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Statistics about current skins of /active/ users on the Wikimedia cluster
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Description

Request

What's requested:
Wikimedia wikis have offered – due to historical reasons – a number of skins to be activated.
Under the Preferences > Appearance tab there are four currently visible skins to newly registered users, but there's also 2 hidden ones, while the rollout of Vector 2022 was happening.

Why it's requested:
We're still keeping numerous outdated skins (CologneBlue, Modern, MonoBook) options aside of Vector and it would be important to have a better understanding of our users.
It would be interesting to get the number of active users (maybe something like skin setting and being repeatedly logged in during last 12 months)
A similar request was T147696 several years ago.

When it's requested:
As soon as possible.

Other helpful information:
Most recent analysis: T361638

Acceptance criteria

Determine number of logged-in editors using each skin on 3 wikis: enwiki, eswiki, commonswiki.

  • the skin distribution of editors who made at least 1 edits annually on specific wiki
  • the skin distribution of editors who made at least 5 edits annually on specific wiki
  • the skin distribution of editors who made at least 60 edits annually on specific wiki
  • the skin distribution of editors who made at least 1000 edits in the last 6 months on specific wiki

Results

T414054#11567652
Retrieve data with the code from the previous analysis T361638: link

Event Timeline

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Methodology

The non-default skin status is pulled from user_properties schema for each specific wiki. Additionally, we consider the global preference, which can override the skin setting on a local wiki. The global skin preference is pulled from the global_preferences schema in the centralauth database.

Both skin preference and global preference reflect the status as of the data collection date, which is January 28, 2026.

Editors are pulled from wmf.mediawiki_history schema. We focus on the non-bot users who have made a minimum of 1/5/60/1000 content edits on a specific wiki between 2025-01-01 and 2025-12-31.

Please note that none of the three editor groups mentioned here are identical to the active editors group that we use for measuring core product metrics. The product core metric for active editors is defined as the number of registered users who have made at least 5 content edits across all projects in the given month. (ref). For this analysis, edits are counted exclusively for the specific wiki.

Summary

Please find the full data in this Google Sheet.

Below table shows the skin distribution of editors who made at least 1 edits annually on specific wiki) as of January 28, 2026.

skin_nameEnglish Wikipedia (enwiki)Spanish Wikipedia (eswiki)Wikimedia Commons (commonswiki)
Default skinVector-2022Vector-2022Vector-2022
cologneblue0.04%0.01%0.01%
minerva0.14%0.08%0.03%
modern0.09%0.03%0.03%
monobook1.19%0.56%0.79%
timeless0.32%0.10%0.10%
vector3.30%1.22%1.38%
vector-202294.92%98.00%97.66%

Below table shows the skin distribution of editors who made at least 5 edits annually on specific wiki) as of January 28, 2026.

skin_nameEnglish Wikipedia (enwiki)Spanish Wikipedia (eswiki)Wikimedia Commons (commonswiki)
Default skinVector-2022Vector-2022Vector-2022
cologneblue0.06%0.01%0.01%
minerva0.21%0.18%0.05%
modern0.16%0.09%0.07%
monobook2.03%1.01%1.53%
timeless0.51%0.18%0.16%
vector7.72%3.92%3.29%
vector-202289.32%94.62%94.88%

Below table shows the skin distribution of editors who made at least 60 edits annually on specific wiki) as of January 28, 2026.

skin_nameEnglish Wikipedia (enwiki)Spanish Wikipedia (eswiki)Wikimedia Commons (commonswiki)
Default skinVector-2022Vector-2022Vector-2022
cologneblue0.08%0.02%0.03%
minerva0.28%0.32%0.06%
modern0.26%0.12%0.21%
monobook3.77%1.93%3.81%
timeless0.68%0.22%0.28%
vector18.15%12.50%10.83%
vector-202276.79%84.88%84.77%

Below table shows the skin distribution of editors who made at least 1000 edits annually on specific wiki) as of January 28, 2026.

skin_nameEnglish Wikipedia (enwiki)Spanish Wikipedia (eswiki)Wikimedia Commons (commonswiki)
Default skinVector-2022Vector-2022Vector-2022
cologneblue0.18%0.00%0.09%
minerva0.32%0.43%0.03%
modern0.38%0.00%0.42%
monobook6.92%3.27%7.96%
timeless0.91%0.28%0.33%
vector30.60%30.01%22.48%
vector-202260.68%66.00%68.69%
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