John, This is rather just a curious note, while i was going back and forward between skins since im checking colors, i notice there is no link with (preview) for the customs (neither quartzs or monaco) so some one that wants to know how the wikis custom looks it will not be able, i know experts wiki users can add "?useskin=monaco&usetheme=custom" (without quotes) and will see it but not every one knows that.
Would it be a good idea to put a link beside the *"See custom wiki skins*(recommended) "? Ciz 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 >
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