https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51912
Quim Gil <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #7 from Quim Gil <[email protected]> --- This would be useful, yes. Note that 3rd party wikis look a lot like Wikipedia not only because both use the same Vector skin by default, but al because it is damn complex for an average 3rd party to depart from it: * Configuring or customizing Vector skin isn't trivial. Likely customizations like how to apply fixed width, change colors, change the header/footer, modify the size of fonts... are not documented and require to look deep in the CSS to see what needs to be changed at MediaWiki:Common.css. You may need to modify the skin itself, and forking Vector and take care of diffs when upgrading is not something most people want to do. * Selecting a different skin is even more complicated for an average 3rd party. There are basically no skins out there that would give the confidence in terms of stability, adoption and current support. When you use a MediaWiki skin found somewhere you are basically on your own, not even able to know whether such skin covers Vector's functionality (e.g. does it work in older MS Explorer versions). Therefore yes, a custom look & feel for Wikimedia sites is one step. But actually the right solution is to provide the enablers for proper MediaWiki customization. Look at http://wordpress.org or http://drupal.org . They don't look much different than their software out of the box, but the difference is that Wordpress and Drupal admins can start customizing right away, and get a very different looking site wits a few simple steps. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
