Hi, Good idea. Chameleon is great (also because of the nice Bootstrap styling that becomes available on all pages). I am using it right now to build a site (to be published soon).
A big advantage with Chameleon is that most customizations happen in CSS or by inserting HTML into the page through configuration files. so there are fewer dependencies on how MW does their skinning in PHP -- assuming that Chameleon is always updated to support this properly. My only concern would be that Chameleon is still classified Beta. It would be good to know if we can hope for future support for this if we switch now. Cheers, Markus On 16.10.2014 19:52, James HK wrote: > Hi, > > I'm calling for some opinions on replacing the "old" Vector skin on > smw.org with something fresh. Stephan in his relentless pursuit of > making MediaWiki more usable to non-Wikipedia users created the > Chameleon skin [0] which seems more suitable to those who want to use > MW/SMW in different environments. > > SMW no longer tries to be a product that seeks to fulfil requirements > from either WMF or Wikipedia to be used as encyclopaedic semantic > content management (that's now the job of Wikidata/Wikibase) therefore > using the "Vector" skin somehow appears to be outdated by trying to > look like the good old Wikipedia site. > > Furthermore, MW 1.24 (to be released soon) made some changes on how > skins are deployed [1] and it might be a good time to say farewell to > the "old" skin and rediscover SMW's identity by changing its > appearance. > > [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Chameleon > [1] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24#Skins_no_longer_loaded_after_upgrade.3F > > Cheers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. > Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
