Let me draw your attention to three GSoC proposals trying to improve the
current situation with MediaWiki skins. They didn't come from our list of
featured projects,but they point to problems the community has
acknowledged, and so far they are responding well to feedback. Your
attention and help is welcome.
Sorted by date:
A modern, scalable and attractive skin for MediaWiki, by Jack Phoenix
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix/A_modern,_scalable_and_att…
Isarra and Emufarmers are volunteering as mentors. All the basics seem to
be in place, more scrutiny is welcomed.
Separating skins from core MediaWiki, by Bartosz Dziewoński
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Matma_Rex/Separating_skins_from_core_Me…
No mentors assigned yet, Jon Robson is volunteering. More than classical
mentors, this proposal needs explicit community consensus, and a clear
backing from MatmaRex's fellow Vector maintaners: Trevor Parscal, Roan
Kattouw, Timo Tijhof. In fact, one of these (or someone else with +2 amb
familiarity with skins) should be a co-mentor to offer a third pair of eyes
to the plans and the code reviews.
Frontend for Vector skin CSS customizations, by Ioannis Protonotarios
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Protnet/Frontend_for_Vector_skin_CSS_cu…
No mentors assigned, and nobody is volunteering so far. The proposal is
receiving good feedback from known experts in that area. While the previous
two candidates are already maintainers in the areas they are proposing to
work, and while Ioannis provides details about his experience, he needs
mentors happy to evaluate him with microtasks and tough questions.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil