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[Misses Kennedy]

Hi there!

I am also moving our Wiki from Wikia : http://weltenbibliothek.wikia.com/wiki/Weltenbibliothek To Wikii: http://weltenbibliothek.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page

Now, what I wish to know is how I can customize the skin (you know, page colors, background image and so on.) I think that this has to be done in the monobook.js. Problem is, I am really not used to scripting so I would like to know if there is any monobook script template I can just alter with my own colors and image links? Is it also possible to adjust system messages and Texts via MediaWiki pages? Thanks for any hint and help

[Sove]

You need to alter monobook.css not monobook.js

You can find a great css tutorial from w3schools.

[Misses Kennedy]

Well, I do not have the time to do a complete Study of CSS scripting, really. So isn't there an existing css I simply can alter? Maybe just the source code of the now active default css?

Other thing: Our Wiki is in German. How can I change the names of the links in the navigation boxes? (changing them into German)

[gin-san]

there is already a link on http://hub.wikkii.com/wiki/Hub#For_Advanced_Users that leads to the monobook css settings.

you can change your own personal "Preferences" --> "User Profile" --> "Language" to display the language you prefer, but it is only for your own viewing, not for the whole site. Anyone not registered will still see the wiki in the default language which is English,  I believe.
You may have to modify the LocalSettings.php

Code:

$wgLanguageCode = "en";

which wikkii.com domains do not have access to.
Please check with Wikkii themselves, or ask whether they can enable the LanguageSelector extension for Farmer wikis.


P/S - wow, your wikia site takes ages to load, the wikkii versions loads so much faster 

[Misses Kennedy]

TRhanbks Gi-san, I tried out the linked CSS and first did just change the background-image. Unfortunately, it didn't work :-( Yes, I will ask the Wikii Staff if they can adjust the language for me.
Yes, the Wikia Site takes a hell of a time to load and that's also die to the overload of ad and useless modules. Wikia has become a self-purposed platform where user's content is just to fill the space that is left between their own modules and ads. That's why we want to leave.

[gin-san]

can you show a link to the page where you said there is a problem?
and let us know briefly what you want to achieve, no guarantee we can solve your problem for you, but perhaps we can give some suggestions where to go from there

erm, .... btw, you are not supposed to copy EVERYTHING from the link to your site, LOL
only those parameters that you need to achieve the look you want

if you take a look at http://hub.wikkii.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css, I have only included the relevant codes, short and sweet, which is to achieve a no sidebar-logo look for the hub.

[Misses Kennedy]

Hi Gin-San, Well there you can see what complete and utter noob I am when it comes to anything that does so much as look like scripting. *Sigh*
That's the reason why I didn't apply for the advanced hosting, although that it would have been the choice to make, due to all the extras our Weltenbibliothek must have.
basically, what I would like to do, is to replace the grey header background with this file:
http://weltenbibliothek.wikkii.com/w/images/weltenbibliothek/uploads/7/76/Back.jpg
And them, I would like all the pages in the wiki being in the color #B59953 instead of white and the Links in #1A3300

[gin-san]

the relevant codes you may wish to look at (going back to http://wikidev.net/skins/monobook/main.css) are perhaps the following:

background image and colour, replace the "url" with the FULL URL of your image and replace the hexdecimal colour of your choice:

Code:

body {
    font: x-small sans-serif;
    background: #f9f9f9 url("headbg.jpg") 0px 0px no-repeat;
    color: Black;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

text colour including links, since you did not mention what kind of links:

Code:

a {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #002bb8;
    background: none;
}
a:visited { color: #5a3696; }
a:active { color: #ffa500; }
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
a.stub { color: #772233; }
a.new,
#p-personal a.new { color:#ba0000; }
a.new:visited,
#p-personal a.new:visited { color:#a55858; }

After updating the css file, you will need to follow the instructions like ctrl-F5 to clear the page cache e before the css effects can be seen.

[Misses Kennedy]

Okaaaay...this worked so far.Many thanks! Now, all what I would need is the code that controls the color of the pages (background of articles)

[gin-san]

u seem to have picked up fast
btw, as I mentioned before, only copy those that you need to amend over to your own monobook.css (or common.css if you want it to appear all the time), if the margin and padding are still the same, no need to copy over, unless you intend to change them later

if you wish to copy over code that you wish to keep for reference, you can comment them out by adding "//" double slash for each line to be commented out, or opening "/*" and closing "*/" to comment out 1 big block, e.g.

Code:

.text-shdw2 {
//color: #fff;
//background: #666;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px #E6FF99, 0px 0px 3px #E6FF99, 0px 0px 3px #E6FF99;
}

commenting out the code means the computer will not process it, and therefore no potential conflict or unexpected results will arise.

the next thing you are asking for will be tricky 'cos there are many "boxes" floating among the article side of the page, you may end up with many white boxes (white being the default) on many different pages, including the change history page.

the code you are looking for is probably this:

Code:

#content {
    background: White;
}