Help:Preferences

Preferences (also known as: User preferences) are customization settings for registered users on. They are provided by the special page "Special:Preferences" which can be accessed via the user's links panel at the top-right of the site. Preferences are featured in all versions of MediaWiki and only differ in some points which have been added by the way. But not only the special page gives the ability to costumize a wiki by users: also custom skins or custom modifications of existing skins, which can be written in CSS and/or JS can be used to make this site yours.

Special:Preferences
The special page with the name Preferences is the main feature to customize. Is is splittet into 9 sections, seperated and accessible by content tabs. Each tab hold an own category of options and can be accessed by a left mouse click on the tab. The following tabs are shown on the page:
 * Help:Special:Preferences - Personal settings, such as signature, interface language, etc.
 * Help:Special:Preferences - Everything belonging to the site's appearance, such as the display of images or the chioce of a site skin
 * Help:Special:Preferences - Ability to change date, time and time zone setting
 * Help:Special:Preferences - Preferences belonging to the edit of pages, such as edit-box width/length or toggle of editing features
 * Help:Special:Preferences - Settings for the page of recent changes
 * Help:Special:Preferences - Settings for the watchlist
 * Help:Special:Preferences - Settings for the search
 * Help:Special:Preferences - All other changes which do not belong to any of the categories above, auch as some settings of the comparison of different revisions
 * Help:Special:Preferences - These settings are necessary for using the OpenID feature

Custom JS / CSS
Every registered user on this site can choose his/her personal skin via Special:Preferemces page, but is is possible to create a custom user skin or to modify an existing site skin, too. For that, CSS and JS knowledge is required. features a lot of pre-created appearances, but is might be interresting for some users to create his or her own style for this site amd for those, there is a special feature to do this:
 * 1) Easily locate the skin name you want to modify (for custom skins, it is MySkin. Is is possible that a skinname does not match to its printed description shown on the preferences page!
 * 2) Visite your user page amd choose a subpage name containing the skin name plus the extension of the script taype you want to modify. In fact, is means for CSS changes in MySkin:   or for JS changes in :.
 * 3) After adding content into the code page, choose the modified skin in  -tab of the user preferences page and save the changes. If the skin you modified is already activated while you made the changes,  (the key-combination variates from browser to the other ones).