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| 19421 Wikis
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550 Wikis
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3370 Skins
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| Installed on 1+ wikis
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Installed on 5+ wikis
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Default on 1+ wikis
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Default on 5+ wikis
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Most used skins
Note: Only versions of MediaWiki (≥ 1.22) supply data on default and skipped skins. Thus the numbers of wikis using each as default or skipped will be underestimated for skins used on older versions of MediaWiki.
| Skin | Using as default | Installed it | Skipping it | Description | | Vector | 7,433 | 17,184 | 388 | Vector is MediaWiki's current default skin. It was built by the UsabilityInitiative project to replace MonoBook. |
| MonoBook | 2,000 | 15,590 | 156 | MonoBook used to be MediaWiki's default skin before it was replaced by the new Vector skin. |
| Aurora | 426 | 1,320 | 0 | Shiny blue category-oriented skin for ShoutWiki |
| Oasis | 419 | 511 | 238 | Fandom's default MediaWiki layout |
| Hydra Dark | 283 | 298 | 178 | |
| Chameleon | 281 | 363 | 10 | The Chameleon skin uses Twitter Bootstrap 4. It currently features a horizontal navigation menu with dropdowns at the top and a horizontal menu with dropups for the language links at the bottom. |
| Modern | 248 | 14,538 | 181 | Modern is one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It is derived from the MonoBook skin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.24 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| Monaco | 229 | 1,606 | 0 | An easily customizable skin with many premade themes. Port of the Old Wikia skin |
| Fallback | 224 | 5 | 11,928 | This is the skin introduced with MW 1.24 which is used in case no regular skin was installed for the wiki. |
| Foreground | 185 | 409 | 3 | A skin that puts your content in the Foreground, based on the Foundation CSS framework. |
| Hydra | 122 | 195 | 150 | |
| BootstrapMediaWiki | 77 | 92 | 0 | |
| Tweeki | 65 | 156 | 0 | Bootstrap based, fully configurable, especially suitable for wiki-as-a-website |
| Cologne Blue | 60 | 5,230 | 940 | A lightweight skin with minimal formatting |
| Bootstrap | 55 | 216 | 0 | This is a customizable responsive Bootstrap MediaWiki skin. With it, your MediaWiki skin can take advantage of some of the great features from Bootstrap. |
| Bootstrapskin | 49 | 64 | 1 | |
| Metrolook | 48 | 130 | 0 | Custom Metro-styled skin. |
| Moodledocs | 43 | 43 | 0 | |
| Pivot | 40 | 79 | 0 | A mobile skin which "Pivots" seamlessly to any size display. |
| Timeless | 34 | 1,160 | 0 | |
| BlueSpiceSkin | 33 | 49 | 0 | |
| Nimbus | 31 | 1,358 | 0 | |
| Refreshed | 26 | 53 | 2 | A refreshed skin for use on Brickimedia |
| Strapping | 26 | 89 | 1 | Strapping is an elegant, responsive, and friendly starter skin for MediaWiki. Its purpose is to provide a good base to build upon, and was primarily created to provide a great default for wiki-as-a-website — but it works well for standard wikis too. |
| Erudite | 26 | 147 | 0 | |
| Cavendish | 21 | 215 | 0 | This skin is a rework of the skin formerly used at wiki.mozilla.org. It has been modified to work better with new versions of MediaWiki. |
| StrappingAds3 | 20 | 20 | 0 | |
| Medik | 20 | 35 | 0 | MediaWiki skin based on Bootstrap. Developed for WikiSkripta.eu. |
| Darwin | 16 | 24 | 0 | |
| Citizen | 16 | 30 | 1 | A responsive skin developed for the Star Citizen Wiki |
| DarkVector | 16 | 81 | 0 | Vector skin with dark interface |
| Hitchwiki | 14 | 14 | 0 | |
| MediaWiki Bootstrap | 14 | 28 | 0 | |
| Metin2Theme | 12 | 13 | 0 | |
| Liberty | 12 | 14 | 0 | Skin originally designed for 리브레 위키, then used by other wikis |
| VectorIcubeTeam | 12 | 12 | 0 | |
| GuMaxDD | 12 | 132 | 0 | GuMax skin, drop-down menu variant |
| Векторное | 12 | 16 | 0 | |
| ScratchWikiSkin | 12 | 12 | 0 | |
| GuMax | 12 | 142 | 1 | |
| CavendishMW | 11 | 67 | 0 | A MediaWiki skin based on Mozilla's Cavendish skin. |
| Cavendish-MW | 11 | 14 | 0 | |
| WPtouch | 11 | 231 | 0 | |
| MinervaNeue | 11 | 2,883 | 420 | |
| WikiHowSkin | 10 | 11 | 0 | |
| CologneBlue | 10 | 8,421 | 164 | CologneBlue is one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.24 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| Naturkunde | 9 | 10 | 0 | |
| Splash | 9 | 23 | 0 | |
| VectorWikanda | 9 | 9 | 0 | |
| Clean | 7 | 33 | 0 | |
Most installed skins
| Skin | Installed it | Using as default | Skipping it | Description | | Vector | 17,184 | 7,433 | 388 | Vector is MediaWiki's current default skin. It was built by the UsabilityInitiative project to replace MonoBook. |
| MonoBook | 15,590 | 2,000 | 156 | MonoBook used to be MediaWiki's default skin before it was replaced by the new Vector skin. |
| Modern | 14,538 | 248 | 181 | Modern is one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It is derived from the MonoBook skin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.24 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| CologneBlue | 8,421 | 10 | 164 | CologneBlue is one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.24 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| Nostalgia | 6,531 | 1 | 44 | Nostalgia was one of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a skin which looked like Wikipedia did in its first year (2001). It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 but recreated as an separate extension at the same time. |
| Standard | 6,516 | 0 | 42 | Standard was a legacy skin, i.e., it was based on the class SkinLegacy. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| MySkin | 6,507 | 1 | 37 | MySkin was of the skins which is bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a lightweight Monobook skin without CSS. The idea was that the user customises it using user or site CSS. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| Simple | 6,490 | 0 | 42 | Simple was one of the skins which was bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a lightweight skin with a simple white-background sidebar and no top bar and derived from the MonoBook skin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| Chick | 6,488 | 2 | 42 | Chick was one of the skins which was bundled with MediaWiki by default. It was a lightweight Monobook skin with no sidebar, the sidebar links are given at the bottom of the page instead, as in the unstyled MySkin. It was removed from MediaWiki Core in version 1.22 |
| Cologne Blue | 5,230 | 60 | 940 | A lightweight skin with minimal formatting |
| MinervaNeue | 2,883 | 11 | 420 | |
| Minerva | 1,865 | 3 | 0 | A skin for mobile interfaces |
| Monaco | 1,606 | 229 | 0 | An easily customizable skin with many premade themes. Port of the Old Wikia skin |
| Dusk | 1,492 | 1 | 1 | |
| Gamepress | 1,482 | 2 | 0 | |
| DeskMessMirrored | 1,475 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bouquet | 1,471 | 1 | 0 | |
| DuskToDawn | 1,471 | 1 | 1 | |
| Truglass | 1,387 | 1 | 0 | |
| Nimbus | 1,358 | 31 | 0 | |
| Aurora | 1,320 | 426 | 0 | Shiny blue category-oriented skin for ShoutWiki |
| Timeless | 1,160 | 34 | 0 | |
| FandomDesktop | 908 | 0 | 0 | Fandom Desktop skin |
| Oasis | 511 | 419 | 238 | Fandom's default MediaWiki layout |
| Foreground | 409 | 185 | 3 | A skin that puts your content in the Foreground, based on the Foundation CSS framework. |
| Chameleon | 363 | 281 | 10 | The Chameleon skin uses Twitter Bootstrap 4. It currently features a horizontal navigation menu with dropdowns at the top and a horizontal menu with dropups for the language links at the bottom. |
| WikiaMobile | 349 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hydra Dark | 298 | 283 | 178 | |
| WPtouch | 231 | 11 | 0 | |
| Bootstrap | 216 | 55 | 0 | This is a customizable responsive Bootstrap MediaWiki skin. With it, your MediaWiki skin can take advantage of some of the great features from Bootstrap. |
| Cavendish | 215 | 21 | 0 | This skin is a rework of the skin formerly used at wiki.mozilla.org. It has been modified to work better with new versions of MediaWiki. |
| Hydra | 195 | 122 | 150 | |
| BlueBird | 158 | 0 | 0 | |
| Toro | 156 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tweeki | 156 | 65 | 0 | Bootstrap based, fully configurable, especially suitable for wiki-as-a-website |
| AdBird | 155 | 0 | 0 | |
| Erudite | 147 | 26 | 0 | |
| GuMax | 142 | 12 | 1 | |
| GuMaxDD | 132 | 12 | 0 | GuMax skin, drop-down menu variant |
| Metrolook | 130 | 48 | 0 | Custom Metro-styled skin. |
| BootstrapMediaWiki | 92 | 77 | 0 | |
| Strapping | 89 | 26 | 1 | Strapping is an elegant, responsive, and friendly starter skin for MediaWiki. Its purpose is to provide a good base to build upon, and was primarily created to provide a great default for wiki-as-a-website — but it works well for standard wikis too. |
| DarkVector | 81 | 16 | 0 | Vector skin with dark interface |
| Pivot | 79 | 40 | 0 | A mobile skin which "Pivots" seamlessly to any size display. |
| GMWFreeBlue | 78 | 7 | 1 | |
| Pixeled | 74 | 4 | 0 | |
| GMWFreeGreen | 68 | 0 | 0 | |
| Roundedblue | 68 | 0 | 0 | |
| CavendishMW | 67 | 11 | 0 | A MediaWiki skin based on Mozilla's Cavendish skin. |
| MistyLook | 64 | 2 | 0 | |