[Commons-l] Monobook.css update?

[Monahon, Peter B.]

> Simetrical wrote: You seem to be confusing 
> two issues: the ability to edit styles from
> within MediaWiki, and the ability to do it 
> without technical know-how ...

Peter Blaise responds: Actually, I am trying to rise above both issues.  

There was a call for putting energies into redesigning monobook.css for "commons" (to differentiate it visually so contributors knew they were at "commons" and not another wiki - apparently there is at least one person who got confused and wants the on-screen interface design to help distinguish between wikis for them).  

In response, I suggested that instead, put energies into maturing the MediaWiki interface itself to become the place where ALL configuration is done.  

In other words, NOT as much a cry for dumbing down the need for *.css skills (which MUST die anyway, eventually), but a cry for growing the sysops/bureaucrat/admin/developer/registereduser/bot/user/reader/printer/yada,yada,yada interface to take over more and more control of anything and everything anyone does in a MediaWiki.

Otherwise, we're just rearranging the deck chairs.

-- Peter Blaise
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