David Gerard wrote: >A few people on rationalwiki.org have been muttering about doing a >customised Vector skin. > >The trouble with Vector is that, as I understand it, it's an odd >melange of extension and skin, with functionality that should be in >one being in the other, both ways. > >I also understand that there are plans to refactor it to be sensibly >organised with the right functionality in the right place. (Though I >have no idea if there is actually anyone assigned to such a task.) > >Is this the case? If not, what is? What's the present and future of >Vector?
Several people (myself included) railed against having both a skin and a MediaWiki extension named "Vector", but we were ultimately unsuccessful in avoiding the creation of the current clusterfuck. Relevant (current) bugs: * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45051 "Phase out the Vector extension; merge the good parts into core" * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43689 "Implement "Templates used on this page" collapsing below edit window and the rest of footer cleanup module in core" * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45977 "Better, central default for MediaWiki:Edithelppage" * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42630 "Implement English Wikipedia-only enhancements for other Wikimedia wikis (tracking)" I believe the Wikimedia Foundation would like to eventually phase-out the Vector skin in favor of the Athena skin (cf. <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena>). I recently tripped across <https://wikitech-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/> which is using an interesting skin, but I'm not sure which. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
