Wikipedia:Glossary/User interface

Glossary of terms related to the user interface!

skin

The skin is the overall layout of a page. There are a few different skins (you can find them in Special:Preferences). The default skin is [Vector]. The previous default skin was [Monobook].

WikiEditor

This is the "new" (default) edit toolbar, called the 'enhanced editing toolbar' in the user preferences. mw:Extension:WikiEditor

old ("classic") toolbar

This was the default editing toolbar from 20XX to 20XX.

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edittools

The name comes from the MediaWiki message name: MediaWiki:Edittools. It's blank by default, but wikis often customize it using the CharInsert extension.

CharInsert

Old extension that places some JavaScript magic ... mw:Extension:CharInsert