The original version of Dantman's port preserved the Wikia button layout and retained most of the CSS of the original Wikia skin. I have removed some of the original functionality (such as the most of the original Wikia button interface appearance), preferring instead to allow the default Monobook/Vector CSS be used instead, as well as including compatibility patches for the WikiEditor extension.
Unlike Dantman's port, which tried to port almost all of the original skin behavior intact, my skin fork is focused on compatibility with current versions of MediaWiki and its extensions, as the stock version has interface errors "out of the box", and since I have effectively removed most of the original Wikia button code, it made more sense to make a fork than to call this a bug fix of the original, especially since some of the changes effectively change the skin to have a more Vector/Monobook like appearance. > From: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 18:14:15 +1000 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Have released a modified version of the Monaco > skin > > Is there any reason in particular you forked it instead of submitting > patches? > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Arcane 21 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have just finished making a fork of Daniel Friesen (Dantman's) port of > > the Monaco skin for anyone who likes using the skin but has found it has > > display errors when used with certain extensions (like WikiEditor), > > especially on the latest versions of MediaWiki. This forked version has > > several edits to make it more compatible with more recent versions of > > MediaWiki, mostly CSS tweaks and a compatibility patch for users of the > > WikiEditor extension. > > > > I'm not very experienced with GitHub, but I have tested the project linked > > below and it works fine for me, so I would like to share my fork with the > > MediaWiki community: > > > > https://github.com/Arcane21/monaco-port > > > > I hope it was not inappropriate to use this mailing list to share this, so > > if it was, I apologize, but I thought this might benefit the MediaWiki > > community, and I hope it proves useful. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
