Dear Jon, That is a great initiative, thank you very much! I always found it a little hard to find MediaWiki skins, hopefully that will be a thing of the past now!
Kilian Am Di., 22. Dez. 2020 um 13:25 Uhr schrieb eQuality Technology < [email protected]>: > This is awesome! Thanks Jon! > > I did notice one minor error: on https://skins.wmflabs.org/?#/add it says > *sicenotice* instead of *sitenotice*. > > Greg > > eQuality Technology > > *Let's work together* > > https://equality-tech.com > follow us: https://twitter.com/eQualityTech > *creators of https://QualityBox.us <https://QualityBox.us> * > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 6:37 PM Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> tldr: If you have built skins or use skins that are not listed on >> MediaWiki.org, please list them [4] and check that they work with current >> MediaWiki.org. If you have always wanted to build a skin try the new tool >> and give me feedback on how you get on! [3]. >> >> Longer version: >> As part of my involvement in the desktop improvements project [1] I with >> the help of many others have been trying to simplify the development of >> skins. >> >> As part of this, much-needed maintenance has occurred in MediaWiki core >> with the intention of making skin development easier. >> >> As a personal goal, I wanted to prototype a tool to showcase the skins >> available in the ecosystem, and finally with the downtime of the holiday >> period (no deploys!) I've finally done that. It allows showcasing [2] and >> building skins [3]. >> >> While building this tool I was surprised to find that excluding forks of >> skins, there are only __55 skins__ listed on MediaWiki.org. Out of those, >> only 38 have been kept up to date. >> >> I can't believe that given the age of this project there are only 38 >> usable skins and I am writing to you in the hope that: >> >> 1) You know of others that can be added to MediaWiki.org in the "Skin" >> namespace [4] Note, any edits to MediaWiki.org will automatically get >> picked up by the tool and listed. >> 2) If you build skins for closed source wikis, please consider publishing >> them over the holiday period if you can! >> 3) If you have fix skins that do not work with latest MediaWiki so I can >> showcase them on the new tool. >> 4) If you are inspired to make a new skin, possibly trying out the >> starter kit tool I have created [3] which will construct a working zip file >> that can be added to your local mediawiki and eventually github/gerrit and >> give me feedback via Phabricator/email/github what can be improved. >> >> ****** >> >> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Desktop_improvements >> [2] https://skins.wmflabs.org/? >> [3] https://skins.wmflabs.org/?#/add >> [4] >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Template%3ASkin%2FSample&title=Skin%3ANewSkin%20&venoscript=1 >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> To unsubscribe, go to: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >
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