On 2013-12-09 5:03 PM, "K. Peachey" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Subject: [Bug 58235] New: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and
> Wikimedia site Special:Preferences for new user
> accounts<
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> Date: 2013-12-09 20:27:15 GMT (35 minutes ago)
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> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58235
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>        Web browser: ---
>             Bug ID: 58235
>            Summary: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and Wikimedia
>                     site Special:Preferences for new user accounts
>            Product: Wikimedia
>            Version: wmf-deployment
>           Hardware: All
>                 OS: All
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: Unprioritized
>          Component: Site requests
>           Assignee: wikibugs-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org
>           Reporter: jared.zimmerman <at> wikimedia.org
>                 CC: benapetr <at> gmail.com,
>                     bugzilla+org.wikimedia <at> tuxmachine.com,
>                     dereckson <at> espace-win.org, greg <at> wikimedia.org
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>                     tomasz <at> twkozlowski.net, wikimedia.bugs <at>
snowolf.eu
>     Classification: Unclassified
>    Mobile Platform: ---
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> To reduce the support burden on foundation developers and designers when
> creating new features or improving existing ones, skin selection and
related
> preferences should be removed for newly created accounts and the default
skin
> (currently vector) used for all new accounts.
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> A new access point for custom css/js should be added if necessary.
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I think no sums up my view on this pretty well.

Well its fine to make things fit best with vector, any feature that goes in
core* should look acceptable in all skins. This seems like an attempt to
bypass that requirement

*in my dream world I would say wmf exts too :)

-bawolff
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