The default for Tech.wikia.com, already heavily customized. -Timothy
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:09 PM, JohnQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > small correction... for heavily customized wikis, you can just add > "?useskin=monaco&usetheme=custom" (without quotes) to the end of any > page url to preview it. Right now the skin chooser lets admins set > "custom" but that sets it for the whole site... this way you can preview > without doing that. > > Thanks, > John Q. > > > > > JohnQ wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Last Friday we made Monaco the default on 1500 of the smallest wikis so > > that we could test it out in a variety of environments. We found a few > > issues that we've been working to fix before making it more generally > > available. I'm happy to announce that Monaco is now available in your > > skin preferences so that you can check out your wiki in this new skin. > > We consider this much more a successor to monobook and hope you like it. > > > > In the next few days, unless we find any blocking issues, all wikis that > > currently have a Quartz default will be changed to a Monaco default. If > > you want to switch it back, you can via the skin chooser. For the wikis > > with fairly heavy customization (ffxi, marveldatabase, dcdatabase, > > wookieepedia, etc.), there should already be a custom version of Monaco. > > To check it out in advance just select "Monaco - custom" for your > > personal skin preference (you may need to un-check "see custom" so that > > the overall wiki setting isn't overriding your personal choice). > > > > Some wikis have already set Monaco as the default skin by themselves: > > http://muppet.wikia.com (admins, just go to skin preferences, scroll to > > the bottom to "Admin options" and you can set it there, too). > > > > There is a page here: > > http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Monaco_Skin_Customization that talks in > > more depth about how to customize Monaco. > > There is a page here: http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/New_Skin_Chooser > > that talks about the skin chooser in more depth if you have questions > > about that. > > > > One nice thing about Monaco is that you can create your own personal > > sidebar and toolbox links (see the customization page for how to do that). > > > > Please take a look at your wiki with Monaco and let us know if you find > > any issues. > > > > Thanks > > John Q. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
