Wikipedia:Customisation

In addition, you can customise the way that your signature appears when you post a comment on a discussion page.

You should always sign your posts on talk pages. Signatures are the text that appears before the timestamp when you put ~~~~ on a page. Signatures are customised using "" under "User profile"; consider these guidelines when customising your signature.

Nickname ()

If something goes wrong and your signature stops working, see .

The link, visible to logged-in editors, allows you to change a large number of options. There are 11 tabs (User profile, Math, Editing, etc.), of which two merit further discussion - the "Skin" tab and the "Gadgets" tab.

The default is the Vector skin. There are a variety of user-made skins available for you to .

The special page offers a preview of the various skins for the Main page. This is not exactly interesting for typical articles, therefore here's a list of previews for this page:

To test other pages replace in the URL. For modern browsers the default vector offers a wide range of user customisations.

Here's a table linking the raw CSS and JS for various skins, see also Help:User style for the .

These pages are named after the skins. The personal skin file names must be written in all lower-case and without any spaces to work properly. (While the default skin files have the first letter in upper-case.)

 

Placing {{}} on a page, adds links to switch between different skins easily. This is meant for test pages, but not for articles (or other pages in article namespace). Below the links created by the template:

There are many user-made tweaks that allow for easier and quicker editing. These often only work on specific skins. Almost all work on Monobook (the old default) and many have been tested on the new default (Vector), but exercise caution. If you're using a different skin, you should be aware that some user scripts may not work with that other skin.

Many user scripts can be implemented simply by checking a box in the Gadgets tab of "my preferences" (see above). For the remaining ones, you implement them by adding them to the appropriate personal JavaScript page. For example, for editor XYZ, using the default Vector skin, the page to be edited (and created, if necessary) would be User:XYZ/vector.js. Such pages can only be edited by the owner of that userspace (in this case, XYZ, regardless of who created the page) and by admins.

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