Board Thread:Ask the Staff/@comment-24155515-20150901020602

Or a theme that looks good with the text and/or background colors that exist in Monobook? Heck, even just a plain black-and-white theme, even. A lot of edits that are made to the default skin keep seeming to have unintentional "leak" into Monobook, where they may look bad or even make text hard or impossible to read.

Take for example, this: http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Steven_Universe_Wiki?useskin=monobook

A change was made to the main page (or a template it uses) that removed the dark background on the left side in Monobook, making large chunks of it impossible to read without highlighting the page with one's mouse (a problem that isn't occurring in Oasis (but is in Monobook for some reason I don't quite understand) and even if it did affect Oasis, it wouldn't matter because the theme is dark). The same sort of problem used to occur with all article comments here, but that's been fixed sometime over the summer.

In the other direction, take a look at the quote boxes here: http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:271253?useskin=monobook

They aren't impossible to read, but the contrast is... not good? It looks fine in the default skin, because the text is white, but it's black in Monobook (and it wouldn't be smart to change ALL text in Monobook to white with its current backgrounds because of the initial issue noted above). Viewing previews when making topics like this in Monobook have the same contrast problem as the quotes.

I know not a lot of people probably use Monobook, but I thought it important to suggest the change because some people who frequent this wiki probably do use Monobook either for personal preference or because they can't really use Oasis (I'm in the latter category; I find the skin distracting and it taxes my computer in a way Monobook doesn't). I'd change it myself, but Mediawiki pages are limited to admins when it comes to editing. (I'm also not that versed in css, which is why I don't just make a personal css page here--along with the fact that this issue may be affecting more than just me so I thought it prudent to address it at the source.) 