It might be easier to revamp the skin system if there were fewer skins to port.
- Trevor On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:48 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Tomasz Finc wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Why is Cologne Blue still in core? > > > >A good time to revist > > > >https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_skins > > > >and re-run > > > >https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_skins/stats > > Tomasz' links are relevant, but it's on the associated talk page that > there's a hint of the real reason this happened: Cologne Blue was > originally slated for execution, but MatmaRex (an active developer) > stepped up and agreed to maintain it. > > Stats would be helpful here, though I disagree with the general premise: > most of the old skins were fine to kill because they sucked, they weren't > used very much, and/or they weren't maintained. However that does _not_ > mean that we should only have one or two skins. Instead, the skinning > system should just suck a lot less: it should be easier to add or remove a > pre-made skin, it should be easier to customize a skin (site-wide), it > should be easier to create a new skin, it should be easier for users to > change their skin, and any additional skins we ship with MediaWiki should > be more attractive and should cleanly support extensions. > > In addition to unfairly limiting user choice, site configurability, and > site customizability, the current skins system also encourages confusion > between Wikipedia and non-Wikimedia wikis. In other words, if it weren't > so dreadful to change MediaWiki's skin, there would presumably be reduced > user confusion. As it is, almost every MediaWiki wiki looks the same. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
