick way to access and edit them.
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.
This tab has four settings, counting that last set of checkboxes as one setting, as seen in Figure 20-11. These settings affect what happens when you use Wikipedia's internal search engine. (For why you may not want to use that engine for searches, see the section about searching Wikipedia.) Hits per page isn't as useful as it sounds. Only the ...
A MediaWiki skin is a style of page display. There are differences in the HTML code the system produces (but probably not in the page body), and also different style sheets are used.
A light-on-dark color scheme (dark mode, night mode) is available to Wikipedia's smartphone apps and website (for users using the default skins) since July 2024.. In addition to this there is a gadget on English Wikipedia, and various volunteer-written CSS files that allow customization for logged-in users.
As of early January 2023, the skin was the default on more than 300 projects of various sizes, accounting for about 1.5 billion page views per month. Before the deployment on English Wikipedia, it was the most popular non-default skin, with more active editors using it than any other non-default skin (e.g., Monobook, Timeless).
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.
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.