On 27 March 2014 17:20, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This was designed primarily with Wikimedia readers in
mind, but this is
extremely minimal stylistically. The typography has no loud personality
that is so unique to Wikimedia sites that it that prevents or discourages
use by someone say, installing a new MediaWiki instance. In the past, we've
discussed the idea of providing either a specific Wikimedia skin or a
general MediaWiki skin we don't use at WMF. The discussion about that is at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51912
Speaking as a tarball user, I'd rather the stuff I use have WMF
interested in its maintenance :-) Stuff that isn't tends to bitrot.
Making Vector more easily skinnable would help A LOT, fwiw. If we want
the various WMF sites to maintain distinctness from third-party
installations, best way would be to make it really easy to do so.
Heck, some third-party sites get really eyegougingly horrible already
...
- d.