Hi,
To enable people to write their own skin, without having to overwrite monobook's settings, I've added a new skin called MySkin. It's using an empty default CSS and gets all its customization from User:someone/myskin.css
A five-minute mockup CSS based on http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/074/074.css&page=4 is at http://mediawiki.mormo.org/index.php/User:JeLuF/myskin.css and looks like this: http://mediawiki.mormo.org/images/1/15/EgyptianStyle.png
(it's really no production quality skin, just a small proof-of-concept)
Best regards,
JeLuF
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